Dawn
Just shy of sunrise
Silver shaking
Sil (not our cat)
I’m taking care of Sil and Pattern (who never comes out for me) for friends while they are out of town.
Doppel
Doppel liked having me to sit with him while he was grooming
Sunset
Duck paddling around in the golden light of dawn
A fat coyote at dawn
Glenda
Wild contrail sunset
Sunset from east, south to west
Silver
Glenda
Rio Samba
Silver
Loki
Loki hung up on hangers
A penny for your thoughts, Spunk.
Sunset
Dawn
Killdeer
Sunrise
Spunk’s tail charging
Glends and Spunk
Cat 6
Home late
Dawn
Can you find the owlette?
Sunrise
Gwendolyn
Glenda
Sliver sleeping
Cat 5
Spunk
Loki
Mystery Kitty
The mystery kitty started hanging around last summer, fighting with our cats through the wire in the catio. You can read more about that at https://wp.me/p1yQyy-cr8. He has always run away from us whenever he sees us, but Laurie noticed he’d been looking thin, so she started leaving food and water out for him. He was meowing at the Sally port door this afternoon, and our cats were not fighting with him through the wire. I walked out the door and he ran. I sat down on the step and called him. He slowly came back, sniffed me, got up on the step next to me, and let me pet him for a few seconds before he ran off again. I went back inside and in a few minutes he was meowing at the door again. I took a can of cat food out and put it in his food bowl, and he really appreciated the canned food. I sat on the step with him eating at my feet and took a few photos. He definitely looks rougher than he did when we first started seeing him last summer.
The humming bird that was buzzing aroung us while the mystery kitty was eating.
If you didn’t find the owlet in the long shot, here’s a closer view.
Sunset
Albuquerque Airport: Passengers walk out of the secure area on their way to the baggage claim.
Crescent moon at midnight after being in airports and on airplanes for 20 hours.
Sunrise
Yucca at sunrise
Sasha helping unpack
Spunk helping unpack
Spunk taking a nap with me this afternoon
“You’re supposed to be napping, not snapping!”
Blooming
Sunset
Loki
Rainy Dawn
Craig flying between the mustard fields before going into warp speed.
Atlas: “I’m told you’re leaving on a jet plane and won’t be coming back again?”
I’ll come back next year, Altas!
Buzzing for breakfast
Max Headroom
No explanation
“We’ll miss you, pesky Paparazzo!”
I’ll miss you too, Freyja and Atlas!
Sunset
Dawn
Sunrise
Neighbor chickens
Atlas Kitty enjoying the morning sun
The trees are greening
Built in 1894
Easy Rider in Bruchmühlbach
Lavender Gist
Sunset
Flowers on Easter morning
Meow Meow meowed at the door last night. I let him in, and he was wet from the rain. He stayed around for a while comforting me. Then when he was dry, he asked to go back outside.
Sunrise
Laurie called me early this morning because Marble Kitty was having problems breathing. She took her to an emergency vet, and Marble had fluid pressing on her lungs. The vet removed the fluid and Marble had a collpsed lung with a mass in it. A long story short, she didn’t make it. Sadly we lost one of the sweetest kitties.
Between back and forth with Laurie on Marble’s condition, Marina, Socrotis and I went out to buy bread, and then in the afternoon we went to dinner in a restaurant by the sea.
It’s been raining on and off all day, and the area has received “buckets of rain” over the past few months, so the vegetation is green and wildflowers are blooming everywhere.
Dinner
View from the table
Local black cat
Long Legged Buzzard
Assissin Bug
Local frogs
We heard a chirping sound that sounded like a bird, but it was coming from under a concrete slab, and Merlin Bird ID could not identify what it was. Marina looked under the concrete but could see anything. I took photos under the concrete, and after I processed the photo, I found the frog on the right-hand photo with its head sticking up out of the water.
Houses with a great view
Handicap access to the water
This sweet dog came out to greet us
Sunset to the east
Cool lights over the dining room table in the Airbnb I’m staying in down the road from Marina and Socrotis.
Off Center & Not Even 