I was surprised to see at 7:30 a.m. how little water was running in the channels on either side of my Placitas ridge. Either it ran out fast into Las Huertas before dawn or the ground is thirstier than I thought. The creek bed, lower right, still had a small flow but it never had …
What surely will go down in New Mexico as some kind of record-breaking string of storms persisted at dreamranch, an easy crane flight from the juncture of the Jemez and the Rio Grande, early today. I thought I could sleep through the rolling thunder and lightning flashes at 3 a.m., then the downpour, but my …
It’s Sept. 13 and raining. Third rainy morning this week. I can see farthest to the east, clouds lifting slightly, but the kitchen on the west side of my home still dark at 7 a.m. Who turns on the lights after sunrise in a house with many windows and no curtains? I use a flashlight …
Wordless at the end of the week. Clouds will have to do.
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