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More on the way

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This is what we saw on the way to see this church: last week’s snowfall and clouds bringing the next round piling up on the mountains.

Truchas, New Mexico
photographed 12.24.2015

The Thaw Before the Storm

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The snow was melting on Christmas afternoon and on our walk along Canyon Road, we picked our way between puddles and icy patches of snow, trying to keep on the dry pavement.

The weather was changing, though. In fact, we left a day earlier than planned to beat the storm, and we barely made it: new snow was already falling when we left.

Santa Fe, New Mexico
photographed 12.25.2015

The letting go

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We returned home from a Thanksgiving-weekend funeral through the remains of a winter storm that had slowed our travels two days earlier.

It is the season of letting go.

Dickens County, Texas
photographed 11.29.2015

Ice feathers, 2

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On Sunday morning, March 1, the city was covered with spiky bits of frost that was whiter than the snow. It was otherworldly, really. So much that this looks like it could be branches of coral, waving in warm, tropical waters. Or maybe I’m just dreaming…

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 3.1.2015

Ice feathers, 1

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These feathery pieces of ice were dotting the frozen surface of a lake, and had lined themselves up on a tree root, too.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 2.28.2015