After attending a lecture on “The Holy Icons in Crusader Cyprus” at UNM this evening, I photographed members of the church’s chamber orchestra who were at bell choir practice — they were about a quarter of the orchestra, which just happened to be a quintet.
There never seems to be a shortage of interesting people hanging around downtown.
We drove home in a dust storm with a rainbow. The rainbow persisted most of the way home.
I got up at 3:00 am to turn in the water, but the there was no water to turn in. I went out this evening to turn in the water, and still no water. The empty ditch left me seeing red. The peach trees lose no time turning on their fall colors. The temperatures have been in the mid to high 30’s every morning this week. The roses like the cooler temps.
This is my 500th consecutive post since I moved to WordPress, and 664th consecutive post since I started Photo of the Day, Etc. in December 2010. When I add the 148 posts I wrote on CaringBridge, which started it all, I have posted 812 consecutive posts in a little over two years.
Stretch was “snaking” me on the stump this afternoon, and aliens disguised as a weather balloon were floating high above the moon — the low sun made it look like a jellyfish. I had to get out my 600 mm lens to get the photo. Louise Estes, one of the new roses we got in the spring, finally got over transplant shock and decided to bloom. The low sun shining on the cottonwood was a nice golden yellow on the first day of Fall. The spider’s web is on the irrigation gate.
On the last day of summer, plants were putting out seeds before the cold sets in. Although these seeds are from some pesky weed, they are quite photogenic.
When this panorama went came out all cockeyed, the result reminded me of Dali. Laurie thought it was more cubist looking, and I guess she has a point. If you lean more cubist, then I suppose it would be Picassoesque. Whichever “…esque” you choose, the result is interesting. I’m not sure why the program put the three images together all “Dali/Picasso” like, because the individual frames all look like they should line up perfectly — obviously something is out of whack.
Another cool, clear morning with dew on the roses and mist in the air. A crab spider is peeking out from a petal in the last photo.
Laurie thinks the photo of the stairs is a little boring, but I put so much work into stitching the six frames together and getting the perspective to look somewhat normal, that I just had to post the results. The space is very tight and the ceiling very high, so using a normal, 55 mm lens, I had to take six photos to get the all the stairwell in. Putting them all together was quite a challenge.
Osric dropped by this morning and put his face in my lens while I was photographing the dahlia.
Here we are five days before the first day of Autumn and the fall colors are preparing to set in with leaves anticipating the season, and the sun, enhanced by the thin cloud cover in the morning and dust in the air this afternoon, cast its enchanting, golden light over the Rio Grande Valley.
