Self-Portrait in a Complex Mirror
VICENTE TELLES CAREFULLY rolls open a storage cabinet, revealing a retablo of Our Lady of Guadalupe that’s more than 200 years old. “Pedro Antonio Fresquís, he’s the one known as the first native New…
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Three Outdoorsy Getaways
THE BLAKE, TAOS SKI VALLEY Opened in 2017 and named for Taos Ski Valley founder Ernie Blake, the stylish 80-room ski-in, ski-out hotel and spa is 20 yards from the valley’s Lift 1. “The resort…
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Wildlife Meets Luxury at Vermejo
FROM A SWATH of shortgrass prairie to a chain of alpine peaks, early morning light floods the big country of Vermejo, flushing out its inhabitants. Barreling up a ridge near the eastern boundary of…
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Art City, Here We Come
DAWN LIGHT BATHES ART CITY in pastels. Mauves and pinks unfurl over the desert plains, lending a gauzy morning majesty to the giant sculpture of a poppy-red mouth that sits outside my trailer. I open…
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What We're Reading: Fountain Creek
NEW MEXICO MAGAZINE contributor and Pueblo, Colorado, native Jim O’Donnell traces the flow of his hometown watershed in Fountain Creek: Big Lessons from a Little River (Torrey House Press). “The world…
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New Mexico's Chile Nights
NEW MEXICANS TEND to gather outside on December evenings. We want to be among the lights: blazing bonfires on Christmas Eve, little paper-bag-and-sand lanterns all season long, and even the…
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What We’re Reading: Light as Light
“LANGUAGE IS AT THE BASE and core of relating to others,” Acoma Pueblo poet Simon J. Ortiz writes in Light as Light (University of Arizona Press). “Language is motion. Action. Doing. Letting. Sharing…
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Olive Rush Studio Welcomes a New Era
“ONE LOVELY THING about a garden is the way one’s friends enjoy it,” Olive Rush (1873–1966) once wrote to a fellow artist. On a recent evening in Santa Fe, a circle of young people seated under her…
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Remembering Dawson
The road to Dawson is five miles of hard-packed red dirt that runs along the Vermejo River into a network of foothills and canyons. If you’re lucky enough to travel there in summer, you’ll turn off US…
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Juanita’s Final Resting Place
IT TOOK 142 YEARS, or more than seven times her age at death, for Juanita Martinez Garrett (1860–1879) to get a grave marker. The memorial for Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett’s first wife—a…
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