Happy New Year's Eve!

(mixed media drawing by Mark Fletcher)

Happy New Year's Eve! Stay safe tonight while having loads of fun, laughing lots, spreading love and joy!

William's Canyon Rim Hike

Merry Merry

drawings by Mark Fletcher

“The miracle is not to walk on water.
The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.”

― Thích Nhất Hạnh

Winter / Geese

Drinks at Shuga's

Beautiful drinks from Shuga's - my favorite restaurant in Colorado Springs! These photos are from Carol's birthday celebration a while ago. I wish I'd had my camera the other day when I happened to be there for their anniversary celebration - beautiful little chocolate desserts and fancy mimosas!

The Solstice Tree

On the Road to Los Alamos

Plaza Blanca, NM

New Mexico Part 4

 Ranchos de Taos, NM

E.L. Blumenschein Home & Museum

 Ken Price piece at Harwood Museum

Agnes Martin Room at the Harwood Museum

New Mexico Part 3

O'Keeffe's "White Place" (I felt I was walking on another planet)

near O'Keeffe's Ghost Ranch, north of Abiquiu, NM

this, to me, looks like O'Keeffe's painting (see below)

O'Keeffe's Mountain - Pedernal

Echo Amphitheater Trail, Carson National Forest

Abiquiu Reservoir 

Georgia O'Keeffe, Untitled (Red and Yellow Cliffs), 1940, currently on view at the O'Keeffe Museum

New Mexico Part 2

We started the day with perfect coffee and delicious scones from Ohori's, then drove North. Here are views from highway to Los Alamos, NM.

Bandelier National Monument

pictographs

petroglyphs

Can you see the turkey, beaver, snake, and more?

painting on back wall of dwelling

plaster along the bottom of the wall, soot on ceiling, in this cliff dwelling

Camel Rock

Rabbit Brush