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In a nod to Nancy Herrington, when scenes like this are rare, makign a snowman requires creativity.
Here is the ABQ story.
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I love this Jane! How interesting!!! I like how the snowman gets larger and larger every year. Is that your backyard with snow this year? Looks like you could build a proper snowman. Dolly must be happy too.
Dolly absolutely loves snow! This is a photo mostly of the arroyo in the Monument behind our home. The photo is taken from the second floor deck. We get occasional snow like this but not very often and it usually melts before lunch time.
Wow! I didn’t know that tumbleweeds were so big.
Love the tumbleweed snowman. I enjoy learning about regional ways of expressing an idea or holiday or activity. Thanks for sharing with us. I can only imagine what a short life span a snowman made of snow would have in your area.
We are watching three inches of lake effect snow melt at this time. Don’t know if it’ll be around for Christmas or not.
Very creative! But the poor mother-in-law must knit longer and longer every year. 😀
I love your tumbleweed snowman – making something festive and creative and fun from something that is generally disliked. I seem to learn something new here everyday! Thanks for sharing, Jane!
I really like those tumbleweed snowmen and the hand knit scarf. Your view from your deck is lovely too. How nice to have a lot that backs onto nature. Your posts are always so interesting, thank you for sharing!
Fun! I love that your tumbleweed snowman spreads good cheer to not only your local community, but to everyone who learns about him. I watched the little video from AMAFCA too; Albuquerque sounds like a great place! Is flooding still an issue or is everything well under control now with all the expert planning and special engineering you have there?
Thanks! All of that engineering is a mostly successful effort to control the flooding that accompanies every monsoon season pretty much across the desert southwest. We get our 7 inches of annual rainfall mostly from local and isolated storms from late June through mid-September. Before the extent of the “built” environment, this was handled by natural arroyos like the one in my neighborhood. Now we also have a network of ditches, usually concrete channels, that direct the water away from homes and businesses and to the river. Unfortunately, people do not always heed the warning to stay out of the ditches. We can have a wall of water flowing through the city from a storm we could not even see.
That’s absolutely terrifying. I couldn’t imagine have a flash flood like you describe, a wall of water, without the sight of a storm. It’s understandable how people get caught by surprise then, but here’s another nod to the wisdom of local knowledge.