Outlaws in High Places

What do you call someone who is the mother-in-law of your husband's nephew? You're really not related, so since she's not an In-law, we decided to call her an outlaw ;-) I'm speaking of our good friend and pseudo relative, Bonnie Frost. She came to stay overnight with us in our little Casita here in Santa Fe so we could all go to hear the Opera singers together and she wouldn't have to drive back to Albuquerque late at night.
After a delicious breakfast at Bagelmania (I had Eggs Benedict) we took a tour of the Supreme Court. Her late husband was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, so they lived in Santa Fe for several years. It was a wonderful experience for us to be able to see all the courtrooms, meet some of the employees and visit the huge Law Library and the courtroom where Judge Frost had been when he was Chief Justice. We also were able to meet and visit with one of the judges who sat on the bench with her husband. It was something that you don't get to do every day and we thoroughly enjoyed it. You can see Judge Frost's courtroom in the photographs as well as Frank and Bonnie discussing some very important issues. Can't imagine what was so serious!
After our tour, we drove to El Dorado to see the houses that she and the Judge had built and also lived in while they were here. I was amazed at how much the area has grown. We haven't been there for a couple of years and there are houses everywhere now. El Dorado is only about 15 - 20 minutes from downtown Santa Fe, so it's a great place to live with wonderful views if you want to get away from the hustle and bustle of tourists in Santa Fe. It is still close enough to be able to enjoy all the wonderfulness of the City Different.
Bonnie left a little after noon and we decided to go to two of our favorite galleries in Santa Fe, the Meyer and the Manitou. I can never spend enough time in these wonderful places. The Meyer, located on Canyon Road,
http://www.meyergalleries.com/
just had an exhibition of Milt Kobayashi works and they were wonderful. A show of Robert Daughters works opens this Friday and we plan on going.
The Manitou is downtown on Palace Street and has artists that we have followed for years. http://manitougalleries.com/ A visit to Santa Fe is incomplete without visiting both of these wonderful galleries.
We arrived back home just in time to take a little break and then we went to dinner with our friends, Mary Dare and Oren Ellis. We met them nearly 20 years ago in El Paso when we were Ministry Consultants for The Anglican Institute and were traveling with Bishop Michael Marshall. Their former parish, St. Francis on the Hill, was one of our Ministry Centers. They were living in El Paso then where Oren practiced medicine specializing in Orthopedic Surgery. When he retired from practice they decided to make their permanent home in Santa Fe (where they had maintained a condo for years), so they built a wonderful home in the Sangre de Cristo Estates and we have been able to visit with them on a regular basis. We would not have been able to see them as often if they had stayed in El Paso.
We had a lovely evening with them as we always do. They celebrated my birthday early by treating us to dinner at Maria's where we all celebrated together last year for my 70th. They were at the party last year, so we had yet another trip down Memory Lane.
This is all I have to report right now. We have big plans for tomorrow, so I'll wait and report them after the fact. No rest for he wicked!
Pcasso