Hazy Day at the Dump

January 11, 2015 Timothy Price18 Comments

I took a load of green trash to the dump yesterday. The sky was clear, but there was a haze in the air that muted the light.

ADA for Motos

January 10, 2015 Timothy Price8 Comments

Chevrolet 3100

January 9, 2015 Timothy Price25 Comments

A nicely restored Chevrolet 3100 pickup truck.

Kitty Fishing

January 8, 2015 Timothy Price35 Comments

Spanish Chocolate

January 7, 2015 Timothy Price28 Comments

DSCF2858 — Laurie used the directions and proportions on the wrapper from a Tres Tazas bar to make her own recipe for what comes out to about 2 gallons of Spanish Chocolate.

We had our annual Spanish Chocolate party to celebrate Reyes (Three Kings / Epiphany) last night.

DSCF2859 — When the chocolate cools, it becomes more like chocolate pudding.

Tristæn cutting the cheese and preparing tapas

One of Tristæn’s arrangements of Spanish cured meats and queso Manchego.

DSCF2865 — When the party was over, the cured meats were gone, most of the chocolate was eaten, and half a plate of queso Manchego was left over.

DSCF2868 — Spunk wondering where all the people went

Set Up Us The Bomb

January 6, 2015February 25, 2019 Timothy Price30 Comments

This is a photo collage I put together with a photo of my dad working in a quonset hut on the Pacific island of Elugelab in the Enewetak atoll in October 1952 while working on the first hydrogen bomb detonated on Elugelab island on November 1, 1952. The foreground is a reflection of me in a nickel plated revolver with an apparition of the revolver surrounding my face. My dad also worked on Operation Teapot and Operation Redwing, both hydrogen bomb tests in Nevada, in 1955 and 1956. In both of those hydrogen bomb tests he was caught in the fallout from the explosions and was radioactive for quite some time after each of the blasts. I was born in 1958, and I have often wondered how much my cancer might have been influenced by my dad’s exposure to radiation from those tests.

The title of the post is a part of a quote from the 1991 arcade game “Zero Wing”. You can learn more about the game and later video from my post “Somebody Set Up Us The Bomb” from January 21, 2014.

The Shine

January 5, 2015 Timothy Price36 Comments

Laura and Holly having their shoes and boots shined at Model Shoe Shine Parlor on Gold, a couple of doors down from our office.

Cattails in Winter

January 4, 2015January 4, 2015 Timothy Price28 Comments

Cattails, ducks and blue herons on the Rio Grande.

Winter on the Rio Grande

January 3, 2015January 3, 2015 Timothy Price27 Comments

Views of the Rio Grande and bosque from standing on sandbars and the riverbed.

Seagulls on the Rio Grande

January 2, 2015 Timothy Price22 Comments

I went out on a walk in the bosque New Year’s morning. There was a light dusting of snow, and the sky was overcast. Several seagulls flew up and down the Rio Grande, often flying close enough for me to get clear shots with a 200 mm lens. Seagulls flying around in the high desert is a strange sight.