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| Side light |
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| Hearth and Home |
Sometimes there’s no story to be found. Over the last week I
had a few photographic moments that were fleeting, disparate and highly
adequate. There’s absolutely no connection from one subject to another. As is
so often the case with my wandering attention the images I offer here will be
discovered as I select them. Because there’s little linkage between the
subjects you may find an image or two from several batches or they’ll all be
from one of the photo opportunities in the last seven days. Even I won’t know
till it happens.
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| Baby dolls |
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| Wrought iron |
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| Stained glass and bent metal |
The explorations from which these are gleaned are typical Taos
landscapes and interiors and still lifes from the late Julian Robles’s adobe
casa that was built in stages starting in the early 1800s. According to legend
Robles and his partner bought the rough-hewn adobe manse in 1968 for $5,000. Greenwich
village had become inhospitable to a gay men, so they decamped to Taos where
Robles became one of the Taos Six which included Ron Barsano, Walt Gonske, Rod
Goebel, Ray Vinella and Robert Daughters. He died in 2023 leaving only Gonske and Barsano to carry the flame.
In 1968 the 6,000-foot adobe had no plumbing and had an
outhouse. It’s still rough as a cob. To say that it needs a work is an exercise
in understatement. It’s a coin flip and a million and half dollars away from
being a tear down. The buyer of the historic property will need vision and bucks.
It’s for sale folks and the seller will deal.
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Rough as a cob and served its purpose for a good many years for Sr. Robles and, no doubt, the Taos Six. One can imagine the grand discussions centered around some great food and plentiful adult beverages, among other things. The side light and baby doll images are suitably creepy, and the stained glass is wonderful. I hope that if someone purchases Casa Robles, and turn it into a scraper, they will retain the stained glass, along with the history and memories contained therein. Thanks for this rich look into a part of the past artisans of Taos!
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