Day 5: Santa Fe

Day 5: Santa Fe

Weather:  cool in early morning, then mid-60s to mid-70s depending on cloud cover

QOTD: Should we go to Vinaigrette again?

DB and THB use the Fitness Center together, riding for miles side-by-side on elliptical machines. THB watches Tour de France and during commercial breaks switches to Wimbledon. Breakfast of fruit bowl and huevos rancheros, and coffee for DB; blue corn pancakes with pinons, berries and Greek yogurt (really good combo), included.

photo taken by hubbie Alfred Steiglitz

In the morning: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (and we go to GOK ranch tomorrow to walk in her footsteps) and Museum of Contemporary Native Arts to see the Christine McHorse show (we had seen this same show several years ago at the JCCC (not a typo)) museum and it is well worth another viewing.

 Some non-iconic work by GOK that THB liked

And, Christine McHorse:

After attempting to eat at the restaurant Five Graces uses for room service only to find it closed at lunch time,  we decide (with enthusiasm) to go to Vinaigrette again for lunch. Good decision! THB has the salad DB had yesterday, this time with burratta  to go with the peaches, arugula, prosciutto, and sweet corn. AWESOME, DUDE! DB has kale and shredded chicken, and black beans, also terrific. With ice teas, $48.

Several more gallery visits and then it is time to head back to the Inn for a rest up.

Shots from around town:

THB was flagging, so the rest up was a real necessity. We bought (spur of the moment, yesterday) tickets to the Art Santa Fe opening night Vernissage. THB has no clue what this word means, maybe just something to make the people paying $100pp feel they are getting their money’s worth.

We’re there right at 5pm, almost the first two inside. We walk the first aisle and we are positive we’ll also be the first two people to leave. Down the second aisle and there are two galleries from Japan: Osaka and Tokyo. We don’t recognize either one.

On the outside of one (and on the inside of the other) they are selling work by Yayoi Kusama, one of DB’s all-time faves. Inside the Osaka booth are several artists we recognize including three limited edition “sea horizon” prints by Hiroshi Sugimoto, one of our faves from Naoshima.

Snap them up, a grand total of $2700, and they are going into our new downstairs bedroom at the beach. THB has a saying: if you see one thing at a fair/show/etc. you consider buying, it is worth the price of admission (and time and effort to get there). We’ve succeeded!

From the show we head to The Shed (not the hair cutting place out front of the loft in E-Ville), a famous New Mexican restaurant in town. So famous there is a 45 minute wait. Two Silver Coin margaritas ($25), pollo adobo with a cheese enchilada for THB, grilled shrimp, green salad and guacamole for DB, $41. This place is doing 3 times the business of any other restaurant in town: basic fare in large quantities at decent prices. However, THB's plate is smallish and the soup from the adobo and beans is spilling over the edges and you cannot see the cheese enchilada. While it tastes good, it has to be one of the most unappetizing presentations ever. The margaritas were very good, so that may be the secret sauce.

More pics from around town:

Outside a well-established gallery, these look like rejects from the piece near the plaza