In charting a course for a future Memory Lane – paved with images, impressions, and travel-tread keepsakes – we offer you a gilded inventory, what you might call “the Blueprint Special,” which runs the recreational gamut in northern New Mexico and the southern Rockies. Switching Gears Your personal scrapbook may include a snapshot of you Read More
Tiwa… Keeping Language Alive –
Tiwa is not a written language – and out of respect, many speakers don’t wish to provide written translations. Other traditions may differ from that of Taos Pueblo, which speaks northern Tiwa, as does Picuris The white stuff falling softly from the sky is the world’s most beautiful sight, no matter what you call it. “Nieve” I recall, in Read More
Oh, When The Saints –
Carving a place in history – Whether celebrating the beneficence of San Francisco (St. Francis), petitioning San Ysidro for rain during a drought (St. Isidore), or honoring the virtues of Guadalupe, saints have been and remain an essential part of the spiritual and cultural fabric of Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. When Spanish settlers Read More
OUR TOWNS 2011
Then followed that beautiful season… Summer … Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood. — Henry Longfellow A Midas-touch talent combined with geological flair make New Mexico a magical summer playground. Rivers run through it, mountains silently hold Read More
Fire and Ice: Christmas Eve at Taos Pueblo
The longest night of winter in the most beautiful place on earth | by Michelle Potter It is just about the coldest, longest night of winter. It is just about the most beautiful place on earth. If Dante’s inferno is supposed to be some sort of earthly burning hell, this must be the place, except Read More
Ecotourism New Mexico
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference – from The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost In drawing a parallel to the poetic compass of Robert Frost: Read More
Mud and Adobe
The womb of birth, which is of water And the womb of death, which is of earth. — Lise Goett But for the living, mud. And if mud is what we’re made of, those of us in northern New Mexico are very down-to-earth. Mud: it is a kind of cultural and architectural recipe. There’s mud to Read More
A few of the many Remarkable Women of Taos –
First of Their Kind – The year-long celebration of the Remarkable Women of Taos and Northern New Mexico honors the area’s outstanding historic and contemporary women and focuses in part on their passions and accomplishments. Out of hundreds of remarkable women, this representative selection profiles Mabel Dodge Luhan, Millicent Rogers, Cleofas Jaramillo and Virginia T. Romero, Read More