Don't we all just live on eye candy? Until I have time to return to the writing desk, may this inspire juicy art and joyful life!
Continuing our Santa Fean exploits, today's post is "Eye Candy by Day" (a follow up to my night-time window eye candy). All these photos were taken on our three day jaunt to Santa Fe to celebrate Silas's birthday. Do you get the feeling Santa Fe is just wrought with deliciousness? It is! And I'm saving the best for last, so rev up those juices!
Enjoy...
So I've had this fantasy for a while, and it has nothing with a chick walking into a bar with a summer sausage and a poodle. Instead, it goes like this: I'm with someone I love and we're strolling through a beautiful village at night. There are lights on in the shop windows, music spilling from the door of a blues bar, a few people ambling arm in arm around the town square. And in this fantasy, I'm taking in all the loveliness of the store displays and...I'm taking photos.
I've always thought the best way to window shop is at night. You can see what's in the window and actually glimpse into the store in a way daylight does not allow. Everything is illuminated. Shiny things shine brighter, gauzy things look gauzier, green seems greener. Only one problem with making this fantasy a reality: while on vacation I'm often too tired from daytime sight seeing to muster the energy to shop at night.
Until now
For Silas's birthday, Mernie agreed to babysit our dogs, house, plants. It's been three entire years since Silas and I were out and about completely alone. (Confession: we weren't entirely alone. I took Houdini with us.) Knowing that Silas appreciates rare and strange beauties as much as I, we decided to head for Santa Fe, a perfect town to make my night shopping fantasy come true. We spent three glorious nights touring the town, taking photos. We paused for French pastries and espresso, but most of our evening hours were consumed with store display eye candy.
The images were so scrumptious, I thought you might like to enjoy them here:
