August 26, 2014 Taos, New Mexico

 

We had wanted to go to the Taos Pueblo –pictured above, but it was closed for the week. Boo. This is a photo of the pueblo off internet of it. Looks like it is really cool. We will have to come back sometime to see it. We drove by this nice field of sunflowers with the storm clouds moving in. Heavy rain is predicted. But so far there is bright sunshine.

San Francisco De Asis Church was built in 1772 by Franciscan priests.  You can see still see the straw glinting in the sunlight in the massive adobe walls.

This  is one of the most beautiful churches I have ever seen.  It is heavily buttressed with twin bell towers that exemplifies Spanish Colonial architecture. The church was not open.

This is the door to the parish hall that is supposed to have a miraculous, mysterious, luminescent painting called The Shadow of the Cross. They charge $3 dollars to see the painting. It was not open either. This house across from the church is what I think of when I think of houses in this area.

The Taos plaza. We went to the Kit Carson Museum. Kit is a well known  mountain man, army general, and masonic member.  The masons raised the money and restored his house and made it into a museum.  Kit and his family lived in Taos for 25 years in this house in the mid 1800’s.

The courtyard of the Kit Carson museum.

The kitchen in the Kit Carson Museum and his grave.

We had lunch at Eske’s brewery.

John and I on a high bench at Twirl toy store and play park. The guy taking the photo cut off the bottom of the chair, so you get to see John in it too.

This 1,272 foot continuous steel deck bridge was built over the Rio Grande Gorge. It is 650 feet above the river. There is a side walk to the observation deck mid bridge over the river. It started raining when we were on the bridge, you can see it moving in from down the river.  It has not stopped since. The weather service says it will rain until tomorrow, heavy at times.