Lost in the Woods Knitting Retreat at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico -- March 2006. The following photos are a few highlights. For a complete photo record, click here or on the Flickr badge at left for a slide show without photo descriptions, etc.

View from the road between Abiquiu and Ghost Ranch.

Susan Sarri of Sisu Designs, a small yarn shop in Ely, Minnesota waaay up north near the Boundary Waters. Susan conducts several Lost in the Woods Knitting Retreats every year in northern Minnesota. Each spring for the last five - six years, she also has led a retreat at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico. So what did we do at knitting retreat?

There were pretty knitted ponies (this one by Martha from South Dakota in Koigu, of course)

and other beautiful knitting (Idella Moberg from Minnesota's own fairisle design)

and, of course, cocktails every evening before dinner.  (What is Kathy Connelly from Minnesota drinking?)

and there were these knitted tights designed by Anna S., also from Ely. Knit in Trekking.

Short rows in the butt!

And scenery (no matter how many times I visit Abiquiu, I still lose my breath when I see this landscape and I never, ever tire of it)

and snow!  The last morning of the retreat.

And the road home. That's Georgia O'Keefe's Pedernal.

Perhaps my most favorite thing about knitting retreat at Ghost Ranch is that my Minnesota knitting friends come and visit and knit. Every year after Christmas and New Year's, I begin anticipating this retreat and my time with these women and the anticipation always makes me smile through those first winter months of the year.