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!