…unlike February, which felt like April but looked like winter, a week of March’s whiplash weather is reassuringly typical.
Typical too, of the season, is the migration of Brent’s sheep, walked 180 miles from Lovelock to the shearing sheds at Buffalo Meadows, then turned loose onto the desert south of us to lamb;
Being March, there were winds;
Brilliant mornings, volatile weather [snow flurries, snow squalls, winds again]…
And a noticeably full moon….followed by more sheep, and the migration of a trailer;
After lunch at the somewhat chill lunchpond we observed sandsnakes on the playa
so another other day…
Friday awake from 1:30 to six when thanks to Danielle at Guntert Steel L. has to be up and away to intercept the delivery originally scheduled for Monday, so we see the sun rise…
after which she heads off for California and I, closing up, make it to the gate an hour later and point myself zombie-like south and west as well;
more from there.
M
sheep? is that an annual thing, and don’t you get anyone making nice sheepish cheese in the vicinity?
The sheep have come through every year around mid- March, usually spaced about day apart. We saw two bands…led by Great Pyrenees, patrolled by Border Collies, followed by Chileans and preceded by traditional a sheepherder trailer towed slowly by an aging pickup truck.
I don’t know of anyone making cheese, however.
And somewhere in here and there Haooy Birthday!
Spell check HAPPY!
Sibyl, I prefer Haooy birthday. Has a nice festive ring to it….Bro, March 30th is coming up. Haooy Bday to you from me now in case I forget….xxxooo
Shouldn’t “Haooy ” be spelled with an “e”, as in “Haooey”
…or yahooey; thank for your good wishes.
Some of the most beautiful skies you have yet shown us, and the light and dark play on the mountains and playa is just amazing. And what the hey are sand snakes? creepy to think about!
and indeed Happy Celebration Day.
btw, the organ and sofa disappeared today….
Stephen
…and a happy Easter, too…sand snakes, according to my estimable friend Bill Fox, are “environmentally caused” and, in our observations, made up of rather granular particles.
Hope the sofa and organ [ha! not shown here] found a good home…
M
It looks cold and I am worried about the sheared sheepies.
Many really, really beautiful images, the light and air clarity are just wonderful…..and I will add to the Haooy birthday wishes!
J
oh, and Haooy Birthday to ya….