The motif is late pseudo-southwest. The location is in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains, west face, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

I had grown up in adobe houses along the ditch banks of the irrigation systems that spread the seasonal waters of the Rio Grande into the fields where we raised our orchards and our gardens and rode our horses. I did not understand the encroachment of suburban development upon the mountains that had always been, for me, a refuge of isolation."

              Will Johnstone