Georgia

To all fans of Georgia O'Keeffe: there will be a tv movie about Georgia on the Lifetime channel this coming Friday. Joan Allen plays Georgia and Jeremy Irons plays her husband Alfred Stieglitz. Joan paid a visit to the Mabel Dodge Luhan House-it was great to meet her! Georgia had been a friend of Mabel's and stayed at the House.

On the Road Again Manana

Fall is here already, nice cold morning, misty rain. This morning is a regular ole day of dog walking, some house cleaning, reading, checking emails, maybe lunch with a friend, then five hours at Mabel's (hoping the gas has been turned back on there, had to be turned off for a few days due to a leak.) Then tomorrow, finally, I have a full day off, and will do a one-day road trip to Las Vegas, New Mexico. My friend Annette went there and brought me back all kinds of guides and info, so I'm all set. I think it's just a couple hours drive from here. I really need it. Road trips help blow away all the crazy cobwebs that gather in the corners of your mind, take your thoughts away from all the stuff that is bugging you constantly, bugging me anyway! Thoughts of mortgage payments, depressed friends, alcoholic friends, mistreated and abused animals, growing old (that perky young grocery clerk who just assumed I was a "senior citizen" and asked if I wanted the discount), problems at work, etc etc. Cadbury and I will hit the road tomorrow and have a great time, yeah!!

Everyone Should Have an Aunt Hazel...

and an Uncle John! These two intrepid travellers are on a road trip, all the way from their home in California to see family in Iowa and points in-between, like Taos. I spent a fun day with them yesterday, giving them my 25-cent tour of Taos. Started with the Gorge Bridge, hanging on tight to the guardrail as a truck passed and shaked the bridge, as we gazed waaaaaay down to the Rio Grande below, scary but beautiful. Then a drive around town, taking the back roads where they could see wonderful adobe houses and peaceful rural scenes. The St. Francis Church, made famous in photos by Ansel Adams and paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe, among others. Wonderful and wacky gift shops. Then to my Casita Bonita for a New Mexican lunch of green chile chicken soup, red wine and peach cobbler. Some more shopping, at the shops around Taos Plaza, then a rousing mariachi concert at the Gazebo on the Plaza, followed by dinner at Ogelvies. Whew, and guess what? Hazel is 80-something and sweet John will be 96 in a couple weeks!