We love this area and have visited many times. Most often, we’ve stayed in Santa Fe. But this time, we decided to spend our time in Taos. Smaller than Santa Fe, and not quite so polished, which suits us just fine. We were there for three days and could have stayed much longer.
Bargain saints at the market
We bought local goat cheese and tomatoes at the Farmers’ Market, perused art in the park (considered buying a flawed saint), visited the wonderful Millicent Rogers Museum (coveted her turquoise and silver bracelet collection), and had a fabulous dinner at The Love Apple (lamb meatballs in tomato-tamarind broth; grilled rainbow trout with chipotle cream; and the most amazing blue corn muffins with green chile butter and a salad of local greens, pears, pecans, and warm goat cheese).
The Love Apple
As the New Mexico license plate proclaims, this truly is The Land of Enchantment.
Where we stayed: Taos RV Park
Love the images of Taos, a town I have always wanted to visit. The pictures of the Milagros in the shop were beautiful, I did not know that Milagros comes from the spanish for miracles or surprises and that the small silver or gold that Mexicans attached to the images of the Virgin Mary or Saint is done as a request for help.
The photos of your destinations are wonderful, makes you want to take a trip right away. Our fall in Portland now coming in, with the trees changing, we have had no rain and now are officially in a drought.
How do you make your chowder, looks delicious.
Have fun,
Love,
Peggy
Peggy, you would love Taos! The art is fabulous; I especially enjoy the folk art. I’ll send you the recipe for the chowder. It’s easy and so good on a chilly evening.
Maybe you’d better post the recipe for your chowder – I had the same thought as Peggy!
Your photos are fabulous (always). You definitely found the best of Taos. I was rather depressed by the commercialism. I would have loved to visit 30-40 years ago.
Thanks, Laurie. I, too, would have loved to have visited Taos 30 or 40 years ago. It must have been amazing!! Still, I love it there. We just stay away from the plaza and the souvenir shops and try to pass for locals.
The computer told me I ran out of–to try again!!!
So here I am. Tom and I took a 25th anniversary road
trip to N.Mex. in his Corvette to as many Pueblos as
we could. We spent one lovely day and night in Taos
and like you, wish we could have stayed longer. Now
I want to get out some of my lovely silver and turquoise
jewelry and wear it!!! Not many folks here in Florida do.
Fantastic trip, you two. Thanks for sharing. Barbara
Now that sounds like a romantic journey! (And I think you should wear your silver and turquoise jewelry—it’s perfect anywhere.)
Laurel,
I lived in Santa Fe for 10 years — mostly during the 1980s. I came to appreciate Taos as being mostly likely the way Santa Fe was at one time many years before. I loved the sign about “flawed saints” — if they’re flawed, maybe they shouldn’t be saints, eh?
I love photographing the back of the adobe church at Ranchos de Taos (about 5 miles south of the plaza in Taos), which Ansel Adams and Paul Strand photographed and Georgia O’Keeffe painted. (Not on a Sunday morning, though, when the area is filled with worshipers’ cars.) I might go back for a visit next month — planning to go back to White Sands and then to the Bosque del Apache … and if I go that far, I might as well visit friends in Santa Fe and then drive up to Taos. I think I have some photographs of the church at my website, jackchallem.com/photography
Love your blog, my mouth waters when you describe your meals…. :)
Jack, your photos are outstanding! We definitely want to visit the church at Ranchos de Taos…next trip!
Beautiful pictures, have always wanted to go to New Mexico but still haven’t made it. I too love the
look of that chowder, want that recipe. I think we
are finally cooling down in San Diego…68 at 9:30am.
Love, Penny
I’ll get the chicken chowder recipe written down and post it soon…it’s one of those recipes that I don’t have a recipe for. :-)