Framedlight

In the late afternoon we drove down to Abiquiu. There is a car park below the town and here was a  market that was more or less packing up for the day. We went up a tiny road to the town square which was not metalled and very dusty. The adobe Catholic church, St Thomas the Apostle was presiding over the square and the whole place was deserted and silent in the warm light. All the churches I saw had one of these plaques in the churchyard! There must be some heavy spending behind their installation. Admittedly in New Mexico the majority of churches are Roman Catholic. We stopped by the river on the way home. The cottonwoods were glowing in the light and there was a single angler fishing. The last pictures are views of Georgia O'Keeffe’s 'White Place', where she did a number of paintings. Unfortunately it is on private land and not at the moment open to the public. 200mm was as close as I could get! An interesting mesa close to the road

The house I had rented near Abiquiu was an adobe built small cottage which had been built as a schoolhouse in the 1890's. It had been bought by the owner's great grandfather and been in her family since then. We had decided on Abiquiu because of its Georgia O'Keeffe connection. I had liked her work since going to the large retrospective exhibition at the Tate Modern in 2016. As a photographer I also found her relationship with Stieglitz interesting. The morning dawned sunny if not too warm and we were excited to get out and about. But the van wouldn't start. We phoned the owner, phoned the agency, phoned some sort of mechanical online service but nothing was doing. Eventually the help line brought a mechanic to our door who spent time exploring the van, a manual, and chewing his pen. Many cups of coffee later and after tracing some wiring, he found a switch underneath a skirt on the front of the driver's seat which was a kill switch. Which it had done, very effectiv...