Wednesday – after a brilliant blue morning, the skies clouded over. Later, I looked up from my computer just as the setting sun slipped through a clear patch at the edge of the horizon — the branches of trees around my casita flamed up like a million candles! It was eerie light, suggesting a second-coming or alien-invasion was descending.

Either way, I figured I should head outside to watch what arrived. Which, in the end, was merely dusk.