Sparkles

After it rained cats and dogs

the world sparkled.

Aglow

Your Lady glows in the light of the setting sun,

reinforced by the pink hues of lingering smoke.

While the Wallow fire in Arizona still threatens to jump the borders in to New Mexico, a new fire broke out in northern New Mexico, in Raton, near the Colorado Border. We learn a new sense of gratitude when the winds shift and the smoke disperses anywhere else but in to our homes. We humans can be so short sighted. Now should we pray for rain?

Rain!

 

Hooray, rain arrived only one day after my rain barrel hit bottom and I had run out of my supply of harvested rain from roof run off. We have had very little rain this Spring so far and also considerably less snow fall, even in the mountains this winter. We likely are already in a drought again here in the high desert, even with the downpour we experienced last night. Watering plants already has been limited to once a week, so the plants are feasting on the available moisture and we are celebrating a for us not so ordinary rain fall. I ran out first thing this morning with camera in hand and captured some of the splendor on green leaves mostly, as there are not yet too many blossoms out in bloom.