2008 - OCTOBER - GHOST RANCH

We found the Ghost Ranch. The Ghost Ranch consists of 21,000 acres and in 1934 it became the place Georgia O'Keefe's spent her summers. She eventually convinced the owners to sell her a small part of the Ranch and she bought a house with 7 acres. The area around the Ranch was the inspiration for many of her paintings. The "rock palaces", which are the red, orange, pink, gold, and brown towers of rock, surround the Ranch. This painting that I bought is an example of her work:

The driveway into the Ranch is probably a half mile long. Once we got there we had to park the car and then walking was the source of transportation. The ranch is a series of rustic buildings, and while there is B&B available, it's also a place where you can go for the day to paint, hike or just look around. If you stay at the Ranch, you can take all sorts of cool classes such as watercolor painting, yoga, pottery, astronomy, meditation, etc. Danny & Becky had spent the night there back in the summer, but we just did the look around thing for a bit, and while it was a very cool place, there was somewhere else we wanted to go and we didn't when or if we'd get there. We stopped off at the Ghost Ranch Visitor's Center long enough to buy some souvenirs and then we were off to find Christ in the Desert.