I was awakened by rain, and went outside to see the effect it was having in the pre-dawn light. The Sandias where misty through the drizzle and light cloud cover, which had turned the rain to snow, leaving the cracks and craggy spaces in the face of the mountains white.  I climbed down off the roof after photographing the Sandias to find a sparrow playing at my feet. The rain fell ever so lightly as it fluttered through the vinca, before hopping onto a chimenea, where it strutted around the edge turning from one side to the other, but keeping its face toward me, as it made a quarter arc around the cast iron lip. Then it flew into the bamboo, not 10 feet from me, where it struck various poses while I photographed it. I was using my 70-200 mm ƒ/2.0 lens since it was dawn and overcast. The exposure was 1/80 sec at ƒ/2.0, ISO 100. The lens was zoomed to 200 mm.