In 1929, Georgia O’Keeffe traveled to New Mexico, where she fell in love with the open skies and sun-drenched landscape. She was particularly drawn to the stark but brightly colored red and yellow hills and cliffs of the Ghost Ranch area and its flat-topped mountain, Cerro Pedernal; the white jagged cliff formations near the village of Abiquiu; the cedar trees surrounding the Ghost Ranch house; and the bleached desert bones she collected as she roamed the desert. All became frequent subjects in her work through the 1940s. After walking in her footsteps this weekend, I captured this photo of the Rio Chama, also drenched with the richest colors of the southwest.

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