Leaving the "big city" of Taos for the desert and camping. The hummingbirds here are buzzing furiously around their feeders and the dogs are seeing me off. I guess my blog will just have to be in a retrospective order as I am still without photos, but I will catch you up.
I am heading out to the Abiquiu area made famous by Georgia O'Keefe. I will hike where she hiked and see what she saw. She was quite an Adventure Girl, often sleeping out in the desert to catch the light at all hours of the day. Painting, painting until she felt she had captured what she could. I will look up into the New Mexico night sky, uncluttereded by light pollution and see the same stars that she saw, along with centuries of Native American adventure girls before her. I wonder what I will bring home from it. Cliff dwellings hidden all over also draw my attention. I love to stand where others stood.
Well, the tent is packed and It's time to hit the farmers market before leaving town, for eggs and the early veggies. Everything tastes better closer to the source and cooked outdoors. I feel the flutter that precedes another adventure, although as adventurous as I am I will admit to some trepidation about snakes. Having already encountered a large one right in Taos, I hope the next time you hear from me I have stories to tell, but not of the serpentine variety. To the desert.