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.

White Lace Dawn, Black Lace Dusk

January 23, 2015 Timothy Price40 Comments

We had several inches of snow in the morning, but the snow and clouds were almost all gone by sunset.

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.

Drags On The Rio Grande

January 20, 2015 Timothy Price28 Comments

After fording the shallows of the west fork of the Rio Grande to one of the large sandbars in the middle of the river, I was faced with a forest of salt cedar interspersed with thorny Russian Olive Trees as I bushwhacked my way across the sandbar to see what was happening along the wider, deeper water running on the east side of the sandbar. Figuring they were hidden from the shutters and eyes of humans they commonly see along the accessible areas to the river, the Sandhill Cranes were playing games, drag racing to be more specific, very much like what you might see in an old Far Side comic.

As I emerged from the orange-yellow briar patch, a couple of Sandhill Cranes took off in a race down the river, while another pair quivered behind the barbed wire starting line ready to start their drag race down the river. I was able to catch the second pair on film and narrate the action in each of the photos below.

Spiky thorns on Russian Olive branches that grabbed and tore at my clothes as a made my way across the overgrown sandbar.

Quick Silver in front and Light Speed in back at the barbed wire starting line.

They are off with Quick Silver getting the jump and Light Speed.

IMG_3406-2 — Quick Silver opens a up a gap

Light Speed kicks it in the turbo and goes into warp speed

Light Speed catches Quick Silver and they are neck and neck

Light Speed surges past Quick Silver to take the lead

The race ended when they caught the two cranes that started their race as I came out of the thicket.

Sunset in Purple

January 19, 2015 Timothy Price41 Comments

Purple clouds at dusk looking northeast.

I walked a mile and a half south of the house and got the sunset looking northeast, east and south while standing in the middle of the Rio Grande. Besides the normal shades of yellows, pinks and blues, the interesting shaped clouds to the north turned purple.

SandiasSunset1-18-15 — Pink Sandias, looking east

SunsetSouth1-18-15 — Sunset looking directly south

Crows flying into the layers of the sunset looking directly south

Cranes On Blue

ImageJanuary 18, 2015January 25, 2020 Timothy Price42 Comments

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.