– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Common Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) Recently, we were in Williamsburg to attend a graduation at the College of William and Mary. We made a weekend of this and took the opportunity to revisit Colonial Williamsburg, which we had not been to in quite a number of years. The colonial gardens are always one of the...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – San Francisco de Asis Mission Church In the last post we visited El Santuario de Chimayo, which is just north of Santa Fe. Further north, four miles south of the center of Taos, is another one of the beautiful missions that can be found in this part of New Mexico. San Francisco de Asis Mission Church in...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – El Santuario de Chimayo About 30 minutes north of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo mountains, lies the tiny community of Chimayó. Of all the villages strung along the High Road from Santa Fe to Taos, Chimayó is the most interesting. It has a venerated family of weavers who have...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Railcar Graffiti Today we return to the Railyard in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In previous posts we looked at the Santa Fe Southern Railway and the New Mexico Rail Runner Express which use the Santa Fe depot. We have also looked at how the old freight depot has been converted to fit in with the modern use of this...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Sotterley Plantation Barns During its history, Sotterley Plantation encompassed 890 acres. There are a total of 25 buildings, apart from the plantation house itself, which have been preserved on the site giving the visitor a insight into the workings of the plantation. We have so far looked at the slave cabin...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Sotterley Plantation Gardens The Sotterley Plantation gardens and its 25 outbuildings help add further dimension to the texture of life at this historic site. The recreated formal Colonial Revival style garden is just a small part of the 95 acres of rolling fields, gardens, and riverfront that constitute the...
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