¡Milagro!

Twilight

Jupiter under Resa’s Wolf Tree again

The Rio Grande at 5:30 a.m. this morning

Doppel loves the pink tarantula

The Rio Grande at 7:30 p.m. this evening. !Milgro! There’s water!

The Conservancy released water from Abiquie Reservoir. Why now? I have no idea. It’s past the growing season, and most of the cottonwoods in the bosque are suffering or bare, possibly dead. The release of water might be due with the agreements between Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico. But it’s too little, too late for the farmers and the trees.

Hunderdth Of An Inch

Starting off September with 100th of an inch of rain that left rings around the moon.

Pre-dawn color

Another old, broken cottonwood

Doppel doing his “Gentleman’s Kitty Quarterly” poses. He’s one cool cat!

Late afternoon

Do you see faces in the clouds?

Jake

Sunset

Daddy Owl at dusk

Tried to capture the bats buzzing me, but they flew too fast to show up in the dusk photo.

The Taskmaster

100% full August Sturgeon moon this morning.

Moon in dog

Cottonwood cemetery at twilight under the full moon

Lost soles, and a little more bared than feet?

Spunk has become my personal trainer and taskmaster.

This is how it’s done, pathetic, weakling, weeny paparazzo

Come on, you wicked, weeny, whimpy weightlifter! Add more weight! Do more reps! Do more sets! Push through it until it burns and you feel like you’re going to puke!

I have my eye on you, you lazy lackey. Even though you are lying on the bench press, there is no rest for whimpy, wicked, weeny paparazzi!

I’m going to make you press until you puke! You pectorally challenged, pathetic, catatonic paparazzo Puke!

You can’t get up. Do more reps. Do more sets! I’m going to hold you down until you press and puke.

Loki doing his kitty Tai chi streches.

Bromeliad that Laurie got to bloom again. Quite an accomplishment in our dry climate.

Catatonic kitty! The poor, pesky, pathetic excuse of a puke paparazzo wore out the taskmaster.

Jake and I went out for a short walk between light rain showers tonight.

Morning Moon

Pre-dawn

Morning moon

Doppel sleeping on Laurie at 5:00 a.m.

Rio Grande and Sandias at dawn

Another broken cottonwood

Jake

Doppel happy to be safe and secure inside.

A little color at sunset

Dusk

Baby Bullsnake at dusk

Daddy Owl

Spidery cloud at dusk

Venus

Doppel loves to snuggle

Doppel And The Lunar Eclipse

Doppel

Doppel decided he had had enough of the wild and asked to come inside at 3:00 a.m. this morning. We took him to the vet for an examination and testing this afternoon. For the most part, Doppel is healthy. No leukemia or FIV. However, he does have an infection of some kind. The vet called at 9:00 p.m. to tell us Doppel would be ready to be picked up in around 30 minutes. 

When we left at 9:15 p.m. to get Doppel, the moon was covered by clouds. When we got to the veterinary clinic at 9:40 p.m., the eclipsing moon was emerging from behind the clouds. When we left at 10:12 PM the moon was at peak eclipse. When we got home, the moon was covered by the clouds again.

The moon behind the clouds at 9:15 p.m.

Eclipse at 9:40 p.m.

Eclipse in stereo at 10:02 p.m.

The peak of the eclipse at 10:12 p.m. 

The moon was behind the clouds after we got back home with Doppel.

In A Rut Again

Early morning sky

Willy Nelson would be “On the road again!” Well! Here I am in a rut again.

Trail under tree or tree over trail?

Moon on the verge of fullness

I see critters in the clouds

Intermission

Dusk

Owl at dusk

Can you spot Venus?