Albuquerque was hit with a healthy heavy overnight snow last night, so my Thanksgiving Day today began with a quiet early morning walk up my street to take in the winter scene, followed by a visit to the vast white field of the Catholic cemetery adjacent to my neighborhood.

This vivid little bouquet of plastic graveside flowers provided a nice contrast to the dull, dreary colors of the surrounding gray skies and snow.

It was a wonderfully insulated morning to be in the high desert, which crescendoed in some food preparation work for the afternoon Thanksgiving dinner with my sister and some family friends.