If you’ve never gone out and played with a porcupine at 4:00 in the morning, you haven’t lived. My not-so-well focusing camera gave me an interesting image of the stand-off between me and porky this morning. Porcupines are generally timid, but this one got tired of me following it around with the flashlight and began standing its ground. At least I had some fun with the porcupine since I didn’t get any irrigation water.

Puck stayed out until all hours last night. On one of my rounds calling for him, I took several exposures of the moon with Venus (I believe it’s Venus) and made an HDR out of them, then I just took a straight shot of the stars.

I photographed the peach blossoms in the low sun late this afternoon after I put down the gate to try irrigating again. The water is coming in, but it so dry it’s soaking into the ground so fast that it doesn’t seem to be moving.

My car is repairable, which I’m very happy about. The adjustor told me the other driver’s insurance should cover the camera. She said she has to replace cell phones all the time that have gone flying into dashboards and windshields.