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Painting and meditating at Mrs. Bobb's Garden in Santa Fe. Between the famous Canyon Road and Alameda Street in Santa Fe is a 4 acre garden created by the 98 year old Mrs. Bobbs beginning in the 80's. With the help of assistants the garden is still flourishing. She and her garden are Santa Fe treasures. I joined the Santa Fe Pleinarians to paint in the garden today, Sep 4, 2018. As I walked around the garden with wonderment that such a place could exist, I studied many potential scenes to paint. My fellow peinarians began to set up and paint, some doing sketches first. I became intrigued however with a sculpture that defies the eyes and brain:  I decided to look up the history of Mrs Bobbs' Spiral and found this quote from npr.org (click  here  for full article): " Mrs. Bobbs was persuaded to dabble in the altogether unfamiliar. She now has a vibrant and colorful undulating sculpture created by Santa Fe artist   Hillary Riggs , in the shape of a   logarithmic sp