New Mexico is a state in the Southwestern United States; its capital is Santa Fe, which was founded in 1610 as capital of Nuevo México, while its largest city is Albuquerque with its accompanying metropolitan area. It is one of the Mountain States and shares the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. New Mexico is the 47th state of America.

10/11 to 10/15/20    Hello Santa Fe, New Mexico

Santa Fe, sits in the Sangre de Cristo foothills. It’s renowned for its Pueblo-style architecture and as a creative arts hotbed. Founded as a Spanish colony in 1610, it has at its heart the traditional Plaza. 
 

Hooray Beer!

Our home for the next 5 days 

Desert Dry

Thanks Mom & Tim for sending us off with a great bottle of wine - YUM

Day drive along the Rio Grand to Taos

Such pretty colors along the water...

Twilight Zone....................

Did you know this is the tenth highest bridge in the United States?

The Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, locally known as the "Gorge Bridge" or the "High Bridge", is a steel deck arch bridge across the Rio Grande Gorge 10 miles northwest of Taos, New Mexico. Roughly 600 ft above the Rio Grande. 

It's WAY down there!

The  Mighty Rio Grande

San Francisco de Asís Mission Church is a historic and architecturally significant building on the main plaza of Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico. Originally the center of a small Mexican and Indian 18th Century agricultural community. Built between 1772 and 1816 

Would have loved to have seen the inside.....Thank you, Covid...

Carson National Forest

A day in downtown Santa Fe ~ though most things were closed, it was fun walking around.

Love the Adobe look

Santa Fe is a meca for local artists

Santa Fe = A shoppers Paradise - I have a lot of friends that would love to shop around here..

Cathedral Basilica St. Francis of  Assisi

The Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, is a former Roman Catholic church that is now used as a museum and a wedding chapel. It is known for its unusual helix-shaped spiral staircase.

Loretta Chapel and it's most unique Choir Loft staircase

According to the version of events passed down by the Sisters of Loretto, multiple builders were consulted but were not able to find a workable solution due to the confined quarters. In response, the nuns prayed for nine straight days to St. Joseph, the patron saint of carpenters. On the last day of the novena, a mysterious stranger appeared and offered to build the staircase. He worked alone using only a few simple hand tools and disappeared afterwards without collecting his pay or the Sisters learning his identity!

A beautiful chapel to get married in.

Neither Scott or I are master carpenter's but to think back around 1877 & 1881 and only using wooden pegs and glue rather than nails or other hardware; then making 2 full turns all without the support of a center pole. Scott said this is some tricky mathematics!  A beautiful sight to behold
 

Love the Adobe style architecture 

A little fun artwork

Distribution across America

Rock formation amazement

Fall Colors

Welcome to Cerrillos

Let's get some rocks to make jewelry

The 3 types of rocks we purchased - hopefully we will be able to show the end product of handmade jewelry - stay tuned for our Yuma adventure! 

"I see dead people...." (Sixth Sense viewers)

Cerrillos was a quaint little town

Hey Scott, let's go to New Mexico to attend the Ballon Fiesta in 2020!

Since this was the reason for heading to New Mexico ( It was cancelled due to this thing called Covid) Let's find somewhere else to visit....  How about the colorful little town of Madrid?

Where they filmed some of the Wild Hogs movie...

Great Movie......

At least we got to view a few  balloons while departing New Mexico...  LoL

So, now it's on to Casa Grande, AZ for a few months!