She walked up the driveway in the single-digit pre-dawn dark to scrape the windshield like she always does, all this before driving off to exercise at 6:30 a.m. I don’t know how she does either, frankly. On this particular morning, all the doors were frozen shut—a higher order of problem, since the ice scraper was [...]
mountains
I’m a sucker for this stuff, all right
This is from Friday morning, after it rained from afternoon to midnight. I love it when the clouds actually touch the mountains. That cloud-mountain interface is one of the best things about living where it isn’t flat. I could sit and watch this stuff all day. Sometimes in warmer weather, that’s exactly what we do [...]
Still running 10 to 15 degrees above average here
Oh, you’ll find it. This is a telephoto shot, but I could hear him (?) squawking all the way across the road. It was all of a piece: a welcome end to Thursday night’s rain, the light about to break through low-hanging clouds, the raven calling the sun. Just a couple hundred feet above us, [...]
This year-round resident is not a harbinger of spring
Earlier that afternoon I tried to sleep, but I was just too tense. (Daytime naps are sometimes dangerous for me, due to things that wander in behind closed eyes.) After dinner, standing beside the wood store, my eyelids weighed a thousand pounds. I looked up at the clock: “Hey, it’s only seven-thirty! I am so [...]
Looking south from Taos Valley Overlook
I made it. For all the bridges burned and lessons learned, I made it, almost like I conquered time. There’s nothing now but what there is, and here I am. I have to say this feels like some relief. I don’t take out the garbage while I beat myself, I just take out the garbage. [...]
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