A post everyday for 2013: the sunset. Each morning over a cup of coffee with my co-workers we remark on the beauty of the morning's sunrise or the previous evening's sunset. We talk about the moonset or the rainstorm's cloudburst, and sunset over the hills from the evening before. It reminds me of how the sunrise …
Category: New Mexico
There was snow on Christmas Eve
It is actually pretty rare to have a Christmas Eve where it begins to snow. My husband and I only remember once before this year where we were lucky enough to truly experience a white Christmas. And such a beauty it was to wake up to a fresh blanket across the valley. It seemed to …
Fall Festivals: Enjoying the best of the sunshine and small town beauty
Once the harvest is mostly complete, we sure do know how to have fall festivals. Before the snow sets in and we all head indoors for the winter, the weekends are full of arts and crafts, wool, films, funnel cakes, chile and music. Fall festivals in northern New Mexico always remind me of how truly …
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Rural homes: sticks, mud, bricks or…
Fifteen years ago when I moved from St. Louis out west, one thing I learned was that a home was something that many folks built themselves, even if they weren't contractors as a profession. This concept was new to me - that people who worked full-time in other jobs would build themselves a home. They …
Raising Chickens
Birds are crafty creatures. They’re busy bodies too. After a year of raising chickens my son have a pretty thriving business going. We have steady egg clients, and we have grown to enjoy our chickens like backyard pets. We have found that chickens are strange and beautiful creatures. They spend their days sunbathing–spreading their wings …
Farmers’ markets and the best of summer small town
Farmers' markets in mid-summer in small towns abound with flowers, honey, vegetables and fresh fruit from local trees. Locals sitting in the backs of pick-ups talking with friends, selling my favorite green gage plums, grapes, chile and other summer produce are a lovely reminder of small town beauty. A Saturday morning in the center of …
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