PATTERNS AND TONES

My fascination with Adobe structures has lead me to seek out and photograph as many of them as I can. I have located over 44 Adobes just in the Los Angeles basin that I hope to capture in natural light over the next few years. This summer, I was fortunate enough to actually stay inside two amazing Adobes in Twentynine Palms:   The Hayes Adobe and Irene's Adobe at the 29 Palms Inn located on the west end of the 9,000 year old Oasis of Mara . I have always been intrigued with the history behind Irene's Adobe since the first time my husband and I stayed in the Bottle Room which is a part of the 29 Palms Inn . The Adobe was built in 1933 by The Stubb Brothers for Gerald Charlton, a landscape architect from British Columbia. Mr. Charlton originally dubbed the Adobe "La Querencia", which is Spanish for a place where one feels safe and at home, a place where you can truly be yourself. Mr. Charlton's second wife  Irene Zimmers Charlton  inherited the prope...