At Home In Taos

05/21/2026

Girl in the forest of flowers

05/21/2026

05/10/2026

I know .... I'm a potter but recently got hold to some art supplies.Having fun in the 2 dimensional.

03/15/2023

We are visualizing spring.....flowers....bees .....butterflies....Trust me ...it is on it's way

01/01/2023

Happy New Year...Looking forward to creative New Year....

12/14/2022

Over the years I've posted several photos of the San Jose Mission at San Acacia in Socorro County, New Mexico. While I've learned that it was built following WWII (after two earlier churches were destroyed in floods) and in official use until 1957, I had never heard from anyone that was there. Until now. The recollection I just received is so wonderful that I'm going to post it below in its entirety. Memories such as these are hard to find, and I'm always honored to be able to post another one here. Many thanks to Ed B. for sharing his remembrance of a fiesta vespers service:

"I am indeed familiar with the San Jose Mission in San Acacia. My dad's job with the U.S. Geological Survey involved measuring the flow of the Rio Grande on a daily basis. One of his work sites was the gauging station just below the San Acacia dam. As a kid (I was born in 1945), I would often accompany him to San Acacia during my summer vacation. We would pass by that church on the way to the river. While he did his steam-gauging thing, I angled for channel cat at the river's edge.

"As a student at Hilton Mt. Carmel School in Socorro, I served Mass as an altar boy at San Miguel Catholic Church. The spiritual needs of the mission churches in the Socorro area were served under the auspices of the Pastor at San Miguel. Besides the occasional funeral of a community member, small missions like San Jose only had one major service during the year, and that was on its namesake's feast day, i.e., its fiestas.

"Around 1957 or so, I, along with another altar boy, and the San Miguel organist and two choir members, accompanied Father James McNiff to San Acacia to celebrate the San Jose fiesta vespers service. The mayordomos and the community's faithful had lighted the path to the church with luminarias. The organist, my aunt Helen Baca, cranked up the old pump organ at the back of the church. The two choir members sang traditional Spanish hymns to an overflowing congregation of current and former residents who sang along with them.

"The memory of this occasion warms my heart to this day. I know that you know that this unique aspect of New Mexico's Hispanic culture is slowly vanishing, and it is sad. But, thanks to efforts of people to preserve the story of a once-vital place, all will not be totally forgotten."

12/01/2022

Gotta love those pink, fluffy, New Mexico clouds!

07/15/2022

Did I say we have flowers?

07/15/2022

We have lots of flowers...new shipment.......

07/12/2022

A beautiful Tuesday morning. No complaints

06/26/2022

I left Kraków Poland yesterday 24 hours ago. I’m at the Denver airport . Think I’m paying my dues.