I am not much of an outdoorsperson. (I’m an INterior designer, after all.) So if I’m writing about something in the natural world, you know it made a big impression. When we arrived in Santa Fe this past weekend, my hostess with the mostest, Laura Heon, said that we were lucky ducks indeed: the Aspens were starting to turn.
Now, I grew up in the foothills of the Adirondacks and went to graduate school in the Berkshires, so I know a thing or two about georgeous fall foliage. But this was heart-stopping, because the Aspens all turn yellow.
Eye-searing, mind-blowing yellow. Yellowyellowyellow. YELLLLLLOOOWW.
I’ve never seen anything like it. The yellow leaves and white trunks against the dark evergreens and the sharp blue sky – it was so dramatic. I don’t know if it would occur to me to put a medium royal blue next to intense yellow, but it sure works here, doesn’t it?
(My friend Laura, by the way, is the director of SITE Santa Fe, which has got to be one of the most cutting-edge institutions around. If you ever have occasion to see an exhibition Laura curated, you really should. Even if you don’t think you like contemporary art. You’ll learn something.)
More on Santa Fe next time…I actually went INSIDE a few places, I promise you…
