Santa Fe and Surrounds

Santa Fe and Surrounds
Jason Jonas and Nancy Aagenes
April 2014

This is the only photo of both of us on the blog to date--at breakfast on the square in downtown Santa Fe.

The Millicent Rogers Museum out of Taos is maybe my all time favorite Museum.   Her collection of Southwestern art and artifacts is striking.  The museum is housed in a pueblo style home that is unusual and maybe I love the museum for that too.  It's an amazing place. This one pot from her collection.

A walk into Bandelier National Monument with dwellings built sometimes 3-4 stories high into these cliffs.  The small valley had been badly flooded, but was beautiful and as interesting to us as the cliff dwellings.

The Rio Grande River Valley looking from White Rock back towards Santa Fe.  Julius told a story of friends being lost in this valley for three days and then finally hiking out in three hours. 

From around Abiquiu where Georgia O'Keefe had her home and studio. 

We walked alone together in a huge arroyo we found on our way to her White Place

We visited our nephew, Julius Ostby, in Santa Fe.


Julius is finishing his second year at St. John's College and we ambled around the campus mountains with him on trail and off talking for hours. One of the best treats of the trip.