A Glorious Morning Sky

We had another beautiful sunrise this morning. This time of year seems to bring the Lord's glory out for everyone to see and enjoy.



And a few mornings ago, the trees all looked like they were on fire from the early sunrise:



The snow has all melted. The weather is cold and windy today. Most likely there will be no snow for the Christmas weekend.



The new wood stove is doing a marvelous job. I'm warm at night now.

The Garden and The Rains

We have had lots of rain this year. It's been wonderful. Since I moved up here, the fields have been brown in August, but not this year. Green fields and flowers everywhere.



The last week or so we've had some real heavy rains. The weeds are doing well too. And August is sunflower month. There is a huge one between the corn and the potatoes.














The tomato plant on the porch survived the hail and the tomatoes have pock marks from the hail but it keeps going. Looks pretty ragged, but the first fruit off it this morning was delicious.

A Schizophrenic Day in Mora, NM

Early this am the skies were clear and blue. I took a picture of a pot with California poppies that had just bloomed this week. It sits on the front porch with some tender garden items, namely a lonely string bean bush plant just starting out and a tomato plant and raspberry ground cover plant. I keep them up there because there is protection from the wind.

About 3PM we had a hail and rain storm that blew through. Remember, this is high mountain terrain and anything can happen. Hail in the summer is not uncommon It dumped a few inches of rain and hail with lots of thunder and lightening and went off. Hope the garden survived the hail part.

Ah, another storm coming through now at 3:3-PM. Sure going to be wet for awhile. :)

March Storms

I'm always taking pictures but never seem to get them up here. We had snow last night again which fell on old patches still around from a week ago. this is good snowball snow, too. You don't want to be walking under the trees when they let go of some of that snow.

This snow should melt faster since the overall temp is higher than back in the new year so it should melt faster than before.

Three of the four dogs enjoy it and the old dog, Nipper, stays inside where it's warm and comfortable. The little border collie is waiting for me to pick up her kong to throw it for her. She's paying zero attention to the other two. That kong defines her existence. She very carefully drops it in front of me and then points her nose to it so I don't miss it.

Early this am I shoveled the walk before the dogs made it into an ice rink. At least I'll be able to get the car later on. If they pack it down by walking all over it there, it can get very slippery.