With around 19 inches of snow on the ground (Eldorado was, indeed, well and truly socked in), it's hardly surprising that our yard became a gathering place for birds today: finches, towhees, mockingbirds, titmouses (titmice?) - though no bluebirds (not that they eat these seeds ... and I did see them a day or so back, so expect them to be here nesting again next summer). The mountains emerged from time to time and then the clouds closed in again. I kept flourishing my iphone (view from front door before digging out the path; view after laboring hard; road before snow plough, road after snow plough) so that I could send off a running visual commentary to Alice in Highland Park - bearing out a point that emerged in one of our final classes this semester: how we so readily take photographs now in order to effect instant communication, not to store up memories.
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