Between the EARTH & SKY
The road that winds up the hills above Old Santa Fe Trail leads to a seemingly inhospitable wilderness where the air is thin and junipers and ponderosa pines provide cover for coyotes. On one of the peaks, an adobe clings stubbornly to the hillside, its portals open to rugged desert, an amphitheater of mountains, and shimmering copper sunsets.
Even in a place as charismatic as Santa Fe, New Mexico, this house, and the piece of land it sits on, stands out. Perched on a ridgeline next to Sun and Moon mountains, it overlooks the sprawling city, the Galisteo Basin, and, beyond, the Jemez range. The silence up there is so complete, you can hear the flutter of a hummingbird’s wings.
Bill and Christine Aylward felt the property’s pull the moment they first encountered it, in 2004. “The minute I saw it, I knew it was the house I wanted,” Bill says. “We must have looked at 30 other houses, but it didn’t matter.” He was impressed by the Pueblo-style, true
