I know that in much of the country you’ve had more snow this winter than you can bear.
But here in New Mexico we’ve been starved for it. We need snow each winter like a flower needs the sun and, finally, we’ve been getting it.
Beautiful, wondrous snow.
I’m finding it too lovely not to shoot and share, so I wanted to do this post just to show you pictures of the snow around my home in the last couple of days…
And what would snow days be without the warmth of Kim’s good country loaf…
… his Italian meat sauce (recipe to come, I promise)…
… simmering on the stove…
…and enticing things to read.
Wishing each of you what you need today.
Love to you all,
Jeane
Thanks, Jeane. XOX to you, your snowflakes, and cozy warmth after a walk outside.
My pleasure my dear Grace.
Thank you and the same to you today! Glad you have snow finally. We have had an overwhelmingly snowy winter with storms weekly here in the Northeast! Even today, March first, it is snowing! Kim’s bread looks wonderful! Something about a snowy day brings one to the kitchen. I making a soup and maybe some cornbread and enjoy the peace of the day.
I’m glad you can enjoy the peace of the day even after all the snow you’ve had. Good for you.
Lovely and hopeful. Are you ever lonely?
Never. Honestly never.
I see at least one of your Cleofas Jaramillo books has arrived in Truchas! You should find her descriptions of New Mexican life gone by entertaining, if wistful. I was especially intrigued by her account of visiting the home of her husband’s relatives in Abiquiu–the same house which much later was purchased by Georgia O’Keeffe and thus entered New Mexican artistic and cultural history for other reasons than the ones which brought it into existence. A marvelous thorough study with copious illustrations of that house is in Barbara Buhler Lynes’ ‘Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Houses’, which I happened to be reading just when Mrs. Jaramillo’s books came to my attention. And thanks for posting those great snowy pictures. We don’t have that kind of weather in San Francisco, so the contrast between your world and the one I inhabit is very striking and makes me look forward to next Fall’s return to New Mexico more than ever. I really enjoy your posts.
Thanks Mark. Yes, I’ve received both of the Jaramillo books and so look forward to reading them. I’ll have to look up the Lynes O’Keeffe book. It would be interesting to be involved in both, as you were, at the same time. I thought O’Keeffe’s Abiquiu house was owned by the Catholic church before she bought it?
[I just ordered the O’Keeffe house book. Thanks for the tip. Oh, to be able to just read for days and days. It’s what I used to do when I took vacations!]
Jeane, I’m kinda chuckling because when I see your blog and home I feel like you live on vacation! Just sayin’
You’re funny but, yes, I know what you mean. I really, really can’t complain.
But really, remember those vacations I used to take on the Oregon coast (you came to visit me there once), just sitting in the sand reading and reading all day. When we’re in our “regular” lives, no matter how beautiful, there’s still always groceries to buy, doctor’s visits, errands to run, TAXES to file, Medicare to deal with, you know the stuff. THAT’S what makes me yearn for the Oregon coast!
Hi Jeane. I wish for the beautiful loaf of bread, but alas not to be! I also wish for your snow, too. The northwest is in for a bumpy summer, with comments like “lowest snow pack in history.” Seems we will have a taste of what you experience each season. Congrats on getting your much needed snowfall… and thanks for the beautiful photos! Looking forward to Kim’s sauce recipe!
He says we have to wait until he makes the NEXT batch! 🙁
Yes, the Abiquiu house was owned by the local Catholic parish, but not for very many years, when O’Keeffe finally acquired it. It had been given to the parish by the local owner, with some restrictions, and you can read about that in the book you’ve ordered. It was a complicated business, in part because the man who had given the house to the church was still very much around, and O’Keeffe had to negotiate with him too. I was reading all this, plus the Jaramillo memoirs, at about the same time I was reading the correspondence between O’Keeffe and her sometime friend Maria Chabot, who helped her with the Ghost Ranch house AND acted as general contractor for the remodeling of the Abiquiu house in the late 1940’s. It’s all fascinating stuff.
Well, I really look forward to digging into it all. My O’Keeffe book has shipped and I can’t wait to read it. I SO wish I was a fast reader but I sort of relish every word and often read whole passages several times just because I like they way they read or feel or I just like what is being said. So a book for me is a long-ish friendship. Am currently reading House of Rain by Craig Childs and am really enjoying it. Patience, patience she says to herself.
I must have a look at ‘House of Rain’! How I managed to read all those books in a short period of time I don’t know, except that they were all so fascinating that it was hard to put any of them down. Normally I only read for pleasure in the evenings, so books generally take me awhile. Slowly is generally the best way to enjoy a book.
Yes, evenings are the only chance I ever get to read anymore so I must continue to nibble away. Although I did just buy an iPod to download books from audible to listen while I walk and I want to re-institute a vibrant walking program to see if I can’t regain some of the strength I’ve lost over the 2 years of shingles. Time to reclaim my body! I think you’ll enjoy House of Rain. I am.