Sandia Mtns Seasonal Sundial

As the year progresses the sun moves from the north end of the mountains to the south. In winter, I'll have to go to the front to see the sunrise.

At 6:43 a.m. the sun was behind the tree to the left (north) of the telephone pole.

The yard is left to its own devices. There're desert tortoises that swing by for meals of catfood, mango, cantaloupe. The crows bring pecans from somewhere but like the elm in which to shell and dine. Finches nest in the eave above the store-room and in the crotch of the west cottonwood. In years past we've had an orbweaver. 

The background noise

is the swamp (evaporative) cooler.