I am still sick. I tell you this not to garner your sympathy or to whine, but because it is an elegant lesson I’m being offered. I’m being reminded that I don’t get to dictate what will be.
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Wishing You A Very Happy New Year
… because as much as some of us require and embrace solitude, the contemplative life, the still quiet of a high desert New Year’s morning, what do we have without each other?
A Love Affair With Wood
Gathering wood today for cooking and warming fires is an activity as old, beautiful and essential as the ancient need was, up here in the high desert.
Pancakes and Good Coffee
I woke up REALLY early this morning–just more evidence that I’m getting better I think–and I got to start my day with delicious buttermilk pancakes, excellent coffee, good company and a passel of pets curled up all around me.
Coming Down the Mountain
I frequently write about “driving down the mountain,” but I haven’t ever offered you a photographic “tour” of doing so. Yesterday I had a great opportunity to create a visual for you.
Fairy Dust
Have any of you ever seen the kind of snow that I call Fairy Dust? It’s like ultra fine glitter falling from the sky and catching the light just so. Or sugar falling all around picking up the light.
Snowed In In New Mexico
I woke the other morning to a gorgeous sunrise and so much snow that I was snowed in. Out here in the country, high up in the mountains, we don’t get mail delivery to our homes. So I had to walk out…