Lovely afternoon in Santa Fe yesterday with a dear friend. We met up, went to lunch at great little hidden-away restaurant,
Vinaigrette. Santa Fe is having a super-lush spring this year and Nat wanted to show it to me. We drove around to her favorite places and I was so enthralled by the lavender and purple clouds of lilacs and wisteria-type hanging blossoms (don't know names), and white French lilacs galore, that I forgot to take pictures. But did manage a few other subjects in other places.
And on my own sweet dusty dirt road...apple blossoms...
I drove home from Santa Fe in gale force winds that swirled up dust thick enough to obliterate distant mountain landscapes. And that's saying a lot since landscape is everywhere! The wind came from the Pacific coast, sweeping toward us (according to the weather bureau) and bringing in cooler temps (40 degrees last night) and rain. Rain! blessed, wonderful, wet, soaking, driving rain. This morning we awaken to ragged clouds and vivid greens! Acequias are running again and water has arrived!
Spring rain:
a mouse is lapping
the Sumida River
Issa
