A visit with Alice

Went to see Alice Watterson's new studio in her former garage... what a terrific transformation. So now she has her studio in the back yard to weave the fabric, as well as the back room studio space and now the new space for power tools...drill, bandsaw and sanders, as well as storage for the many materials. And I was just in time to see her new art ready for a show! Great treat! Here, have a look...

Folk Art Market day

Made it through 3 hours in the hot sun. Had a delicious horchata drink to cool me for a while. Seems more crowded that ever this year! But take a look at the photos to get a feel for the market! This woman from near Biejing sold me a beautiful tie die fabric.
Two beautifully dressed women working at their crafts

Here's a look at a couple of the booths

These boys were playing a game while 'dad' played the drums

Aother craftsman drom Mexico and a Malay musician

Taos

Saturday, spent a day in Taos with friend Ann. Weather was perfect! Ran into PJ there (Bob was somewhere, too) Had a great dining experience at El Monte Sagrado and strolled their beautiful gardens. Forgot to photograph anything until on our way out of town when we cruised a bed and breakfast locale with a wedding cermeony (thats the groom behind the pole) of people we did not know. Then spied a palimino mare and her nursing offspring at 912 dirt road. Those are the only shots to show you of Taos.

Palin on Ladybug

Here is Palin out riding her favorite horse, Ladybug, in the hills of Cerrillos. This day, she and her riding buddies rode for seven hours! Ouch.

backstage opera tour

Palin and I toured backstage at the Santa Fe opera. We got to see models of current season sets and observe construction of the sets and props as well as demonstrations of lighting, audio and stage managers boards/equipment. The costume shop was just getting set up, but a few initial pieces were on display. It is a huge operation - very impressive.

Top left, costume shop and impressive gown for wide doorways, center, muslin mockups, right, our tour guide and and a costume head for the opera, 'Plateé'.
Bottom, candelabra props and part of the prop room.


One of my favorite items was this chandelier they constructed from plastic. They made molds to create the leaves and flowers and the central globe areas are made from thrift store bowls and vases!
Ya gotta love it!

matsuri

The third annual Japanese festival held in Santa Fe - another success for JIN. So much fun! We saw beautiful clothes and crafts for sale and watched some interesting stage performances (including aikido practitioners demonstrating unnatural ways to punish their bodies). Ate good food, especially the homemade mochi - mmm. By far the highlight was Art Lee with two women of his wadaiko group, Tokara. Everyone stopped whatever they were doing - his performance was intensly magnificent! Great show.

reclining dream

I dreamed I was reclining on my pink plastic daybed, listening to T.S. Eliot recite the Four Quartets... "I said to my soul, be still, wait without thought for you are not ready for thought". Then, I thought there was an owl, about to tickle me with his wing. Motto cards floated down from the past. Was it really a dream? Or just playing around with Photoshop!