flew to Flagstaff from LAX yesterday on the most relaxed flight I've ever been on. About half full - maybe 50 people who probably knew almost everyone on the plane. The hostess up front and in her fifties would serve well as a stand up comic, holding her nose and pulling a face when demonstrating how to enter the one restroom. The safety routine ran something like, 'We reckon you've probably figured out the seatbelts by now but just in case.... and surprise, surprise, you cain't smoke'
The views of the snow sprinkled volcanic mountains and tracks, looking like crop circles in same, combined with ponderosa pines casting shadows of about their length was stunning. Tony was on the ground at the tiny airport holding a sign saying, 'SEAN'
Any cars that had overnighted in the car park had about 6-12 inches of snow on and around them. Tony said that this side was north and that it wasn't so bad out at his place. We drove to Flagstaff - very picturesquew and got a couple of things from the store - including the 'wrong' flour.
Tony's house is down a long lane with several other house, all on a couple or three acres - hard to tell as it's flat with hardly a fence. They share a new puppy with their daughter who lives, most of the time in an apartment in their house - They've moved downstairs. The frond door is on the upstairs level and downstairs, the back. Soon after arriving, I went out the back door for a smoke. Sue came out before I finished and told me that the stange bird that ran right in front of us was a roadrunner that'd been hanging around for a few weeks now.
This morning, I looked out the window and Tony and Sue were shoveling snow from the apron leading to their cars. About 2 foot of snow had fallen on top what was already on the ground and the snow continued all day long. As I write, there's a snowstorm brewing - expected to bring in another 3 ft tonight. It's snowing almost horizontally and hard to keep a cigarette lit in it.
Today then, we didn't go to town. There's plenty of food in and Sue's quite a cook. Tony and I exchanged songs for a while, drank a bit of whisky made in Colorado by a company his son is a quality checker for - it's a single malt. With Sue, this evening, we wrote a very silly song which is also quite good. They've headed to bed and I have my emerciency kit - flashlight, candle, kerosene lamp and jug of water - if the power outs, the water stops. They've actually never experienced anything quite like this in the twenty eight years they've lived here.
Forgot to mention that through the day, if you stood watching the trees outside for five or ten minutes, you were almost bound to see a waterfall like avalanche of snow slide down a tree trunk. So much beauty. I'm trying to change my flight out from Sat to Sun and connect then with my Nashville flight. Looking at the forcast, after tomorrow, it'll ease up and the airport should be normal by the weekend - the do snow better here. Today wasn't even cold or wet - just around zero.
I couple of photos and youtube links
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h9csDuwqns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvBfI4ngxac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRlAGG_sCI
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