The Door Yard in Taos

Where memory, imagination, and Aliens collide

Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, Where Georgia O’Keefe Painted, photo by the author, John Levin

For years, there was the strangest open air bazaar we would pass by on the Paseo Del Pueblo Sur, the main street in Taos, New Mexico, just a couple blocks north from the Plaza. It sold ancient weathered doors from Spanish ranchos and haciendas, all on display for touch, vividness, and admiration in a once grassy yard. There was a little house at the…