I'm in Charge of Celebrations, Hardcover/Byrd Baylor

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Byrd Baylor's text captures and shares some of the special experiences in the Southwest desert country that have inaugurated her private celebrations: The Time of Falling Stars, in the middle of August, when ``every time a streak of light goes shooting through the darkness, I feel my heart shoot out of me``; Rainbow Celebration Day, marking the time she and a jackrabbit stood together watching a triple-rainbow over a canyon; and the real New Year's Day (January first is ``just another winter day``), the day spring begins. ``I celebrate with horned toads and ravens and lizards and quail...And, Friend, it's not a bad party.