we were a little slow getting going today, which was and is fine, we're on vacation afterall...we wandered down to the main drag of alpine and then wandered around looking for an espresso shop that was, or so we had read, great...we finally found it, and it was decent and had a coffee and a smoothie there before heading off to marfa to begin our day there wandering around. you have to book in advance for the tours at the chinati foundation so i did that this morning online and we're all set-up for tomorrow. it's a two part tour, one at ten a.m and the second half at 2 p.m. a whole lot of art tomorrow...judd style.there are a lot of galleries here for how small the area is and we saw a lot of them today...we also stopped by a winery called the Luz de Estrella winery that has won some awards for their vino...after sampling some of their stock shauna was not impressed but we did have a very good conversion with the kid who was manning the shop. he had grown up in marfa and gave us some good info about the area. they had some cool little pooches there that just seemed to roam around and sit in the shade of the cars parked there.
when we got into marfa we parked and went into a gallery there that had three pieces from andy warhol's 'last supper' - something i know nothing about. at the gallery we struck up a conversation with the woman taking care of business there, gretchen lee coles, who is an artist herself living and working in marfa. she used to teach at some big US university in chicago but now lives here in a converted shed of sorts. we went by her place because she was/is having an outside art exhibit outside her place based, essentially, on 'x' marks the spot.
marfa has a couple fancyish restaurants and tonight we choose the blue javelina located just at the entrance to marfa. a nice place that's understated and somewhat casual with a decent menu...i wasn't crazy about my meal but it has more to do with what it was not how it was - if that makes sense....shauna had a largeish salad with avacado, prawns and bacon...she loved it...also we had a quatro leche cake for dessert with caramel that we loved and, in fact, ordered a second piece of.
now, time to sleep and get ready for the big judd action tomorrow morning....
night night.
g. xo
here are a lot of pictures from today.
shauna tries on the mascot head of the university here. nice.
the luz de estrella winery.
what would donald do?
wine doggies.
no guns in the gallery please.
no grapes in the winery right now.
nice little house in alpine.
downtown alpine.
andy.
marfa.
our hotel in alpine.
more judd love.
more marfa.
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