Santa Fe, NM 2003

Saturday, August 2, in Santa Fe, spent visiting shops, and finally the opera.

Some lovely houses that we "windowshopped"	A roadside shrine
The small chapel above the roadside shrine	Just more houses...
Oops... this must still be Friday... it's the moon that evening.	Now it's Saturday morning, and we're touring Our Lady of Guadalupe (within walking distance of our b&b), the oldest shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe in the US
The painting over the altar	closeup of our lady
The old chapel doors... the place was under major renovations.	A tile version
A gesso shrine	This was cool... Psalms 62 translated into spanish and two different Native American tongues.
The crucifix that was on the wall	Old bell, cracked in a fire they'd suffered.
Another view of the outside	Our trusty Mustang steed...
Cool architecture	Hawkquest was at a big Crafts fair that was going on in the Plaza, beautiful bald eagle
...owl	Some other type of hawk
Entrance to the Santa Fe Opera house	Looking down from parking lot to the highway
Another view	Dawn and I are eating our romantic "picnic" dinner... I planned everything except the fact that it was raining and they have no covered shelters for these expensive catered picnic dinners! But it was actually pretty funny eating here on the bench by the box office anyway!
A view of one wing of the Santa Fe Opera House. This place is just fantastic, and the opera was terrific. Very funny, the story of Helen of Troy which was staged "modern" -- most of the characters had this strange garb of part Greco-Roman attire with modern business suits and the like showing underneath.

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