Thanks to neighbors Lori and Mike for the photo of their Sara visiting at their place with the young, free-roaming horse.
Thanks to neighbors Lori and Mike for the photo of their Sara visiting at their place with the young, free-roaming horse.
Young Ladderback eyeing my feeder; snow on the mountain; possibly New Mexico’s toughest Christmas cactus blooming; first Western Bluebird sightings at 6,000 feet.
Disorganized late night research led to my iPhone photograph of dawn this morning. It started with Season 6, Episode 7 of Grantchester on Sunday night and my fascination with Leonard’s sermon on forgiveness to fellow prisoners. This led to the sermon’s biblical root, Esphesians 4:32, and an email to the Grantchester episode’s writer, Daisy Coulam, …
Sunlight pierces the window precisely at 6:30 a.m. I feign sleep but sense brown eyes penetrating my deceit. I know the flutter of an eyelid, a shift of sore hips, one lateral move of a blanketed foot will mean my 50-pound blue heeler leaping onto the bed and draping his torso across mine. For Cowboy, …
Cowboy surveys a mesa that after a wetter spring would be blanketed with yellow Fendler bladderpods. Our walking friend Lori gives a drink to a Blackfoot Daisy. Perky Sues are few and far between. The latest haboob clouds the watermelon mountain and a ridgetop subdivision. Survivors include a whiptail lizard and a piñon seedling passed …
dream ranch 