New Mexico Jemez Mountains Highway 4

The early morning sun illuminates the Aspen blossoms making the trees shimmer with a brilliant silver light against the clear blue New Mexico Sky. The sight takes one’s breath away. For several weeks now, I have tried to capture this illusive beauty with my camera. Alas, I have failed.

Here is what my camera did find.

The temperatures Saturday evening dropped allowing the snow flakes that fell all day to start accumulating. We woke to about eight inches of snow and a chilly 24 degrees. Of course by this afternoon the new snow had melted, glad I captured these pictures this morning.

March 10, 2012

A wet snow covered the ground Friday and Saturday morning. In Ranchos de La Cueva the snow has turned to rain this morning at 8:00 a.m., and later back to a light continuously falling snow. Yesterday the roads were snow packed at the higher elevations above 7500 feet.

Friday the snow flocked the forest trees, each one visually stood out as an individual tree as far as the eye could see. Today the rain melted most of the snow from the branches. The trees merge into one forest with bright bunches of snow clinging to branches, creating spots of white contrasting against the merging evergreens. The brown branches seem to connect it all like veins and arteries.

The skies were blue and wearing a jacket was optional on Saturday, a perfect day for a festival. Booths of handcrafted items, chain saw carvers, food and music combined to excite the senses.