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the Road to Taos

11/2/2014

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Well, before our Hallowe'en break, we were heading south out of Colorado. The following day we entered New Mexico. The landscape became much more varied, and drier. We stopped to take a look at the Rio Grande Gorge near Taos, where over the millennia, the river has carved a very deep gorge across the flat dessert landscape. Owen and Efreet came out on the bridge with us....
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Taos is a town in north central New Mexico at the base of the Sangre de Cristo mountains, and includes the thousand year old Taos Pueblo, after which the town is named. Taos is well known as an 'artist colony', having attracted many artists since the late nineteenth century. Famed American artist, Georgia O'Keefe spent many summers there, at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu near Taos, painting the New Mexico landscape. Bonnie, who is into art in a big way, insisted on visiting Ghost Ranch.....
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Leona and Efreet went with Bonnie, to hike around the Ranch, and see some of the sights....
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Georgia O'Keefe is one of Bonnie's favourite artists, and she especially loves all her huge close-up paintings of flowers. So when she got home, Bonnie was inspired to paint a large flower herself....
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5 Comments
Donna
11/2/2014 06:01:17 am

Just love these vacation photos! Bonnie - the little artist - is wonderful :o)

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Martha
11/3/2014 03:12:41 am

Thanks! Bonnie really has some talent!

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Jane
11/3/2014 03:07:20 am

I love those shots of them hiking in the landscape.....they look so real! And so do Owen and Efreet on that bridge too!

And well done Bonnie....I can certainly see the artist in you! ((^_^))
Did you make those tiny tubes of paint?!

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Martha
11/3/2014 03:14:43 am

I think the more I do these kinds of pictures, the better they get.

Those tubes of paint are from a real watercolour set that I've had forever. The paint inside dried long ago, but I keep them for doll props.

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Milena link
11/3/2014 04:47:13 pm

I love the last photo! Bonnie's painting looks great.

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