Christmas in the morning, Easter in the afternoon

Crazy weather this week. It's fun to wake up with that snow day feeling, especially when we know we'll be working in our shirt sleeves at the end of the day.



We saw our neighbour in front of the post office. Howya doin' up there, Thor?!



Then we drove up to The Cemetary/Park to photograph the difference in climate from one part of the valley to the other.
This is the south end of the land mass that runs behind our property.
The older graves in the cemetary are covered with quartz or crushed colored glass. The effect is old fashioned and pretty, and doesn't need mowing or watering. Many tombstones appear homemade. More folks should hang out here recreationally and learn about their town!



The southwestern end peters out into sand, lots of sand. As you can see it gets much colder just west of this land mass. It's not the desert over there. That's what we love about this valley, the contrasts. Snow and sand. Water and land. Pine and sage. Cactus and peach.



We keep on truckin' with the T & G. It took four tries but we finally got this light in the entry centered correctly. Now we are quite deft with the jigsaw.



This weekend we'll work on the ceiling in the guest bedroom.



There's going to be a lot of anguish about stucco. Colour, texture, finish, nothing looks right, it's agonizing.