Old Town Albuquerque to Centering Pueblo Kiva Rio Grande Mountain Energy

 Albuquerque area by the Rio Grande and by the Sandia Mountains ------

 
Fun to have a place to center for day trips, visiting Misun Don and Hankashi Jane who have a new place in Albuquerque on the slope up to the Sandia Mountains here where we are visiting them and Jane's mom, Unci Betty and Jane's sister Susan.  Here are the two clocks in Don's office.  Red and orange enchanting NM time and green and white Ohio, McFeely's time.  Don works for a company that serves woodworkers and develops marketing stuff and goes to Ohio off and on.

 

Here is Don in the AM on our way to Old Town, at his wood shop community space. 

 A large turning that Don has done, and a box of McFeely's products he is delivering for a colleague.

 Don showing me the work bench he is creating here, so he can do more production stuff here.

 
Walk in Old Town ABQ with Don, to get some walking in. 

 Red pepper posole I had for lunch at Duran's crowded drug store in Old Town, with Jane, Don, and Unci Betty.

 

 Some chimayo style Weavers, wool usually. 

 One Weaver from the North East of Turtle Island in Old Town ABQ,

 
Here is Peg Weaver's chimayo that her Glessner Parents picked up for her around 1928-30 likely along the Santa Fe, and maybe in ABQ when the Train stopped in downtown ABQ. Peg had it on her bed when she attended Oberlin College in Ohio.  Sister Jane has been taking care of it and now back in New Mexico! 

Knife wing Zuni image at one of the vendors in Old Town ABQ.

Kauna Pueblo Ancient Ruins Site, formerly marketed as Coronado Historic site Entry point .  Place of kiva paintings, a few 14, are here, and discernment about sacred rituals for the Pueblo nations, as a place of peace and understanding for me.  Felt a balanced peace while here.  And here is a video I found on line.  Rio Grande and the Ruins of Kauna Pueblo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t3U_-NjkhU


Traditional Corn, Gourds, cotton, devils claw , plant people used in a traditional pueblo community in the museum for teaching demos.
 
Inside the museum some descriptions of pueblo architecture.
  
Our docent, explaining about pueblo adobe made with stones and earth, not the bricks that the Spanish made with forms and all.


 Yours Truly with my large flexible frame, climbing out through a 5' doorway. Don Roden photo.

 
Pueblo doorway, with Tom W, yours truly with hankashi "Sister" Jane Newell, by Don Roden 

 Kiva structure with docent in blue and Don as well prepare to enter the kiva space underground.

 
Sister Jane ready to descend into the space of the kiva below. 
 
Serene site, of the ancient Pueblo Village..........Mitakuye Oyasin