Monday my plan was to go up to Santa Fe and see the Georgia O'Keeffe museum. Santa Fe is about an hour away and the drive was beautiful. When I think of the desert I think of sand as far as the eye can see. This was not that way at all. I kept wishing I had paid better attention in earth science so I could know more about what I was seeing. Butte, arroyos, mesas, I need to learn more about which is what. Actually, I probably did pay attention in earth science, but that was 30 years ago. Yikes!
The museum was lovely. I learned things I didn't know about her, like her paintings were never meant to be sexual even though they were thought of that way. In fact she stopped painting flowers for awhile because of that. My favorite thing I learned was that she was born in Wisconsin but didn't like the Midwest because it was nothing but green, boring. I started seeing the colors of the southwest through her eyes after that and can understand why she preferred it down here.
Santa Fe did seem nice, but all I saw to do was shop. I'm so glad I choose Albuquerque.
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