Adobe and Smoke, Verticality

Book of Solemnity # 2, San Francisco de Asis

Here's a bevy of verticals, a rarity on these pages. It’s so special I may follow with additional tall images next week as well. This protracted extravaganza is about the shadows caressing the organic adobe forms that abound near Casa Immel. I am blessed by these masterpieces and must doff my sombrero to the Spanish who introduced Spanish Mission Architecture to the wilds of New Mexico in the early 17^th century.

Stairs in Shadow, Acoma Pueblo

 

Verticality, San José de Gracia, Las Trampas

Santa Fe’s San Miguel Chapel was completed in 1628 and is proclaimed to be the oldest church in the United States. Yet, Nuestra Señora de Perpetua in Socorro was built in 1593, so I’m flummoxed. What is incontestable is that the Conquistadores conquered Central America, Mexico and Nuevo Mexico in less than 150 years.