The Week: March 30th — April 5th

April 5, 2015 Timothy Price11 Comments

Photo of the Day, Etc for the week of March 23rd — 29th includes:

March 30th: Spring flowers and wild boar macaroni — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/flowers-food

March 31st: Spunk in the window — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/screened

April 1st: Construction — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/construction-progress

April 2nd: Spunk gets his kitty prints — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/kitty-prints

April 3rd: Moonrise and Lola — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/moonrise-lola-and-the-neon-tulip

April 4th: A snaky lick and wild turkey — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/snake-tulips-wild-turkey

April 5th: Flower girl — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/i-love-the-flower-girl

The Week: March 16th — 22nd

March 22, 2015March 22, 2015 Timothy Price8 Comments

This week’s Photo of the Day, Etc includes:

March 16th: A ragged butterfly — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/the-butterflies-and-the-bee

March 17th: An El Camino on El Camino Real — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/el-camino-on-el-camino-real

March 18th: Different views of the Sandias — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/a-different-perspective

March 19th: A lonely church — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/lonely-church

March 20th: A snuggly kitten — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/snuggle-attack

March 21st: Horsing around — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/horse-play

March 22nd: Arco Iris — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/rainbow

More Progress

January 31, 2015 Timothy Price10 Comments

GrocerySite1-26-15 — Site of the downtown grocery store complex on Monday, January 26, 2015

DSCF3155 — Faye and Jay climbed to the 16th floor of the New Mexico Bank & Trust Building in 2:46:30 on Wednesday, January 28, 2015. They were a minute faster than Bruce and me.

DSCF3161 — Looked like they had dug down to the water table on Wednesday, January 28, 2015.

DSCF3165 — Bruce and I set personal records climbing the 16 floors on Thursday, January 29, 2015 in 3:27:50. Thursday was our 10th climb up the stairs at the New Mexico Bank & Trust Building.

Friday, January 30, 2015 was cold and wet with a mix of rain and snow falling most of the day. The front end loaders, grader, tractor and back hoe got the day off on Friday.

GrocerySite1-30-15 — Panorama of Downtown Albuquerque on a gray, wet Friday, January 30, 2015. The New Mexico Bank & Trust Building is in the center of the photo.

Red Hot Wheels

January 29, 2015 Timothy Price19 Comments

Red hot wheels in Downtown Albuquerque — red Porsche 911 Carrera and red Audi R8.

Old Adobe

January 27, 2015January 27, 2015 Timothy Price20 Comments

This is one of the old adobes on Corrales Road that I’ve been documenting for the past couple of years. This abandoned adobe house might be considered historic, so the owner may not be able to tear it down, and may be letting it deteriorate to the point it will fall down on it’s own, but that’s all speculation on my part. The north wall caved in a couple of years ago — you can see the north side of this house on my blog post from August 9, 2013 at http://photoofthedayetc.com/2013/08/09/old-adobes/.

Progress

January 24, 2015 Timothy Price18 Comments

Excavation for the Imperial Building (with grocery store) Monday, 19 January 2015. In the middle right, next to the fence, there is an old grease trap and other interesting things they’ve been digging up.

I’m taking weekly photos of the progress on the Imperial Building construction project going on behind our office. Today’s photos are from Monday, January 19th, and Friday, January 23rd. The middle photo shows our daily marking off of climbing the stairs in the New Mexico Bank & Trust Building (on the right in the first and last photos.

DSCF3004a — Marking off stair climbs. Six days and counting.

Excavation for the Imperial Building (with grocery store) Friday, 23 January 2015. In the lower left by the sunbeam, there is another old storage tank unearthed.

Morning Clouds, Evening Snow

January 22, 2015 Timothy Price18 Comments

The clouds were spilling over the Sandias this morning and it was showing when I walked out go the office in the evening.

Cat Fu Fighting

January 21, 2015January 21, 2015 Timothy Price37 Comments

Spunk and Najar sparring in the catio.

Climb Sixteen Floors, What Do You Get?

January 17, 2015January 17, 2015 Timothy Price36 Comments

Another day older and 320 steps
Saint Peter ain’t a callin’ cuz he knows I can’t go
My legs are like jelly and terribly sore

If you are not familiar with Tennessee Ernie Ford’s hit song “Sixteen Tons” a version from 1956 can be seen at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joo90ZWrUkU

A modern version by Jeff Beck and ZZ Top with the 1956 film above playing in the background can be seen at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2aqvKY6zLc

Laurie’s parents gave us Fitbits® for Christmas. These little devices track your steps, how many floors you climb, calories burned, active minutes, total miles, and log your sleep among other things. Laurie and I have gone a little nuts with daily goals and challenging each other. She’s been climbing the stairs in the buildings at UNM between classes to get stair climbing in, leaving me in the dust on the floors. So today, I talked Bruski into walking over to the New Mexico Bank building and climbing the stairs with me. There are sixteen floors, but my Fitbit logged 18 floors because there are two flights of stairs from the lobby to the first floor. We got in 6 active minutes from the lobby to the 16th floor, according to the Fitbit, and it about did me in. Brusk said he could feel it in his legs. Climbing sixteen floors also gave us a nice view to the west above downtown Albuquerque.

The Eve Of Construction: A Groundbreaking Experience

January 14, 2015 Timothy Price16 Comments

Over two years ago they said “Give up your parking spaces, a grocery store is at hand!” And the city took out the bumpers, fenced the lot, and the lot sat empty. And yet no grocery store. A year went by, and they used it for a staging area to finish the multi-colored apartments across the street. And yet no grocery store. With the apartments finished, the fences came down, “No Parking” signs went up, and yet no grocery store. People started parking on the periphery and then in the still empty lot. And yet no grocery store. The “No Parking” signs disappeared, more parked cars, movie studios set up staging one day and disappear the next. Another year gone by, and yet no grocery store. Then came Monday’s announcement of the ground breaking for the new grocery store on Tuesday. Yesterday was gloomy and cold as the people gathered and the politicians and business representatives gave their speeches. Shovels ready, cameras rolling, the grocery store is at hand. Hooray! Let the destruction begin.