Outdoor Spaces
When you stay at The Skies, you will find yourself moving in concert with the sun. Depending on the season and the time of day, you will gravitate towards warmth and brightness or cool shade. Summer and early fall are the times for breakfasting or lunching at a wooden table in the covered, front courtyard or "portale". The birds will be around too. You may see a hummingbird working at finding its breakfast.
There is also a shaded, protected corner outside the French door of the great room where plums and iris blossom in the spring.
On summer evenings, once the sun is low and the air has cooled, you will want to sit out on the broad south patio to watch the sky change from day to evening. You may enjoy cocktails or an early supper on the patio and cook on the gas or charcoal barbecue grill. A small stone bench beyond the patio is the perfect place from which to watch the sunset.
On a windy spring day, you may choose to grab a book and read in the private walled courtyard outside the master bedroom, where there is a decorative "horno", the traditional Pueblo bread-baking oven. An archway leads from here to the clothesline in back where clothes dry in minutes --- wet rafters take note. This is also the side of the house from which you are most likely to see a hot air balloon floating in the distance.
Newly-arrived walkers may wish to practice their altitude-readiness on the long dirt road leading to the house. There are horses in a field at the base of the road. You may walk through the sage, but you should come equipped with hiking boots.
Cars may be parked by the archway leading to the front portale or around the back of the house, to the South.
There is also a shaded, protected corner outside the French door of the great room where plums and iris blossom in the spring.
On summer evenings, once the sun is low and the air has cooled, you will want to sit out on the broad south patio to watch the sky change from day to evening. You may enjoy cocktails or an early supper on the patio and cook on the gas or charcoal barbecue grill. A small stone bench beyond the patio is the perfect place from which to watch the sunset.
On a windy spring day, you may choose to grab a book and read in the private walled courtyard outside the master bedroom, where there is a decorative "horno", the traditional Pueblo bread-baking oven. An archway leads from here to the clothesline in back where clothes dry in minutes --- wet rafters take note. This is also the side of the house from which you are most likely to see a hot air balloon floating in the distance.
Newly-arrived walkers may wish to practice their altitude-readiness on the long dirt road leading to the house. There are horses in a field at the base of the road. You may walk through the sage, but you should come equipped with hiking boots.
Cars may be parked by the archway leading to the front portale or around the back of the house, to the South.