Autumn JewelsGOOD FRIDAY
Pretty day here, warmer. The last week or so has been around 30 to 34 in the days, with a little of every kind of weather, including off and on snow flurries. If it weren't for little skiffs of snow, we would be getting no moisture. We sure would take some of that excess rain the Midwest is getting right now. Interesting and beautiful to watch the weather as it changes moment by moment. If you look one direction it is snowing and misty across the foothills. The opposite direction is sunny and mostly clear. It's almost unbelievable how in a matter of moments we will be in a whiteout snowstorm and then it is totally gone. The cloud shadows roll over and give constantly shifting light and shadow. We're also getting big towering thunderheads from time to time. Breeziness makes it cool and at the moment is moving a little snow. I didn't get a walk in before that started. Last night was so dazzlingly magnificent with a clear sky and a nearly full moon. The brightness of moonlight on the snow was awesome. By morning we had another inch of snow fallen.
Just now I'm watching about four jackrabbits just outside the yard chasing each other full speed over the drifts and across the hay sleds (which are still more or less buried in snowdrifts). They are delightful. Must be mating season or something. They have begun to get some of their darker summer color mingled in with the winter white. I tried to get a few pictures but couldn't get it zoomed in fast enough for a close one. They're not one bit worried about the dogs. The dogs just watch.... or not. I could use a dog that would chase them away, as they have eaten down a lot of the shrubs in the yard, including my willow bush that had grown to about four feet tall. Its nothing but stubble now.
Got a new book in the mail the other day - The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton. I still have to finish the book I'm into right now though before I start another one. Got the bills paid online and a few other business type things caught up.
1 comment:
What a gorgeous painting! I suppose it belongs to someone else! That is the most vivid painting I have seen of yours. WOW! Jewels indeed! This is how I see your personality.
Here the wind has finally gone down to a breeze. I'm afraid that will change later but will take what I can get. It is 55° here today. Sun and clouds.
I have been on the computer all morning trying to get through all the email. I think it is time to just stop, and get to my drawings.
Wishing you a Happy Easter.
Love, ~J~
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