Georgia's Garden

During our recent trip to New Mexico, we visited the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, and then took a tour of her house and studio in Abiquiu.

We found the tour of the house, garden and studio interesting, but the rules prohibited us from taking any photographs until the tour was over and we were back outside.  However, we were able to take a few pictures by leaning over the wall or shooting through the fence.

Georgia's Garden Walk

One of the most interesting things about her garden was that the property includes water rights and the garden is still watered using the flooding method, with the water flowing through trenches or diverted to flood specific parts of the garden.  This low-tech method seems wasteful to us, with our heightened consciousness of drought, but it probably has been done that way for centuries in this part of the world.

Original Entrance To the House

I loved the gate, with the smaller gate set inside.