My poor little blog. I’ve neglected you so. I’ve rekindled my love affair with Flickr and it’s become my new blog. I’ve had a lot on my mind recently – but haven’t been able to organize things in my head well enough to put them out to the world. The biggest thing is a potential move. The husband has a job interview if West Virginia and I’m trying to ignore that fact and just go about my business. And thinking about what I really want my life to be about – what is my “Dream Life”?
We went to the little town of Madrid, NM on Saturday. It’s an old mining town that was abandoned when the mine shut down, and was then rediscovered in the 60s/70s by hippies and artists and bikers. It is on the Turquoise Trail that runs from Albuquerque to Santa Fe. It is now half artist colony/half roughneck and is totally fun. We ate at the Mine Shaft a biker bar/local watering hole. We had a great lunch, listened to a cool singer/songwriter, Katie locked herself in the stall of the bathroom (just to add a little excitement to our day!) and had a fabulous time before heading back to Burque and then off to a party. A full day indeed! BTW, Katie is being a sheep in the photo – not sure why!
Oh yes – and Madrid was featured in the movie Wild Hogs!!
Check out more of Mosaic Monday here!
We’ve had a very arty day so far. Went to the Albuquerque Museum, it was Family Day so Katie and Will both made art and Will and I went on a special “kid’s tour” of their current exhibition. Then we went to the Open Space Visitor Center and checked out David Cramer’s exhibit of wild horse photography, and then we went to the Factory on Fifth for their art opening. I was cool to see some familiar names of people that show or have shown at The Cow, and some intense work by artists I’ve never seen before. Very inspiring.
At the Factory there was a tree decorated with lots of big silver balls, and I chose those for my second self-portrait of the year.
We went to Old Town last night to see the luminaria there – it was a beautiful display! The whole neighborhood becomes bathed in a golden light. Merry Christmas, everyone!
Found a cool new party to join – it’s called Mosaic Monday and you can go here to see more mosaics! Mine are all from our visit to the “River of Lights” at the Botanic Gardens – our first time doing this and it will definitely be on our list for next year!!
and the most amazing things come up. I took this photo at the Harwood Museum in Taos earlier this year and posted about our trip there on my blog. Now this photo is on one of the artists website. With a photo credit. Kinda cool, kinda weird.
