It has been a soft, quiet, cloudy, rainy day out here on the Mesa south of Durango, Colorado where I live. It’s been unusually warm for this time of year and our two feet of snow is gently melting away. But it’s snowing up in the high country, around 100 inches so far. Hopefully we’ll get another hundred before spring. We need it to fill our suffering resevoirs that were not replenished last year because of the terribly dry winter. Ah, such is our life in southwest Colorado.

Russell and Hanna did not make it down here on their road trip. Maybe the next time. That’s what I like about writing, your characters can do anything. You just have to listen closely to what they are telling you. It’s their story after all. Stay tuned . . .