Southwest Living

As most of you know, we have two wonderful new planters at the gallery with a third on the way soon. So Anna and I headed down to Taos the other day to buy plants at the wonderful Petree’s Nursery and Greenhouses

I don’t know how many of you live with cats, but those of us who do, know they really love their comforts. I took this picture of my crew on a cold day after that big snowstorm we had. I really should have shot a series, because they were following the patches of sun across the bed.

I’ve shared so many photos with you all of my house and yard and the views I see from them. But the other day, while sitting the gallery, I realized I’d never given you a perspective of where I live. This view of my house from the gallery is one of my favorites.

It has been 60 and 70 degrees up here in Truchas, New Mexico. Song birds had arrived, the grasses were putting up shoots of new growth, trees were beginning to bloom, we were playing games outside in our shirtsleeves–until the other night.

There is a flock of wild turkeys that live out behind my house – about ten to fifteen birds I would say. I don’t know how many of you have ever experienced wild turkeys before but they are VERY big, heavy, lumbering birds. I particularly love the huge footprints they leave behind in the snow or mud – as big as my hands, I swear.

Almost as suddenly as it appeared, winter seems to be leaving us pretty much over night. We’ve had 60 degree days, and now this week, 70 degrees. So our much-needed precipitation has turned from snow to rain.

Truchas Peaks, actually a series of three peaks to comprise what most of us think of as one mountain, stands 13,024 feet at its highest point, making it the second highest peak in New Mexico. A part of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Truchas Peaks majestically watches over my little village of Truchas.