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Take that! No! You Take that! Mooarrrgh!
What was that? Don’t look now, but there’s a pesky paparazzo. I told you not to look!
Nutty Squirrel Nutkin with a nut in Comfort, TX.
Crescent moon this morning
Abstract owlets. Walter and Willa were out of the nest behind leaves and branches.
Nora owl, hooting tonight’s grocery list to Osric. Osric was not seen or heard tonight.
Sunset
Light reflections on the wall
Willa had a grumpy look because Walter was out of the nest tonight. I could not get a photo of him out of the nest because of branches and leaves blocking my focus. I walked down the bank through the leaves to see if I could get a clear shot of Walter out of the nest. I couldn’t, but all the noise I made scared him, and he belly-flopped back into the nest. The second and third photos show Walter peeking around the edge of the nest. Nora Owl was hooting a grocery list for Osric, but we did not hear any response from Osric. He was still out shopping.
I’m trying to wire a Frankinguitar Joel gave me to finish. It has a Les Paul Junior body, a PRS neck, and a weird whammy bar. I think the pickups might not work. I’ve tried two different wiring harnesses and got no sound from the pickups from either harness. I need to find where I stored my stash of pickups when I remodeled the studio.
Dawn
Puddle Ducks
Bottoms up!
I believe this is a Swainson’s Hawk. As shot on the left, cropped, and processed on the right.
Cropped but not processed on the left. Processed on the right.
Willa was laid back tonight. Walter kept his head down with the hawk overhead.
We did not hear or see anything of Nora and Osric tonight. They were either still hunting, or they decided to go out on a TGIF owl date.
Shaved Alpacas
Lady Banks
Lady Banks
Sunset
Wisteria
Tulips
Glenda
Loki: “Oh Lord, I beseech you to make the stupid Paparazzo put his camera down and clean the stinking cobwebs! Amen!”
Loki: “I’m waiting for the bolt of lightning!”
Spunk hammocking
Silver
Marble and Glenda are Cow Cats grazing on grass.
Sasha
Loki
Gwendolyn
Mama, in the morning
Osric Owl snoozing in the morning.
Walter and Willa
Nora Owl in the evening
Willa and Walter
Sunset
Captain Jack. Lyrics and Music by Billy Joel.Vocals by Timothy Price
Captain Jack from Billy Joel’s 1973 album, Piano Man, is my latest cover. I first heard this song around 1974 after I purchased Piano Man. I fell in love with it. It’s not at all biographical; however, I had friends who got messed up with drugs in the 70s. A few died of overdoses, and a few committed suicide. Seeing how drugs destroyed people’s lives, I never had a reason to experiment with them.
These spent poppies go well with Captain Jack.
Sandias @ Sunset
Osric Owl would not open his eyes for me at first. He finally woke with a hoot and gave me a “Stupid Paparazzo! And spell my name right!” look.
Nora Owl was looking sleepy also. That’s an indication the owlets might have hatched.
Beaver @ sunset
A tree with no name @ sunset
We had cloudy conditions for the total eclipse of the sun in Comfort, TX, today. But the clouds made for much more interesting and dramatic eclipse photos than what one gets under clear skies.
The Buildings on either side of me at totality.
The diamond ring captured on my iPhone
Mushroom Mike
Red sky at morning. High wind warning
That saying is true for today. We still have high winds, as I type.
The irrigation ditch is dry.
A funny thing happened on the way to the blogosphere. Brad and I were discussing birds wishing paparazzi get struck by lightning. I noticed that all the irrigation ditches have had no water in them in the past few days, even though the river is running higher. The birds’ wishes missed the paparazzi and zapped the irrigation pumps instead. I got a text from the Mayorodomo that the irrigation pumps were down due to being struck by lightning.
Doesn’t take long to get dry, cracked earth in a dry and windy environment.
Nora Owl was secure in her nest, but we did not see Orsic Owl this afternoon.
Rough water on the Rio Grande
Puddle ducks blown up against the bank by the high winds.
Wind making waves on the water.
T=Towers
Dual dragons driving their way through the wind.
Dusty pink at sunset
Dusk
Off Center & Not Even 