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Field notes on water, land, weather and work across the American Southwest

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Sky and seasons

Drought, monsoon, dust, heat and cold in the high desert: how the seasons arrive, what they do to roads, roofs, gardens and herds, and how to read a forecast for this country.

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A thick adobe wall at the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, late afternoon sun raking across the mud plaster, a wooden canale projecting through the parapet above, shot from the sidewalk at an angle that shows the depth of a doorway reveal.
Plate SK-001 A thick adobe wall at the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, late afternoon sun raking across the mud plaster, a wooden canale projecting through the parapet above, shot from the sidewalk at an angle that shows the depth of a doorway reveal.

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  1. A thick adobe wall at the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, late afternoon sun raking across the mud plaster, a wooden canale projecting through the parapet above, shot from the sidewalk at an angle that shows the depth of a doorway reveal.
    SK-001

    Adobe Walls: Mass Against Sun and Frost

    Thick adobe walls hold heat and cold, and flat earthen roofs shed the monsoon. A look at how Santa Fe's old buildings answer sun, frost and rain.

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