Comments on: Wifi of Enchantment http://freerangelibrarian.com/2005/12/10/wifi-of-enchantment/ K.G. Schneider's blog on librarianship, writing, and everything else, since 2003. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:24:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: K.G. Schneider http://freerangelibrarian.com/2005/12/10/wifi-of-enchantment/#comment-1876 K.G. Schneider Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:36:11 +0000 http://www.freerangelibrarian.com/2005/12/10/wifi-of-enchantment/#comment-1876 So true! My mother lives in Santa Fe, and I have spent many a visit enjoying sopapaillas at Tomasita's while the sun slowly set. The altitude (7,000 feet) surely has something to do with this. But it is its own world, Santa Fe, beautiful in ways that are immediately seen and felt, but hard to translate. So true! My mother lives in Santa Fe, and I have spent many a visit enjoying sopapaillas at Tomasita’s while the sun slowly set. The altitude (7,000 feet) surely has something to do with this. But it is its own world, Santa Fe, beautiful in ways that are immediately seen and felt, but hard to translate.

]]> By: Joe Schallan http://freerangelibrarian.com/2005/12/10/wifi-of-enchantment/#comment-1875 Joe Schallan Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:03:09 +0000 http://www.freerangelibrarian.com/2005/12/10/wifi-of-enchantment/#comment-1875 Another 2000 feet higher and an hour's drive north, you'll find Santa Fe, and if you haven't been there, it's well worth the time. To us longtime Southwesterners, it is a world apart from Albuquerque, though I imagine that a New Yorker, say, would be hard pressed to discern the differences so apparent to us. The extraordinary thing about Santa Fe and all the high desert and mountain country around it is the quality of the light -- something about it is dry, ochre, and yet crystalline, and it makes your heart break. The artist Maynard Dixon captured it: <a href="http://www.tfaoi.com/distingu/mdixon.htm" rel="nofollow"><a href="http://www.tfaoi.com/distingu/mdixon.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.tfaoi.com/distingu/mdixon.htm</a></a> Scroll down and enlarge those images. You'll see what I mean. Of the quality of light in the plateaulands of the Southwest, Willa Cather wrote "Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky." Another 2000 feet higher and an hour’s drive north, you’ll find Santa Fe, and if you haven’t been there, it’s well worth the time. To us longtime Southwesterners, it is a world apart from Albuquerque, though I imagine that a New Yorker, say, would be hard pressed to discern the differences so apparent to us. The extraordinary thing about Santa Fe and all the high desert and mountain country around it is the quality of the light — something about it is dry, ochre, and yet crystalline, and it makes your heart break.

The artist Maynard Dixon captured it:

http://www.tfaoi.com/distingu/mdixon.htm

Scroll down and enlarge those images. You’ll
see what I mean.

Of the quality of light in the plateaulands of the Southwest, Willa Cather wrote “Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.”

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