Taos Farmers Market

Taos Plaza, north side

Minisa Crumbo - Victor Higgins mural - Justice

Old Taos Courthouse - 1941 WPA Murals (1 of 10)
  2014 Taos Festival of the Arts
September 26, 2014

2014 Taos Festival of the Arts

Minisa Crumbo and Anita Rodriquez

September 24, 2014, Taos Mountain, Taos, NM, sunset

September 24, 2014, Taos Mountain, Taos, NM, sunset

The mountains are growing larger. The lens of the autumn sky seems to refract, elevate and magnify the Sangre de Cristo mountains as the Rocky Range finally plays out between the high great plains to the east and to the west, the northern most finger into the New Mexico Sonoran Desert sticks a beautiful, bony finger as far as La Bajada Hill, south of Santa Fe.

The autumn season of the western introspection time is drawing a brilliantly colored veil of illusion and crisp fact, crusted with blowzy finishes and a scent of the unexpected and unknown.

Old Taos Courthouse - 1941 WPA Murals (1 of 10)
  2014 Taos Festival of the Arts
September 26, 2014

Something completely unexpected at a critical seasonal juncture ... the inexact fortunes of all other things and beings besides those who would seek to plan, organize, understand and control as much as possible, brings the sense of a wild and possibly unruly finish to the season and perhaps presages more of the same as weather faces are exposed in our moment, but out of their along snaking journeys on high wind rivers.

Minisa Crumbo and Anita Rodriquez

Old water washed boulders tumble and soil breaks loose making mud flows in the flash floods of late fall rains and any kind of cloud from summer cirrus to thunder heads to spacey snow scouts can be seen.

7:40 AM -- The Equinox keyhole is opening ...

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