folk art market colors

This was the first year that we've gone to the International Folk Art Market since - well, we think 2008.  In this time, it's become bigger, better organized, slightly less funky, but with an extraordinary amount of really quality work on sale.  Why the gap in our attendance?  We've been in Colorado Springs, in England, or just plain lazy.   But today, we were up at the crack of dawn (an Early Bird entrance ticket is clearly the way to go) and were up on Museum Hill before it was too hot and crowded.  It was probably a very good thing that Alice kept me moving along, or I would be downloading and sighing over three thousand pictures ... so I focused on colors and shapes;

very few people, this time;

and then I just loved all the incidentals: the paper flowers marking the steps;

the hangings from portales;

the glimpses of outside through tent sides;

the behind-the-scenes boxes of decoration;

and, for those who were going to have to wait for a bus back down to Santa Fe late in the day (and the park and ride system worked extremely well), an attempt to make crowd cattle-pens look, at the very least, festive.

Nothing here was purchased by us ... you'll have to wait for images of that ...