Roque Tudesqui House - Historic Santa Fe Foundation

even though I'm sure it's put on for the tourists, which I never seem to see.
[How its changed!)
August 30,1960
I planted a butterfly bush and a mahonia today. We had a nic
shower this afternoon; how good it sounded and smelled. Spent the after
noon with sweet, old Olive Rush. I went over to see her and her charmin,
old adobe and beautiful gardens on Canyon Road. [Now that is th
Friends Meeting House.] She has lived there for forty years and plantel
all the big trees herself. I love her paintings. They have a fairy story quali
like elves, fairies, and pixies--charming and lovely. I came home wi
flowers, apples, and plants. [Many of my plants are starters from he.
All my Castilian roses and my hen-and-chickens, my Li~v of the Val
ley. The crab apple tree in the patio was just a little tiny twig when
planted it. That was from her garden too.]
September 1, 1960
Somehow three weeks have gone by since Boris left. I don't kno
how; it's so lonely and empty and pointless. Locked in my adobe walls,
feel like the princess locked in her tower waiting for the knight on a whi
horse to rescue her.
Watched the "flfst-of-the-month parade" up and down Alto Strl
Even the taxis were busy tearing up and down. Women loaded down wi
bags and boxes, smoking tailor -mades. A day for celebration and a nigh!
too, I'm sure. Tomorrow night I'm taking Olive to see the burning 0
Zozobra and the melodrama. It's Fiesta and I suppose I should see som
of it, although I don't look forward to it without Boris. No word from
for over a week. How much longer will it be?
TO BE CONTINUED
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