Dawn
The Humanities Building last Thursday
What’s left of the Humanities Building this Thursday
A bridge to nowhere
Nightfall
Humanities Down
Category: Architecture
Coming Down
Almost sunrise
A mini mass ascention. The Balloon Fiesta begins on Saturday.
🎶Humanities is coming down. 🎶Coming down. 🎶Coming down.
🎶Humanities is coming down!
🎶My U Bunny!
Sasha and Marble
Silver Mary Elephant: ” Caaaats! CaaAats! CAaAaAts!
Deconstructing Humanities
Another cloudless dawn
The Duck Pond was renovated at UNM, and now there are no ducks, turtles, or fish.
Tearing down the old Humanities Building to build a new Humanities Building.
They de-paved A Parking lot to put an Art School on that spot.
My, that’s a big cracker you have there, Belafonte.
Food delivery robots
A place to read like royalty.
The hippo in the sky
Flora Vieja
Sunrise
Fluffy poodle cloud
Flora Vieja
Spunk Art
Sunset
Another Dusk
Let it glow
Painting
Sunrise
I’ve been working on Tristan’s house preparing to put it on the market. I finished painting the living room today. I had my moments with the high ceiling.
Jake’s Big Adventure
While my car was in the shop for maintenance, Jake and I took a 3.8-mile (6.1 Km) walk down, up, and all around the Albuquerque flood diversion channel. I was surprised how much Jake liked running down and up the steep sides of the flood control channels. Whenever we came up to the top of a channel, Jake would hop onto the road and give whatever was in front of us a look of intense interest. It was like a game for Jake.
The route
Jake peed on a high-voltage transmission line pole. He thought it was electrifying.
Serious security: An electric fence behind the cyclone fence and barbed wire.
Needless to say, Jake was worn out after his big adventure.
Hotel Giles
Hotel Giles at night
At this time last week, we were staying at the Hotel Giles in Comfort, TX (https://www.hotelgiles.com/). We had driven 687 miles to Comfort to experience the total eclipse of the sun. Comfort, TX, was in the direct path of the eclipse, so we got around 4 minutes and 20 seconds of totality. Hotel Giles is a wonderful hotel that was perfect for viewing the eclipse with its large open space behind the hotel. The owners and staff were friendly and went out of their way to make our stay pleasant and memorable. They kept us informed on what was happening in Comfort, arranged for lunch, and made the guests dinner for a reasonable price on Monday since most restaurants were closed on Monday. A delicious home-cooked breakfast was included in the price of the room, and the coffee was excellent. If you are in the area, I highly recommend staying at the Hotel Giles.
The Hotel Giles was originally Hotal Faust, designed and built by architect Alfred Giles for Paul Ingenhuett in 1880. Alfred Giles was an English architect who moved to San Antonio, TX, in 1875 for health reasons and became a well-known and influential architect in San Antonio, southwestern Texas, and northern Mexico. He was also involved in ranching near Comfort. You can read more about Alfred Giles at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Giles_(architect).
The room we stayed in.
Interior stairway and the Parlor where guests gather. They have jam sessions on Friday nights.
This guy had been waiting for years for the eclipse.
The courtyard and gazebo at night.
The Cottage, a covered deck, and the Cabin.
The barn and a Tesla charging station out front.
Miss Ing Link
The Moon, the Pleiades, and Jupiter are across the top of the photo early this morning.
Sunflowers at Dawn
Venus at Dawn
Gino called me first thing this morning to see if I could go out and film Mr. Williams operating a large Link-Belt crane that few people in the city know how to operate at a construction site on Albuquerque’s west side. I drove over and took video and photographs for a couple of hours and compressed the video footage into a three-and-a-half-minute video of Mr. Williams hoisting trusses up onto the roof of the building under construction. The framing contractor is Nelson Framing. Jerry Nelson, the owner, and Gino have worked together on many projects. The building contractor is Bradbury Stamm Construction. The Superintendent of the construction site was kind enough to lend me a hard hat and vest to wear. Nelson’s staff working with Mr. Williams on the ground and on the roof came over and introduced themselves before they started hoisting trusses.
Miss Ing Link, the large Link-Belt Crane set up in the middle of the building project.
The 3 1/2-minute crane video with music
Il paparazzo delle costruzioni
The Big Crane
No Sandhill Cranes yet, just a big industrial crane. One of the five HVAC units on the roof of the office building went out a few weeks ago, and we had to replace it. Today was the day. Robert with ABQ Elite has been taking care of our HVAC for the past two years. He replaced the unit with the help of one of Gino’s cranes. They had to take off one of the iron grates that covers the HVAC units, lift out the old unit, and lift the new unit into place. Robert’s technicians, Gino and Mr. Willams, the crane operator, were a great team and had the roof grate off, the units replaced, and the roof grate back on in an hour’s time. Mr. Williams is a skilled crane operator, moving the equipment with great precision.
This video shows an hour’s work compressed into two minutes. There is music with the video.
Mr. Williams and Gino
The Big Crane
Off Center & Not Even 