The Rio Grande is down about four feet, exposing a carved-up beach.
A black and white bovine at sunset.
While I was checking the status of irrigation water under the peach tree, this hummingbird was en garde, buzzing me, hoovering in my face, and perching less than an arm’s length away to keep a close eye on me. I get this strange feeling there might be a nest in the peach tree.
Glenda (foreground), and Gwendolyn (background) are in the catio looking for birthday birds. They were born on July 4, 2020.
Gwendolyn: “Three Years! That makes me like 28 years old!”
Gwendolyn (looking at the camera) and Glenda napping together on the deck.
Glenda reflecting
Spunk wrote a Heavy Metal parody called Death To All But Kitties for Glenda and Gwendolyn for their 3rd birthday. The lyrics are brutal, so dog lovers might not take well to Spunk’s parody. All of the cats dislike dogs, but Gwendolyn despises dogs more than anything. The first time Tristan brought Jake to the house, Gwendoly injured her spine trying to escape the monster dog that invaded her space. Jake only be’d a dog, but he really scared Gwendolyn. She lost the use of her legs for a week from her spinal injury. We were really worried about her. When she has gotten careless jumping on things or playing rough with the other kitties, she has reinjured her spine and again lost mobility in her hind legs. She still high-tails it when Tristan brings the dogs over, but she hasn’t injured herself in over a year.
Death To All But Kitties
Lyrics by Spunk Kitty
Music by Steel Panther
All right!
Meow!
Down with stupid dogs, I’m spraying on the wall
They look like shaggy retards licking on their balls
Pluto is a fool, and so is Scooby doo
Sniffing each other’s butts and rolling in their poo
They lick their butts, and people’s faces with their grody tongues
Everybody shout, “Kitties rule! Cats are fun!”
Death to all but kitties
Death to all but kitties
Death to all but kitties
Death to all Dalmatians. Did you get their gist?
They’re whizzing on the fires, getting burnt to a crisp
Wearing black polka dots, really stupid critters
Eating Tootsie Rolls that we bury in our litter
Where are the Stray Cats? And Sylvester, too?
We strut around and act weird; that’s what kitties do
Death to all but kitties
Death to all but kitties
Death to all but kitties
Kill those dumb old doggies who have a pedigree
They can hump on your leg all night; you won’t disagree
Kill sassy Lassie leaving Timmy in the well
Kill Old Yeller too. Been done? Oh, what the hell?
Screw Lady and the Tramp, death to Red Dog Blue
They can do the doggie shag. Wouldn’t that be cool?
Frankenweenie is a drag, Snoopy, don’t come home
Let ’em fight it out in a thunder dome
Death to all but kitties
Death to all but kitties
Death to all but kitties
A Buck Moon in blue
Hanging in between the lines
Not for very long
There are critters in them, there clouds!
Spunk: “There are some bloody scary-looking critters in them, there clouds!”
Sunset
Sunrise
Sunrise looking south. The clouds were mimicking Marina’s Incognito Pear Tree.
Question Mark Butterfly (Polygonia interrogations).
It looks leafy
4:30 this morning, looking east. The Pleiades is on the left. Jupiter is in the center.
4:30 this morning, looking south. Saturn is at the top center.
4:30 this morning, looking north. Lots of stars.
4:30 this morning, looking west.
4:30 this morning, looking straight up.
Sunset
Sunset
Synchronized update
Life is reduced to charging devices
Damned to eternal update hell
Bitcoin indulgences ring in virtual coffers
But no souls spring from the depths of our self-made electronic purgatory
Enslaved by our devices
Can we ever learn to breathe again?
Half moon at sunset
Sunset
You all’s souls may be trapped in a self-made cyber purgatory, but I’m just beeing. Just sayin’!
Moon strays farther from Mars and Venus.
Venus, Mars, stars, and the Moon aligned last night from lower right to upper left.
The key to the night sky last night from LiveSky.com.
How many flies do flycatchers catch when flycatchers are catching flies? That is a good 17-syllable question. However, I couldn’t get a Timku out of the question as it is phrased. I made a couple of gifs and wrote and recorded a silly song to go with the gifs, and made a music video instead of a Timku.
This lizard ran up ahead of me and stopped in a sliver of shade and looked at me. When it saw its reflection in the Bazooka, it came back toward me to challenge the lizard in the lens. I had to back up because it got too close for me to focus. It did push-ups for the challenge.
Blue Grosbeak
Bunny in the bosque
New Mexico whiptail lizard
Sparrows
Bullfrog hanging in the current
Turtle
Turkey Vulture
Sunrise
Dragonfly
Oriental Lily
Peace
Ladybug on a daisy.
Native Bee on a daisy.
Green polka dot beetle on a daisy.
Moon, Mars, and Venus are at the lower right.
Sunrise as seen from the same as it ever was scene.
Tristan’s funky chickens at the Solstice party. Chickens may be fowl, but they know how to party.
Drama in the southern sky.
Orange in the western sky.
Venus and the moon riding a black dragon.
Spunk: “Bah, Solstice humbug! The stinking day lasts too stinking long on stinking Solstice!”
Venus and the sliver moon at dust again.
Night sky looking east.
Sol the orange and black striped beetle: “I love Solstice and having a long day to lounge in the daisies!”
Night sky looking west.
Night sky looking north.
Night Sky Looking south.
Off Center & Not Even 