Taos, New Mexico
Spent a few days visiting friends. Managed to get in a lot of writing for work, wonder around to take a few pictures and had some really, really good food. Being from the south, I am familiar with hominy (ground up, aka grits) but don’t remember ever having had posole. Loved it, although like many dishes, the normal recipe has meat (pork), but there are enough whole earth people around that I didn’t have trouble finding a vegetarian versions. Sometimes life is good :-)
Rio Grande Gorge, took the photo late afternoon from a bridge. River is about 200 ft down.
Honey sticks. Little bit of color from the Taos Farmers Market. Lot of back to the earth oriented people in this part of the country
Speaking of back to nature....meet Spaceship Earth. A community of people totally off the grid, living in self contained homes, believing in the limited resources of the planet and the need for everyone to live together in a harmonious way with the planet (OK, I probably butchered their views a little there). All that aside, architecturally, some pretty interesting homes. You can see a little about the place here:
Some of the building techniques here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthship
Few places up for sale here:
http://www.taosearthships.com/
It really is an interesting place. For those old enough you may remember that Buckminster Fuller wrote a book called ‘Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth’, which I read in college. It wasn’t about this place, the title came from the spaceship earth concept that was the foundation for this place as well (again, probably butchered a little).