“The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow / Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below” (“Twas the Night Before Christmas” by Clement Clarke Moore) is not likely to be Ouray’s 2019 Christmas Eve. The Long Nights Full Moon brightened our snowy landscape on Dec. 12, so it will be only a bright early morning sliver early Christmas Day. Falling snow, however, might cover that little bit of moon, if current weather forecasts come true.

A few days later, however, on Saturday t...