Dirt Roads of Abiquiu

 Make a left at Bode's General Store...

Drive passed the post office...

Drive on up the hill and around the curve...

The old road becomes a dirt lane...

Follow it to the top...

This is Abiquiu, New Mexico...

Home to Georgia O'Keeffe...

At one time

this was home to someone...

Someone who would have been a close neighbor to the great artist...

And here...

Another old home...

Standing still in time...

Neighbors to Georgia O'Keeffe...

 Leaving the deserted dirt road,

we turn left on another dirt road of Abiquiu,

and there to the left is the wall

enclosing her home...

The place she loved.

An unassuming adobe dwelling sitting on the edge of a mountain...

Over-looking New Mexico,

the land of enchantment.

 Of course,

she has been gone from this world,

this place,

her home,

for many years,

but as I stood looking through her simple gate,

gazing at her house and driveway,

I felt her spirit.

 "She spoke of feeling free and finding her place in Abiquiu.

To her, 'place' was the most important thing."

Margaret Wood

Through high adobe walls...

"After a walk and supper,

we often listened to music in her studio as night approached.

Some of her music selections were

Pablo Casals's Bach cello suites,

early music of Gesualdo and Monteverdi,

and classical works by 

Mozart, Schumann, and Beethoven."

Margaret Wood

A close-up of the drive-way and its view...

"Before supper we often walked the large circular driveway,

gazing at the Chama River below, 

the long mesa to the east,

and distant mountains in several directions."

Margaret Wood

I was very moved to stand in this place,

and look upon her view,

and reflect upon her remarkable life.

Blessings

Yaya