Abiquiu on the Mesa/ Designer Adobe Deluxe Vacation Home.

Yes there is much to do in our neighborhood if you get tired of relaxing on one of our three down filled couches. There’s Christ in the Desert for a soul touching ride and a quiet prayer, the Abiquiu lake, Ghost Ranch, the amphitheater, ojo caliente, or maybe into Santa Fe for everything artful and delicious. Or maybe just a walk on the Mesa for spectacular light and air ?

We try our best to make our guests as comfortable as we are in our home music art entertainment and Lying on our cozy couches enjoying the beautiful views which surround our home Every season the desert delights us moonrises sunrises sunsets are awe Inspiring we are so blessed to be part of New Mexico enchanting inspiring and incrediblE

Climate change hit our mesa this year as well--there was more snow than ever before (or at least since we've all been living on this beautiful mesa) It made our perfect kiva fireplace the perfect place to be reading or napping on our white down filled couches. And the mesa covered in snow is spectacular! but we all long for spring when thanks to the snow little wild flowers appear and the cactus blooms and our trumpet vines and lavender do their fragrant arrival. We love our mesa home in any weather in any time of year. And we love to share it with others!

The holidays are especially beautiful in Northern New Mexico. At Christmas the farolitos are lit, the posedas sung and the pueblos dance. At New Years the skies are filled with fireworks and stars Easter hundreds of pilgrims walk to Chimayo to pray for miracles It’s a land of celebration and enchantment and in our lovely mesa home we try to honor it all

Our home is a haven for writers poets photographers and painters and all of them have enjoyed its serenity. We created a sweet little studio in the garage with paint and canvases to give it a try to capture some of the beauty. Good WiFi to download your novel paper pens and notebooks for your poetry. The sunsets alone will turn you into an artist' And if you are lucky enough for a moonrise over the Black Mesa then Mother Nature has smiled on you !!!

We often often tell our architect Mike that our favorite place in our home is the oversized eastern facing portale —- when even in the winter we can sit in the sun and sip our coffees gazing out over the black Mesa to the sangre de cristo mountains sometimes covered in snow We installed a fan over the custom made table so we can enjoy the porch even in the heat of the summer sitting on the beautiful bench made by David our incredible wood worker And our sauna is a dream of peace and meditation with David’s beautiful benches and chest. We tried to think of everything to make our home beautiful because we also live in the house and appreciate and are grateful for this home in the Mesa !

Yes our home on this beautiful Mesa is very quiet —amazingly so. And we have tried to provide a very relaxed atmosphere with three down couches to nap, a serene sauna to ease your mind and body and plenty of pinon scented fresh air to assure you a deep sleep at night . Mother Nature and our clever architect has been very good to us in New Mexico !

We have watched our grateful birds for a long time. We even got to see the sand hill cranes this year migrating to the Bosque del Apache — the most incredible bird sanctuary in the Southwest —when 20,000 cranes return for the winter. (One of our guests left a beautiful photo of the cranes from the Bosque ) As many of our guests enjoy our birds our views our beautiful peaceful mesa in a home that we have been built with great care and feeling for nature and its wonders of our Mesa

We are so proud of the sauna---it is beautifully hand stuccoed and our dear David hand crafted all the furniture---its so zen like so meditative especially at sunset with candles. And our beds have soft and warming comforters and great handmade quilts we've made every effort to make our home comfortable and beautiful on our incredible mesa!!!

It is strange that no one has yet mentioned the quiet of our mesa. It is one of my favorite things about being in our home--- the stillness which does indeed touch the soul. We have tried to create a sanctuary both for us and for our guests. Its time to turn off your laptop the tv and just lie on white soft sofas and put your mind at ease. And if you are hikers there are hikes right outside our doors and more challenging ones further up the road. We have nick named our house Rancho Romantico (for the lovers who have gotten married there and for the lovers who have gotten together there) but perhaps 'a New Mexico paradise' suits it too. We think so as do many of our guests.

Yes we’ve filled our home with items made lovingly by friends and local artists. The bird lady made by our gardener from the desert plants watches over the bedroom with the little horses dancing by the ceramics made by Pueblo peoples— our home is filled with drawings and art work of guests and local artists as well as art work from our old art gallery in Los Angeles which keeps the house cozy yet open to the magnificent Mesa light. Our architect is also a local friend who understood the beauty of the Mesa and make sure it’s captured in every perfectly placed window Georgia okeefe is an inspiration certainly to all of us on the Mesa but mostly it’s the incredible light playing on our hand plastered walls creating shadows from the trumpet vines and piñons as the shadows of the birds fly into the brilliant blue skies

Yes it is I do have to admit! Quiet serene zen like---with outstanding views, comfy and tasteful furnishings and lots of things to keep you busy. We love this part of our glorious country and sharing it with you all. Beautiful in every season and after 17 years in this house still new and astonishing things to see. Come and check it out!

