April 8, 2007: Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Further still up the Rio Grande is a whole city made of adobe. Even the IHOP. That might get a little old to the local or a little stifling to the homeowner, but it's rather attractive to the tourist.

Georgia O'Keefe lived at nearby Ghost Ranch and her museum is in town. She became famous after her noted husband-photographer showed nude photos of her. Her own work, which was then very abstract, became associated with the racy photos and she was invariably reviewed thru a sexual lens. She was bugged and switched to painting flowers. These later paintings, of course, would always bring similar interpretations.
There is lots of other art here too, and we were in town for the monthly Art Walk when the many galleries in town open their doors at night in kind of party atmosphere. Wearing our year-old stained and battered RV rags, I'm not sure we looked as though we were in the market for a $60,000 sculpture. In any case, they didn't sell us one.
Just outside the city is Bandelier National Monument, where cliff dwellings dating from about 1100 to 1500 are preserved by the walls of Frijoles Canyon. These folks did alright for themselves.