House of mirrors (Mary Colter and La Posada Hotel, Winslow AZ)

Arriving

When you walk into a place that is really loved, it's often evident from the very first moment. La Posada at Winslow is such a place.

Wait, Thursday is also wolf day (Meow Wolf, Santa Fe NM)

Detail of arch, Meow Wolf, Santa Fe NM

So, Meow Wolf. Wait what, right? Wolves don't ... Cats aren't ... Yup, true, true, so I took a deep breath and ignored the category violation error. It's an excellent name because it makes you ask, what on earth is that?

Ans.: No idea, sorry. Indoor theme park? Art gallery? Interactive installation? Immersive mockumentary?

Meow? 

Christmas lights by the palace (Santa Fe Plaza)

For actual rhinestone cowboys?

Santa Fe plaza gives very pleasant evening strolling in scarf-and-glove temperatures.

All the glittery things imaginable and a few that, frankly, I would never have thought of. Such historic. Very luxury.

Earth, bearing strange trees (The International Car Forest of the Last Church)

There is a huge art installation in the desert on the outskirts of Goldfield. Vehicles of several kinds have been arranged on or in the ground and painted in a variety of eclectic themes and motifs.

And that's all I can say in words. Nothing can really convey the heat or dust, the mountain-bike-park irregularity of the tracks, the arresting strangeness of the art itself, or the weird stillness of the air ...