I Love the Weather Here

I love the weather here. Recently we were blanketed in snow at lunch time. It was really coming down, the trees were all covered and it was looking like a winter wonderland. I was thinking of what I had on hand to make a hearty warm soup for dinner since I'd be working from home and not going anywhere in the snow. Well by 2:00 the sun was shining brightly and my white landscape quickly disappeared. Oh well, it was a great storm while it lasted, 2 hours. The attached photo is from one of the recent snows and really shows off the watermelon mountain.

~Jennise Phillips, Associate Broker

Chili Harvest

Autumn is the time of the Chile harvest you can smell the delicious aroma of chiles being roasted everywhere. There are red chile ristras hanging in the bright and oh so blue New Mexico sky. Green chili stew is being served in heaping, steaming bowls with the kick and flavor unique only to New Mexico. Red or Green?

~Mindy Prokos, Associate Broker, ABR

The Range, Bernalillo

Fall Harvest in the back of a pickup at The Range. (Pictures, L to Right)

Claudia and Robert Moraga with Dick and Lucy at The Range on a Friday Night.

Lorenzo makes the best and biggest drinks in town at The Range on a Friday night.

John Lewis band at the Range Friday Night.

Sacred Thornapple -- Rock Stacking

The sacred Thornapple is a beautiful, night bloomin flower that Georgia O'Keefe painted as the moon flower. It is very poisonous and very graceful with its large flower measuring 5-7 inches long. The sacred Thornapple blooms from September through October and opens in the evening.

Rock stacking was first introduced to me by a friend of mine in the Jemez Mountains, where his rock stacks are 5 feet tall. I haven't gotten one to get that tall yet, but I just learned I need to use wedges for support. You just start stacking them and move them around until they are secure. Mine have been up since August and will be growing taller soon.

~ Jennise Phillips, Associate Broker

My Feeder!

As fall arrives, the creatures that I feed seem to come around a little more often and are just a little more aggressive towards each other. This chipmunk (at least I think it’s the same one) and the cute little cottontail (at least I think IT’S the same one) come daily to the feeders in our backyard. As I was looking out the window, I ran for my camera, and this is the sequence I caught.

Just a couple more of the wonderful reasons that I love living in Placitas!
~Eva Marie Renninger, Transaction Coordinator

It's Balloon Fiesta!

Don’t Worry…Bee Happy!! It’s Balloon Fiesta!

~Mindy Prokos, ABR, Associate Broker

Life is GOOD!

Today is my husband's birthday. We're enjoying a gorgeous Fall day in Jemez at our cabin on Jemez Creek. We had a wonderful celebratory week-end with two of our daughters, our sons-in-law, and our adorable grandsons, aged 7 months and 10 months. I drove back Saturday and Sunday to hold open houses since this was balloon fiesta kick-off week-end, so I missed some of the fun, but it's alright, and today I have the entire day with my sweetheart of 34 years, and we'll have a delicious birthday dinner at The Range tonight. Life is GOOD!
~Sandy Poling, e-PRO, Associate Broker