Las Mañanitas

News from the Pleasure Palace on Mesa Sea Road

Friday, January 23, 2009

Winter Scenes

On the grounds of the Overland Ranch near our favorite restaurant, Sushi Hattori:

In Ranchos de Taos:




Wednesday, January 07, 2009

I Can't Believe We Shoveled the Whole Thing

After a fourteen-inch snowfall on January 4, Steve and I shared our shovel, and the result (four hours later) looked like this:

The mesa hasn't seen this much snow since the early eighties. Here's Las Mañanitas after the storm:


We could barely see the tops of the surrounding sage:

Luckily there were no guests in Maggie's casita the night of the storm: