Purple Haze

Sunset was lovely last night.


Looking up the Crystal River Valley


But the reflected light was probably the best of all...


Soft cotton candy sunset.....

Fire in the Sky

Yep, this is the type of Sunset John Denver wrote about- a classic Rocky Mountain "Fire in the Sky" sunset.

Squeaky balloon snow

It will come as no surprise that yesterday we got more snow. It's cold enough to sound like rubbing the outside of a balloon when you walk on it. It's light and dry and gives that silky swish swish sound under skis.


Just a little 1-2" dusting as you can see by Ginny's roll in the new stuff. It doesn't seem like anyone minds being outside in the stuff except me? I have shoes and I get cold feet- they have paws and don't seem to mind in the least. In fact they like eating snow more than drinking from the water bowl. I think Ginny got into this habit at the Puppy mill and she'll just push along rubbing the side of her face through the powder with her mouth open scooping up snow, licking snow, eating snow.


That doesn't account for the wind however, the drifts can be 3-4x as high. We get a lot of wind up here.


The sunset was crisp and beautiful as usual.

It's supposed to get warmer over the weekend- into the 30's. We'll see if that actually happens.

Winter sunset

Sometimes when the alpenglo hits the ridge you just feel like you're inside a Frederick Remington painting....

... or an N.C. Wyeth....

sunset sunrise

Yesterdays sunset.

Today's dawn.

.... and probably more snow in between the next.....

Our house guest

Sadie is visiting for a few days while her people are on a trip out of town. The crew started at dawn by waking up the elk. If you look up the road you can see the elk crossing. The elk were not thrilled about their early morning barking alarm clock. I'm pretty sure my neighbor on the other side of the road is even less thrilled. The elk like to eat the hay he puts out for his cattle.


Sadie and BB just play non stop.


Ginny tries to keep up best she can.

That's quite a bit of snowplow action she has there. We're lucky it's not a wet snow.


The whole crew got crazy.


All through the day.




Right up till sunset.

Why am I the only one who's exhausted after all of this? They should have slept like little doggie logs but I got my 5 am wake up licks as usual.

Sunset

Around 3:30 the shadows start getting long and clouds start to gather around Sopris.

By 5 pm the sun is behind the mountain and the moon is already up.