Link: Is Santa Fe Ready for a Makeover? – New York Times
The late sun doesn’t just gleam on the old adobe edifice. It’s deeper
than that. The red and orange that lights up on the walls, over the
heads of the exiting crowd, seems to come from deep within them. The
low light tranforms the scene into a vision.
That light — the cottonwood-filtered sunlight of the morning, the thick
orange-juicy light of the evening; a light that matches other famed
atmospheres, such as Venice’s gauzy haze or Provence‘s
luminosity — is one reason why Santa Fe seems to exert such power over
both the people who live there and the ones who return year after year.
Powerful, too, is the pull of its history, a history that is solidified
in the mud of its buildings and that seems almost palpable, like some
slow-moving river that cuts through the center of the city. Yet around
town, there is a sense of change. People are talking about a New Santa
Fe.
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