Santa Fe has many out door art sculptures. I miss living there!

Favorite Places

Here I am in my favorite place: A Bookstore

Yeah just give me a strong cup o' Earl Grey and a couple hours to roam the stacks and you have one happy Diva.

When I live in San Fran we had a corner book store called Christophers. It was so tiny and so filled with books and other good stuff. It was also a dog neighborhood so whenever anyone got a new dog they would go there and they would take a pic of your pup and post it on the front door. You could come back a few months later and ooh and ahh at how big your dog had gotten.

They also had poetry readings. I really miss that. Poetry is one art that needs to be read aloud and preferably by the author.

I went to my first open poetry reading the other night. Actually it was a poetry potluck! I read a couple of my poems for the first time ever to a group of strangers. I guess I was a Poetry Virgin. It felt kinda scary fun to read them. There were some good poets there and I just had the best time and the food was damn good too. There were all ages of poets there from 20 up to 83 years old. Simply fascinating.

Here is a link to a nice place I have found for poetry and pictures, Princess Haiku:

:http://princesshaiku.blogspot.com/

Little Tree in the Big Bar

See the tree. See the tree grow. See the tree grow in the bar. See the tree grow in the bar and through the roof.

Hidden peaceful place to get tippled in Santa Fe. After imbibing walk next door and load up on excellent chow. Next walk around the plaza and have a coffee from Ispiritu Cafe.



Here is the Bar. I will miss this place when I move.

Santa Fe Paintings

What a wonderful world it is when you can pop into a cafe to escape the cold flinty wind and not only get an excellent drink served by a friendly bartendress, you also get to experience these wonderful colorful paintings. The magic of Santa Fe is that it is full of places like this cantina called The Pink Adobe.
The building itself is very old and authentic adobe. You just feel you are back in time with the thick plaster walls and the vigas.


This was just such a nice day for me! I just loved being in the presence of so much lovely art. Yes, it had the classic Santa Fe theme, but it was still good art.


The last group of paintings I have posted here are mostly abstract, and those are nearest to my heart. The little tiny window up to the right is also classic Santa Fe. They put little windows in some of the oddest spots. It was so tiny and so cute.


The sky here really is the magic ingredient for most painters. It really is a different sky. You wont find the light you get here in any other state.

After this little escape I wandered out back into the downtown area and just soaked up the antiquety of the town. Santa Fe is the oldest continually inhabited city in the United States and you can really feel the age of the town when you walk around.