Sunscreen (not) & Samosas

It was a beautiful day today—just right for an outing. Hoards of motorcycles taking the wrong turn up our road, they meant to turn down at the corner & head up to Red River—an annual rally there, they expected 20,000 bikes over the weekend.

We tried out Alicia’s café up Picuris way and we really liked it. We’ll be going back there. After breakfast we headed up to that sweet spot between Dixon and Ojo Sarco & set up the easels.

Alas, there was no sunscreen in the truck as I thought, so our painting time was cut short. Normally I’m fine in the sun but have gotten no “base tan” this year due to our new, high elevation and lack of fine weather to be outdoors in. So I am basically lily-white but managed to come home something short of beet-red. Leonardo is a just right brown color and he managed to come home with “tan-lines” as well, remembering how his mother used to warn him against getting “too black.” Normally my ‘sorta red’ will turn to brown by tomorrow, but that’s really not the way to go about acclimating to the sun. It seems to happen at least once a year, though.

So when we got home it was back to work as there is that mural/banner thing staring me in the face and taking up all the room and then some in the studio. The sooner I’m finished…..

Leonardo’s out in the kitchen making Samosas from scratch. Samosas do not excite me the way they are a favorite of his, but they’re ok, and they sure smell good now!

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