Friday, November 25, 2022

Ella's Thanksgiving in Taos

We visited my mom in Taos for Thanksgiving Thursday
and stayed until Friday afternoon.


Ella explored my mom's sewing room with all of its treasures!


Ella visited the 1930's Portable Singer Sewing Machine.
It is the special attraction of the sewing room.




Ella jumped down into a box of fabric remnants that have been used for quilting.
She said that playing in fabric remnants was a lot softer than playing in large, dried leaves.



A wall near the ironing board held finished quilt blocks. As more blocks are completed, all of the quilted blocks will be organized in order to sew all of the blocks together in a quilt.



A lot of the fabrics were Japanese fabrics. 
One fabric had Kokeshi dolls on it.


My mom has several collections of Kokeshi dolls.
The largest are almost as tall as Ella!


My mom was a weaver for many years. She wove these dolls by weaving the tube bodies on a loom and weaving the faces in circles. Mom sure has different dolls at her house!


Ella also visited the kitchen from the counter. We had pinto beans with corn tortillas and chicken on Thursday. I wasn't interested in a large turkey dinner for two. I wanted my mom's cooking!


There are many of my mom's quilts hanging on the walls! 
This one is in her kitchen.


We returned home on Friday.
We made a few stops on the way out of town.


We stopped by the San Francisco de Asis Mission Church;
also known as the Ranchos de Taos Church.



The San Franciso de Asis Mission church is an early church made from adobe. The surrounding walls have an adobe base. They were more recently covered with textured cement due to annual erosion. 


The back supports for the church are called buttresses. 
As a part of the church, they are made of adobe. They remain prone to erosion
from the melting snow. It is repaired annually in the spring and summer
as needed.



Our next stop out of Taos was the Rio Grande Gorge.



The Rio Grande flows through this canyon like
the Colorado River flows through the Grand Canyon.


The main highway south of Taos drops through the canyon
where the Rio Grande is visible.


We stopped at one of the turn-out locations to view the river.





We followed the highway and the river all the way home.








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