Walking Old Town Albuquerque (a touristy attraction comprised mostly of trinket shops) I turned down a side alley to find this simple adobe wall with wooden support beams (technical term: vigas), casting long shadows at a 45-degree angle across the stucco canvas.
The Inn and Spa at Loretto is located on the Old Santa Fe Trail, just southeast of downtown Santa Fe. The hotel's abstract geometric adobe block architecture, punctuated with brown metal gutters that look like wooden support beams jutting out from the walls; and the shadows from the morning sun, caught my attention.
Sage shrub with lavender flowers anchor the adobe wall of an art gallery on Old Santa Fe Trail, downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico.
A wooden lintel frames a blue trimmed window, accented by a gas lamp on a cracked, weather-worn adobe wall in downtown Santa Fe.
A black wrought iron scroll-caged window, framed in peeling teal-colored paint, complements an adobe wall in Santa Fe. A nearby hand-painted rooster crows-in the morning.
Early morning sunlight brightens rusted wrought iron window bars guarding a teal-colored window frame in Santa Fe. Weathered, splintered, wooden beam posts (called vigas) protrude from the top of the wall.
An adobe stucco wall frames a weathered rustic wooden door in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Hernando's hideaway?
Gallery hopping along Santa Fe's Canyon Road, we ducked into a back courtyard for some cold, iced slushies. Against a side wall, a bench fused rusted iron into a patina of light green and deep teal. I love the patchwork of sun and shadows playing on the stucco wall.
