It got really warm for a week and it rained (very wonderful in New Mexico). The wet desert smells are incomparable - chaparral (the Rain Bush), Mesquite and sage. If you have a sprig of chaparral in your car, it will always smell like rain. Then it got cold again this week. But the farmers are irrigating the huge alfalfa fields around me. The water comes from deep wells. In the morning yesterday just as the glow of dawn crept up in the east, you could see great, rolling puffs of steam across the fields! The water from inside the Earth was much warmer than the air outside. It was lovely and weird. Last night the moon was huge and the water in the alfalfa glistened like silver. This is such a cool place to live. The horses experience this and way more each day and each night. They have that relationship with Nature that we wish for.
