More Travels of John & Mimi: Shooter Loose in Town Square !

Today was a perfect one for photography. Bright sun, clear as a bell, and temp in the 70's. We went to the Santa Fe Town square to see the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and hang-out with the other activities. A great opportunity to shoot-up the area! And that we did...

The O'Keeffe museum was great, especially the exhibition about her and Ansel Adams. Apparently they knew each other, and were good friends, writing frequently and visiting on occasion. Their styles were very different, but they greatly respected each other. O'Keeffe loved to use color and generally painted static art. Ansel Adams never used color, but was a genius with black and white. He also liked nonstatic art - weather effects, water, etc. Both appreciated nature and its infinite forms. Below is a rare example an O'Keeffe and Adams interpretation of the same structure.

Another shot of the Santa Fe Art Museum

Part of the town square, where there were lots of stalls set-up selling things.

These stalls are reserved for local Indians - in front of the Palace of Governors.

Can't have a town square without a Basilica near by

The center of the town square was reserved for a portable Iraq War memorial. It was sponsored by the Veterans Against the War, and was radical. Bless their hearts! My esteem for Santa Fe folks skyrocketed because of this. Below, Mimi reads about some of the casualties.

This exhibit is a variation of the empty boots displays. It emphasises the domestic casualties of the war back home - families disrupted and destroyed by a senseless, immoral, and wasteful war.

Latest count....

Empty boots remembering New Mexico Iraqi War dead.

Interesting little display summarizing the service record of politicians who supported the war. W. Bush was on another list as "Incomplete reserve service". Cheny was nowhere to be found, but I recall he had, "Other priorities" when it came to serving.