Still here

Wierd weather ... rain for two nights straight and fog during the day. We hardly ever see fog here, but it was in layers everywhere yesterday. We ducked into Mesa Verde on our way to Cortez in the late afternoon, trying to see if we could get above it. No luck on that score, but there were some ghostly views of trees and rocks.

Sandy documented the presence of the twin turkeys at the Southwest Open School art show reception last night at the Cortez Cultural Center. Note the similarity twixt Tom Turkey and the one shown in his photograph? The turkey pic (the feathered one) was taken right outside our living room window. 

'Twas a nice show of artwork by students and staff (board members allowed in, too) at SWOS. More items than last year, and overall not as dragony and Gothic as last year. Lots of stuff selling, too (including my turkey pic). One student had about six works entered and she had sold all of them by last night (the show has another week to go). Students were also required to write something about their art, and some of those were very moving. There were also poetry readings and music, including a drum song by one of the Ute students. Life has been pretty hard for some of these kids, and art is one of their areas of expression that really seems to help them grow, express and gain confidence.

We agreed to swap shifts at Artisans this morning, so Sandy will open there while I head for the hills to see the start of the last stage of the San Juan Stage Race above Jackson Lake. That's higher and I hope it snowed up there, but I doubt it. It's been terrible weather for a sled dog race ... wet, slow snow and so warm that the dogs overheat.

Last year we were urged to hold the Mancos Mush at this time of year, to hitchhike on the Wyoming Stage Race. We looked at the precipitation records over the last 30 years or so and there just isn't a good record of snow at this time of year; most of our snow comes in February and March. tv