It’s fall in northern New Mexico. This part of creation has decided that yellow will be the color of the season.
The yellow cottonwood tree greeting us for lunch at the Rancho de Chimayó as three long time friends gather for blue corn enchiladas and sopapillas with honey and conversation about times past and times future.
The yellow of trees and rainbows outside the window on the High Road drive from Chimayo to Taos.
The yellow of chimisa laughing with delight before it rests for the winter in muted colors.
The yellow of Trujillo Lane as we drive to our casita outside downtown Taos.
The yellow carpet that waits for us as we carry our groceries into the house.
The pine tree that invited some cottonwood tree leaves to sit a spell so she could wear some yellow, too.
The aspens that welcome my own sitting a spell in the back yard of the casita.
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Brother Curtis, in his devotion today for the Society of St. John the Evangelist entitled, Look, writing:
When you pray, how do you use your body? My default when I pray has been to close my eyes and be very still and silent. But my prayer has greatly enlarged as I open my senses and let the world that surrounds me be an icon.
Today I look, and my icon for prayer is God’s creation putting on yellow and praising the One from whom all blessings flow.
AMEN
House of Grace 
I absolutely love this post, words and photos! You and Br. Curtis encouraged me to sit a while with this. I know that yellow-orange is the natural color of the leaves of deciduous trees, with green as their color as they take up chlorophyll. It occurred to me that we humans use those colors in traffic lights – green for “GO” and yellow for “Slow Down and Prepare To STOP.” Hmmmmm…
I hope you enjoy your time in New Mexico as you continue to see God there through the icon of Creation.
Linda A
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