2012 Garden Tour

The annual Taos Garden and Home tour is always good.  For around $20 one gets a ticket to admission for 5 or 6 homes and gardens, a map of where these places are found, and a wonderful day of ideas and beauty.  Some homes and gardens are better than others, some are most surely "unique" (one year the home was a tree house, literally.  The bathroom was down on the ground in an insulted outhouse - insulated well with hundreds of cork tops from wine glasses.  It was very clean, and very nice, but still...)
This year the homes and gardens showcased were those of artists. And so in addition to wonderful homes, and beautiful gardens, their art studios were also featured.  My favorite: a wonderful 2 story home, adobe style, 2 floor, with great entrance and open front yard with hammocks, lots of trees, (one of which I noticed had clear miniature lights winding the tree trunk, I'm sure it's great a night), a fabulous front patio with huge dinning table and chairs, another "side patio" with a great little grotto like cave with facing mat-covered adobe wall benches, a 3rd side patio for reading, off one of the bedrooms, and not one, but two different art studios.  The nicest of the two served as a guest house AND greenhouse WITH A NATURAL FREE FLOWING MINI CREEK FLOWING in it.  I loved the old cast iron stove and tudor windows in its kitchen.  A writing desk near a wooded adobe fireplace, a guest bedroom elevated and tucked up and away from the studio/greenhouse/kitchen/fireplaced office.  There is ALWAYS at least one eccentric artist and garden/home featured, and this was no different.  While I did not care for his home, the studio/guest house (two story, served by a bright read iron spiral staircase) was really something I liked a great deal.  And as the photos herein show.... great outdoor gardens, fruit trees, and greenhouse complete with bright colored painted metal animals.  Including a blue flying pig at roof line. 
Be Well.  Do Good.