Showing posts with label Snow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Snow. Show all posts

Equanimity


Snow at last! A very wet, heavy and messy snow.  I hope my pups bladders are strong and can wait for relief for a good while longer. Meanwhile, I will take out their home cooked favorite food (chicken innards with sweet potatoes) to mollify them. Living with three furry ones in one open studio is a challenge during and after snow and rain storms. My pups do know how to stay put and dry out on a towel at the ready for them on our return home. My little guy, Sumo, good at avoiding puddles will likely need a bath upon return home from our current mess. Ah, I do remember those times when fresh snow was exciting, when a wooden sled was near, and a lot of fun was to be had right across the field and up on the hill. 

These days I fail to feel the sense of equanimity my little laughing buddha so perfectly displays, but year after year his snow covered happy face delights and inspires me nonetheless. 



Today's Walk With Sumo


Blessed with more snow and a sun that is breaking through, Buddha's cover will not last, it's time for our walk.


Sumo illegally off lead in our Railyard park.


Such a cutie our little Sumo-boy with his snow face as he blends in so nicely.


Sumo loves to sample snow.


Hm, where are those ground squirrels hiding now?


Humongous Green Coyote by Doug Kennel manages to look cute even while covered in snow.



Eric, now a grandfather, so hard at work at clearing access to his Railyard Performance Art Space, he did not even crack a smile for us.


Winter Market vendor not shy at all about having his picture taken.


Our colorful 'hood, love it.


Buddha uncovered by mid-afternoon and laughing, yeah!


Glorious Luscious Long Late Light


Optimist


The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in the Santa Fe Railyard where it does take an optimist to try and sell anything. As you can see, barely a soul in sight, our downtown Railyard deserted most of the time, here just after noon at lunch time. That is the reason an otherwise very popular coffeeshop Flying Star, across from what is now the Violet Crown cineplex, pulled out and closed. I did see though later a man walk away from this new in our 'hood mobile food cart with a cup of something presumably perfect and delicious.


Temperatures were to drop in to the single digits even during the day, but the wind is not as bad as had been predicted, so our walk with dogs was rather enjoyable, no more mud or funky puddles, all either dried up or frozen over.





Furry friends in small spaces in combination with snow and ice, make for plenty of challenges!





Signed,

Mermaid out of her element in the high desert.

In Dire Need of Equanimity



My world got blanketed in pure white first snow and looked just like this. 
Alas, I need all the equanimity I can muster to walk my pups on lead across icy grounds.


First Snow

Can puppies drown in snow?
 They can plow through amazing deep white fluff.
Isabella-girl loves snow, can barely get enough.

Burden Bearing Buddha

Burden Bearing -

                                       - Still Smiles!

       Do you believe god gives us only as much to bear as we can handle?

Winterscape


Temperatures dipped to the lowest in 40 years, minus 16 degrees, but I managed very nicely without heat. I might mention that the day before my space was warmed for my massage clients. Still it tickled my fancy to make do without. The inside of my glass sliding doors showed some white frost in the morning, but the rather flimsy curtains kept the cold in check.

In fact the cold served me well while defrosting the fridge and leaving the contents of my icebox out for the night. It worked perfectly.

Next day though, still in the thick of a cold spell, we got a request from our utility company to lower   our thermostats voluntarily as there were rolling black outs due to some power failure in neighboring Texas. As if we needed more reasons to despise Texans (Death Penalty and the Bushes, do I need to mention more?) or corporate utility companies. Well service got caught of anyhow, with no advance warning. I assume, I am not sure, lots of folks still use wood burning stoves, I hope.

An animal shelter without heat and water is though no laughing matter. Blessed be all those that rose to the occasion and took home with them some of the 140 animals in need or brought them electric heaters for temporary use. The farmers that did depend on gas to heat their greenhouses never got a warning, so their crops have died, how awful is that. It will take at least 2 months for another crop to mature. Imagine their livelihood gone, just like that, and our food prices up, also just like that!

I hope the Gas Company gets sued, even if it will raise our fees further. Well, as I have said before, my gas heater has been off for decades, I get by mainly with passive solar heat. On an occasional second cloudy day I may employ electric heat. Of course my clients deserve to stay warm, so during their visits I will use heaters. But my bill was only $25 more then regular for last month and still under $60. How is it that China and Germany get most of their energy from solar sources and we in the Land of Enchantment with 300 sunny days a year can not manage to do so?

First Day of Spring

March 21st, 1. day of Spring in the City Different in the Land of Enchantment
After one more thunder, hail and snow storm when winter asserted itself for the last time for this season.

Santa Fe Scape


Another deposit of several inches of very dry snow that easily blew or melted off the surfaces the very next day, our 1. day of Spring. Yes, we have the potential of snow, ice and frost way in to the month of May. But at least from now on it will no longer stick to create havoc with traveling conditions.

Santa Fe Scape


Notice how the Pueblo style architecture melds in to the landscape and creates a rather pleasant meeting of nature with culture.

The Look of the Southwest