Climate Change

The past week has taken us to many different corners of the United States and occasionally the changes in climate and terrain are a bit shocking for us and for our instruments.


Palm Springs has it all with gorgeous snow capped mountains and palm trees.

They are harnessing the power of their wind with an impressive field of wind turbines:














Driving north through California, we saw some other great landscapes.























And a lot of farmland:





























Minot, North Dakota was really cold (around 5 degrees plus a lot of wind chill) and snowy! This made driving a little hairy ;-0 We were told it can be as cold as 60 below zero with the wind chill. Minot State University had a very nice hall and we worked with some chamber music students in the morning before our concert.



















So you wake up (at 4am) to that weather, catch the 6am flight and by the end of the day, you're here:
Silver City, NM is about 6000 feet above sea level and we could feel the elevation and the dryness of the air immediately. It is beautiful country!