Marfa

For our one year anniversary we took a trip down to south texas. It was a long car ride full of rambling conversations, audiobooks, and lots of picture taking. We stayed a few nights in Alpine, did Marfa for the day, and then a few nights in Big Bend. We did some gallery shopping, some site seeing, some car sickness(thanks starlight cafe), and a whole lot of together time....which for me was the best part. Every artist should make his or her hommage to the great and powerful Marfa, it truly is the OZ of art. If you didn't know any better you would speed through the sleepy town without so much as a sneeze. During the day it's quiet, dusty, and hot...The legend of the Marfa lights is something to be....ignored? at night it gets so cold you just want to bundle up by a bonfire....not freeze your buns waiting for the mystery lights to fly across the dark desert sky. I would say the true Marfa lights are all the artists that come crawling out of their studios at night for a glass of wine on the porch of the swanky restaurant (singular not plural)...Tossing their heads back going ON about which show they were not a part of or which piece of their current series was giving them a "real-head-ache". We felt like we were on the set of some movie about the true artistis of our time. While in the presence of true greatness we held hands, sipped wine, and played along with our fellow cast  members. Oh what a time you were little Marfa...just a skipping stone away from the horse back rides and endless views of Big Bend.