A few miles south of Santa Fe is the compound and sculpture garden of Allen Houser, one of the most renowned Native American painters and Modernist sculptors of the 20th century.
We went to the famous Tesuque Pueblo Flea Market. It is located next to the opera. This is not your usual flea market. It has just a few stalls with the usual flea market stuff.
And one weird stall of a painter.
Most of the stalls had some high quality arts and crafts. One man had some of the most beautiful contemporary Indian jewelry I have ever seen. It was like walking into a museum. He had a much better collection than the galleries downtown. Needless to say we did not buy anything there (think $1200 bolo ties ).
We were not able to resist, however, and bought a few things at another place.
One of the great things about Santa Fe is that you come across wonderful art wherever you go, even in the botanical garden.
One of our favorite things to do in Santa Fe (second to eating, of course) is to just wander around, looking in the shop and gallery windows and looking at all the interesting buildings. Santa Fe truly lives up to it’s motto, “The City Different”.
The original adobe walls and altar of this church were built in 1610. It is supposed to be the oldest church structure in the US.
No doubt you can tell, we really like Santa Fe and sometime in the future, we may spend most of the summer there. Now, however, we have places to go. We are off to South Dakota.
