One must only look around to see the beauty that wintertime provide . Sometimes I think I have to search hard to see how beautiful it is in wintertime but then all I have to do is LOOK - really front - just open up my eyes and SEE .   At first glimpse it seems everything is drained but plants are only sleeping , wait for the spring winds to wake them up . The ground , she is resting , assemble her specialty , reincarnate herself for another season . wintertime supply us clock time to rest and meditate and I like that .

We are sustain a modest wintertime this year and have catch some good wet so far but not a fortune of snow . Today when the weather reached 50 ° F , I decided to walk my ground and take some pictures . I hope you bask them as much as I do .

Are they foreign spaceships ? Nah - their just helianthus promontory in wintertime .

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Aspen branches budding out against winter blue sky

Here is a new flushed birdhouse acquired at the ‘ Recycle Art Show ’ here in Santa Fe just wait for the birds to snuggle in springtime !

I liked the patterns of the shadow on the Baron Snow of Leicester .

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One of our bird friends , a Flicker breathe on a fence post - Isn’t he beautiful !

Aster efflorescence and snow in winter .

The Tea House is my little getaway where I like to cool down out in the summertime but it is lonely in the winter

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I do n’t like cactus but this prickly pear cactus is so beautiful !

This moss rock subsist out by the Tea House

go by the bee today and they were enjoy the 50 ° weather too - catch some Sunday rays ! This is scream beard when they ball up outside the opening night .

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This setaceous pear variety had great deal of pinks on it . I liked the color against the moss rock and snow

This is a closeup of some lichen on granite . Sometimes it is lustrous jaundiced like shown here .

Snow and some kind of really cool moss .

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I found these coyote dens on the side of a bluff but determine not to get closer . Check out the footprints around them . No admiration we get word them at night - they are so faithful ! Glad my goaties and chickens are well protect …

Here is one of the sunflower heads I leave in the garden last fall . The dame have perplex almost all of the seminal fluid out of it .

I get it on this old Chamisa root system .

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I like the he low-spirited - grey stalks and dry out peak of the Chamisa plant .

The yield of the Cholla cactus are beautiful . I use to detest Chollas because when you take the air by them , they seem to jump on you and have barb spines that are problematic to draw in out . But now I ’ve come to appreciate them as they render food for the bee with their beautiful magenta flowers in spring .

This is what the aboriginal Buffalo Gourd look like in the winter . The calabash starts out as a green calabash , then bend icteric and will mellow to a beautiful ochre color as it dries . Their skin is too thin for have anything out of them but I still like to pile up them on walk .

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