These guests were wonderful. They totally took care of our beloved home on the Mesa. I know they appreciated the local art on our walls our well stocked library and our incredible views. It’s been a cold spring but they seemed to have warmed things up with the kiva fireplace — with the well stocked fragrant pinon pine on the portale. I will welcome them back any time !

we are indeed very proud of our road---the neighbors turned it from a mud road to a nicely leveled gravel road---we've put rocks at the end by our home to keep four wheelers from wrecking the beautiful state land that provides us with incredible hikes down to the Chama river and the indian ruins.

They got their share of weather yet found plenty to do with their kids in our house and all around. New Mexico is said to be the sunniest state in the Union and thanks to snow and rain this season it might be the best place in the Union to see desert flowers. But rain or shine our home is ready to enjoy !

We too love our Mesa home. We have spent years caring for it, and years enjoying it !!! The view to the east is of the Sangre de Cristo mountains behind the black mesa has given us the most spectacular moon rises — the northern view of ‘snake hill’ is a must climb The western sunsets are in this tenants words ‘sublime’ and the sunny peace of the southern view is energizing. Yes our home is surrounded by desert beauty. Come and experience it for yourself !

We feel like we are in the center of Northern New Mexico —- gorgeous Georgia O’Keefe land. With beautiful vistas near our home : Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu Lake, Christ in the Desert. And yet close enough to Santa Fe and Taos if you want some city time or some exceptional culture like the Santa Fe opera the O’Keefe museum or the Harwood. Or you can just stay home, lie on our down filled couches and gaze outside at the beauty of the high desert ?

This lovely couple comes back every year at the same time and they seem to enjoy our home on the mesa more and more. (I actually like to make new additions and upgrades to our home and see if they notice it!) They seem to love the chile cheeseburgers at Bodes but I have now discovered some delicious pinon pine Pancakes at the Abiquiu Inn that run a close second and of course not to forget Angelina's brother's Favio Special. Of course cooking at home on our fabulous Viking Stove and eating on our beautiful portale might finally win the Southwest foodie contest.

Our home is bordering hundreds of acres of a state preserve—with beautiful views and beautiful hikes. But for those who just like to gaze at it all our portal to the east is spectacular at sunrise ( Either from bed or from the outdoor table and bench. ) For the more adventurous Ghost Ranch is not far nor the beauty of Abiquiu Lake. Northern New Mexico is a hiker or viewers delight !

Ah that says it all! we love it too. it is indeed very very nice

We live in a remarkable neighborhood. Yes the neighbors are friendly, helpful and their dogs are affectionate but most remarkable are the landscapes that surround our artful and cozy home. We’ve tried to think of everything to make your stay comfortable because sometimes we live there as well! Soft down filled couches beautiful hand made quilts local art music tv books a place to paint our and very serene sauna etc etc. as one tenant said ‘God has smiled on us’

Our home sits on more than 25 acres next to hundred of acres of preserved state land Our huge eastern portale is a great place to watch the sunrises and moon rises over that land with the Black Mesa and the sangre de cristo mountains. And a eat a quiet breakfast in the morning and watch the birds . Outside of our large sauna the southern facing portale is a perfectly quiet place to suntan or cool off after a sauna which I think is one of the most zen like beautiful saunas that I have ever known —//and we go to lots of saunas ! Our home, which we finished building in 2000, is a fantastic array of light and shadow thanks to the expert fenestration done by our wonderful local architect. We are proud of the work we did to make our home special in every season with a view out of every window I can’t wait to get back !!

OH yes to be in front the kiva fireplace--the perfect place to be when napping on our soft sofas with a grand view to the south ---pour a glass of wine while dinner cooks on our Viking stove and play some music to perfectly relax after a nice long sauna or hike on the BLM land across the fence to the East. Im so glad Sarah enjoyed it she was one of many gracious and appreciative guests. She came to happily celebrate her birthday We have nick named our house 'Rancho Romantico' because guests have fallen in love there (to each other and to the mesa) and have even gotten married next to the kiva.