Today dawned in brilliant shades of rose and coral that were gone nearly in the blink of an eye. Winter is here — single-digit temperatures and the trace of Saturday’s snow remaining on the ground testify to that — but it’s mostly bone-dry.
They’ve been making snow up at the Ski Valley for more than a week already; after all, opening day is tomorrow, and the new owners have to recover the monies they spent installing that abomination of a chair lift on Kachina Peak, and the weather seemingly isn’t inclined to help them. Unfortunately, it’s also not helping us much down here, either. In recent years, our snow pack has reportedly run somewhere between 60 and 65 percent, on average, of what our norm should be, and if current indicators hold, this year’s numbers will be far, far worse.
We need moisture. Snow, sleet, rain, whatever the form, we’ll take it and say our thanks. Despite the low nighttime temperatures, it’s supposed to climb to near 50 today, and in the days to come — too warm for snow. There’s nothing in the forecast, of course, not before next week at the earliest. But stranger things have happened, especially here. And so today, I’ve chosen to highlight one of Wings’s newest pieces, part of a coordinating set of three items, in hopes of calling the rain.
People have also been clamoring for more earrings, and these are one of two brand-new pairs. From their description in the Earrings Gallery here on the site:
Silver clouds gather themselves into little repoussé blossoms, then burst open, flowering into life-sustaining rain. Here, the rain itself materializes in two enormous raindrops, each in a free-form Skystone cabochon in classic robin’s-egg blue. A Morning Star guides each from the back. Earrings hang 1-3/8″ below wires (dimensions approximate). Reverse shown below.
Sterling silver; natural blue turquoise
$425 + shipping, handling, and insurance
Earrings coordinate with A Little Jar of Rain necklace and Warm Blue Rain earrings.
The stones are exactly the color of the winter Pueblo sky; the stars on the back like the one visible when I awake every morning, just before dawn. Hand-made down to the very wires from which they hang, they’re like wearing a little of the sky itself.
And maybe, just maybe, along with the sky, they’ll bring us a little rain.
~ Aji
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