Beautiful description, Emma, thank you.

The Canada geese spend part of the winter here. We've been hearing them a lot over the past few weeks. The other day whilst driving down a country road, with farms on either side, we glanced at a field of apparent stubble from last year's corn crop. Little hillocks dotted the entire expanse, lots of acreage. Suddenly, we noticed the humps were moving, they were Canada geese taking an afternoon nap in the high mountain desert air; some were fluffing their feathers, others hunkering down for a wee bit more rest.

Another day, we heard, first, then saw a huge flock overhead. I love that sound! Well, just like in Star Wars, one "rebel" group took off, just sort of rolled off in formation away from the others and went their own way. It was fun to watch. Looked as though they were headed for the Colorado River, while the others were going to a large reservoir. I could watch them and listen to them all the time.

We've also seen a woodpecker for the first time since moving here. Large, red-headed and loud; also most welcome.

kat