Earth and Sun, Cities of Gold

Sunset light on our place (we're in the basement)

It's no wonder the Spanish thought they found Cibola, the City of Gold, when they first saw pueblo walls. Mix slanting sunlight with adobe walls, often mica-filled clay,  build against a knockout blue sky, and you get treasure, indeed.

To live in an earth home - walls three feet thick - warms the heart and comforts the soul, trite as that may sound. Our basement burrow, with windows level with the grasses, lets us watch scratching towhees, bunnies, and other passersby with a small life point of view.  This is beginning to sound Hobbity  - well, Bilbo was content, at the end.