My favorite little courtyard in Albuquerque is right behind The Daily Grind. It’s a great place to drink lattes, enjoy the shade, and encounter magical kitties. I’m not sure what these gears do (perhaps they grind wheat?), but they work well with the flowers, the blue paint, the peeling adobe walls.
Monthly Archives: July 2011
High Desert Tea
My week in New Mexico hasn’t been ideal for getting writing done, but like every great vacation, it’s allowed me to empty my brain and refill it again. On Friday, we went to the St. James Tearoom for high tea, and I refilled my brain with scones and clotted cream. In the interest of looking […]
High Desert Market
Saturday was meant to be a hiking day. We’d planned to get up at some ungodly hour on Saturday morning to hike the Pino trail to the top of Sandia Peak, taking the cable car back down. But the Pino trail has been closed for weeks due to the extreme wildfire conditions, and giant slurry […]
Sandia Summer
I’m in Albuquerque this week, in the foothills of the Sandia mountains, enjoying a holiday with friends. And by friends, I mean the Texas Blue Scale Quail that inhabit the backyard: The exotic orange-eyed Curve-Billed Thrashers that hop about in the sage and the cone flowers: And the gorgeous roses. This is “Party Time,” an […]