Five things I noticed today

1. About 10 minutes after getting up, I was surprised to see it was only 65 degrees F in the house, because I was not the least bit chilled.
2. Cold oatmeal is edible, if it's full of walnuts, currants, and dried blueberries.
3. A roadrunner, dead lizard in its beak, stopped to stare at me as I wrote in my journal on the south patio.
4. Venus hanging brilliant in the turquoise dusk above Mount Taylor.
   
5. Flames rising high into the night sky from the bosque north of Albuquerque.