Framedlight

Ghost Ranch, as  I said in the last blog, was once a dude ranch, but is now owned by the Presbyterian Church and used as a retreat and workshop space. It covers many acres but the Welcome Centre is surrounded by small cottages where guests stay. As far as I know it is not overtly 'religious'. We had a quick look round the centre which lies in a bowl of hills with stunning views all the way round. There is also a museum of palaeontology as there have been a number of important digs at the ranch. The bones (not old) have probably been used in a workshop as O'Keeffe featured bones in some of her paintings. After lunch we had been booked in for the 'Landscape Tour'. We were taken in a minibus to see the places in Ghost Ranch that O'Keeffe used to paint. O'Keefe would paint the same views over and over again with different interpretations. The tour guide was excellent and provided us with lots of information on O'Keeffe and her compositions. There was a dead ...