… chosen by Master Photographer Woody Galloway. Woody and his wife Antonetta picked us up Tuesday morning for an all-day photography trip. After stopping at a little adobe house with purple windows, we drove to Chimayo to see and photograph the lovely Santuario de Chimayo. Noted for its “holy dirt,” the Catholic church is a National Historic Landmark, visited by 300,000 people annually.
During Easter, some pilgrims walk 90 miles from Albuquerque for healing. Each year, the church uses 25 to 30 tons of holy dirt, replenished from the nearby hillsides. Believers rub the dirt onto the body part needing healing. A roomful of crutches bears testimony to the power of the dirt. The complex also houses a lovely children’s chapel and other buildings.
San Juan Pueblo with its lava-rock church was our next stop. The Pueblo has recently renamed itself Okay O-win-geh.
We followed a long dirt road to an area overlooking fantastic rock formations. From there, we drove to Ghost Ranch, where Georgia O’Keeffe lived when she first settled in New Mexico.
in Abiquiu, we stopped for a delicious lunch at locally-famous Bode’s, a general store and restaurant, with gigantic sandwiches. I’ve been experimenting with my HDR painting camera mode, which seemed to suit Bode’s explosion of colors.
We took a quick look at Georgia O’Keeffe’s house in Abiquiu and the confluence of the Rio Grande and Chama rivers, painted frequently by O’Keeffe. Woody also took us to a quaint morado or unofficial church before our return to Santa Fe with hundreds of new photos.
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