Done! Fieldwork finished, report drafted, exit conference done. What a great job, this land trust. What a pleasure. I’ll finish off the workpapers tomorrow and send it all back to the office. Then I’ll have time to do some more work on the job I did the week before in Carbondale, but didn’t get done. Beautiful as the San Luis Valley is, Judy and I left it to find some place warmer to spend the weekend. Tonight, we’re in Las Vegas, New Mexico, twenty degrees warmer than last night. Next job starts Monday in Santa Fe.
Villa grove
This. Is a very big valley.
Villa grove
Not a bad gig. The view from the office window. They make me sit right in front of that window to work (sort of).
Villa grove
Well, it took a few days to sort out, but there is clearly a winner of the battle in the sky. The blue sky won, the snowclouds have been vanquished. From that, you might expect the snowclouds were the losers, but not so. The temperature lost. The clouds left, and so did the temperature. The thermometer dropped to none last night. Beautiful during the day though. It got all the way up above freezing today.
Beach
The beach is sometimes just a long straight junction between the sea and the sand. Sometimes, on the same beach, it is much more. At low tide, humps, bumps, and shelves are revealed. Sometimes ponds form in these humps and bumps, then as the sea retreats, the ponds leak their contents after. Rivulets form, patterns evolve in the sand. It is a straight flat beach, with smaller worlds of wonder created and dissolved every day.