The View from Your Window

Kevin has gotten me hooked on the View from Your Window contest hosted by The Atlantic blogger Andrew Sullivan every week. This week's contest can be found here.

Every Saturday he posts a new picture and people have until Tuesday to guess. He reveals the answer at noon. I have never sent in an answer, but I guess that I should as I think I may have won this one. I knew it was Thailand immediately although I was instantly reminded of the fact that we left coastal Thailand just days before the devastating earthquake and tsunami in that region in 2004. Sobering thoughts to be sure.

Being obsessed with sunsets, as any good New Mexican is, I was inspired this evening to share this view from my window. Looking west, out of our kitchen window, you can see our lovely, snow covered backyard, storage shed, and an incredible sunset beyond. I am such a sucker for a great sunset.

Lest you think we are living in a dark and frozen wasteland though, know that it has been sunny and absolutely gorgeous here for the past two weeks. The sun rose this morning at 8:19 am and set this evening at 8:01 pm. We are rapidly headed to the equinox and our full twelve hours of daylight. I guess it still is a bit chilly, though, depending on whose standards you are going by. It was a balmy 11 degrees this morning as I went to work (morning temperatures recently have been in the low single digits) and 33 degrees (Realfeel 35 !!) on my way home. Heatwave!! Frankly, I think we would all be pretty excited to get some more snow soon so we can ski on something other than ice. As much as we might want to think so, winter is not over quite yet...

Finally, just so you know, John Baker just won the Iditarod this morning in record time. And yes, up here, that is a really big deal.