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Subtle Sunset Hallucinations (Pictures of a Trip of the Imagination)
~~By NM-GRL
Yesterday we had ANOTHER snow storm…a heavy wet snow that resulted in a couple of inches and some shoveling for old times sake for me. Of course, by today, you would never known it had ever happened!
But it’s cold and a wind moved off most of the leftover clouds. Tonight, I was out just as the sun was setting and just had to run to get the camera. The sky over the Organ Mountains was especially sublime…the pictures really don’t do it justice, but here goes:
Sometimes we get clouds that look like flying saucers. This one over the peaks certainly is not the most perfect of examples, but the location and the colors….it will have to do! For a moment I thought I was watching the craft from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” descending to pick me up…
A close encounter?
Then, I noticed to the left, a sight over the St. Augustin Pass that made me wonder if I were seeing a wormhole of sorts. Time rippled around the edges of this massive gateway:
A wormhole?
Then, a closer look revealed what looked like a distant, imaginary mountain range covered in snow as I looked through the pass:
A far away mountain range? Shangri-La?
The colors of the mountain changed into a copper glow….was I on a red planet, like Mars, near an icecap?
Copper Mountains
As the light ran out, I returned to the house and back to planet Earth to cook dinner…But it had been a lovely dream!
An Early Season Snowstorm with a Magnificent Reward…(Pics, including an adorable dog, too)
~~By NM-GRL (IA)
Okay, last time I posted it was green chile time…but hectic months stopped me from getting up a couple of ideas…but they will go up!
Today I awoke to our first snow of the season….several weeks early, by my reckoning…and quite a bit more dramatic than usual. It started yesterday afternoon with a nasty, cold rain and overnight it shifted over to snow.
The big deal here is not just getting snow on the ground (although it was already gone from the streets and sidwalks by the time I woke up!). For me, it is watching the stormy weather clear and getting a clear view of the Organ Mountains and the snow on them!
So, here’s how it unfolded over the last 24 hours:
As you can see, Slick wasn’t particularly interested in getting up this morning! In fact, all the dogs were not going out yesterday and it was a cliffhanger for a couple of them in terms of how long their bladders would hold out. Even Slick rebelled at the cold rain late in the afternoon, although I got him out for about 2 seconds to pee pee. Toro went out into the backyard, but Tico stayed put in the back of his crate all day until I threw him outside after things cleared today! He is deathly afraid of storms…we adopted him from the animal shelter in February 2002. He had spent a month with people who had found him in a ditch. He was about 6 months old when we got him, so I figure he was out in some pretty cold, rotten weather as a baby. So, I can understand his penchant for hiding under the bed, in his crate, and generally refusing to go out at all.
Slick Lingers in (My) Bed
I don’t blame him, because this was going on outside:
It was still snowing in fits and starts...
Fence Peaks
Not Even the Birds Were Out for Their Morning Meal...
Pretty icky for these parts, but sissy weather for back in New Jersey! But, it’s so fleeting here, that this sort of raw, cold, dreary sort of weather is a shock!
Ah, but then it began to clear…the clouds started rolling away and sun came…and finally, I went out to the back…and…
The Organs Show Off Their Winter Coat...
…At least here there’s a magnificent payoff at the end of the nasty weather!
Saturday Sanity: The Antidote to the Madness (April 18, 2009) Glorious Organ Mountains; Apricots; Quail on the Wall; Sneaky Slick the Min Pin
Originally Posted at InsightAnalytical
~~By NM-GRL (IA)
It’s been a frustrating week in the garden as the winds have continued and the temperatures have dipped the last day or so. I’ve managed to put a couple of veggies and flowers into the patio pots, only to cover them up again to protect them from the weather.
Yesterday I bought a new Belle of Georgia peach to replace the one that is languishing. I’ll get that in the ground over the weekend.
A big surprise is that I found a little apricot growing. One seems to be finally showing on the flower I saw…but this one never seemed to have a flower that I ever saw, so imagine my surprise to see a an actual baby apricot!! Let’s see if anything more shows up!
Last Tuesday I took advantage of the short trip over to my chess teacher’s house and took some wonderful pictures of the Organ Mountains. These views are literally a couple of minutes from my house…I’ll share one with you now:
Organ Mountains 4/14/09 Looking Like a Painting…
New Mexico has wonderful light, which attracts a lot of artists. The changes in the skies and the light that changes from second to second are things which never cease to amaze me.
Closer to home, the quail are beginning to show up on my wall. I love these guys and their plaintive calls.
A Curious Quail…
Finally, Slick the Sneak was into all sorts of trouble yesterday. We left the house for an appointment and when we got back we found garbage all over the floor! This hasn’t happened in quite awhile. It really was close to the boys’ dinnertime, so I guess Slick was the leader of the pack in search of some grub.
This picture, which I took a couple of days ago, shows the little flash of the devil in his eyes:
Sneaky Slick
Let’s hope the winds die down next week! I have to put up the new grape trellises, plant a chocolate flower and really have to decide if I should bag the peaches. So far the squirrels haven’t shown up, which is amazing. I see the papa or mama when I look over the wall and they gobble up the lettuce and other veg scraps I toss over right away. I suppose they’re busy with babies and as they grow, I’m sure they’ll be hunting for a lot more food…including peaches!
Open Range Ramblings 