September was full of reminiscing with friends from high school and graduate school over a weekend trip to Cincinnati. Reunions can bring up such sweet nostalgia— a mixture of warmth and longing…
A riot of colors surrounds the grounds— ripening red tomatoes, delicate dahlias and roses, sunflowers, thistles, lavender, grasses, and fields full of cow pen daisies— bright yellow and waving in the wind!
These vistas of sage and juniper, with running fences, miles of dirt roads and mesas, topped with an ocean of sky— this is what I love about living out in rural New Mexico!
Ah— April! The birds that I have been seeing are mostly year-round residents, but perhaps since I’ve been outside more, I am seeing and hearing these fine, feathered friends!