Night sky
Jake and I went on a walk at sunrise
I was photographing this Downy Woodpecker as he worked his way around the power pole, making all kinds of noise. He flew as soon as he saw me.
From our walk at Sunset
Walk @ Sunrise
Category: Corrales
Smoke From A Distant Fire
The Sandias and the City of Albuquerque covered by smoke from the Trout Fire in the southwesten part of the state near Silver City this morning.
It was a hot one. The high today was supposed to be 102º F (38.9º C), but on the street it was 117º F (47.2º C) according to my car’s thermometer that records the outside temperature.
I found new Spunk Art when I got home this afternoon.
Jake and I went out for a walk at golden hour. The afternoon breezes had cleared out the smoke that covered the Sandias this morning.
Cotton blowing in the breeze at golden hour.
The Lone Pato Waddles Again
Sunset
The second evening I’ve seen this female mallard without her male companion.
The wind started blowing as Jake and I came back from our walk. The cotton was streaming from Resa’s tree.
Clouds Blush
Jake’s Dream
I answered a phone call a few weeks ago:
Me: “¡Dígame!”
Caller: “This is the Corrales Fire Chief. This is not an Emergency! Do you have a few minutes to talk?”
Me: “Yes!”
CFC: “Someone named Jake requested we install a fire hydrant on your road. Do you know who Jake is?”
Me: “Jake’s my dog!”
CFC: “Oh! Ok! That makes sense. I guess.”
Me: “Jake loves the fire hydrant on the west side of the drainage ditch.”
CFC: “[A slight chuckle] Your neighbors on Dixon Road gave us right-of-way across the eastern edge of their property for us to install a fire hydrant on the north side of your road. The hydrant will be half way between your house and the house at the top of the road. Can we have permission to face it toward your road and have access to it from your road?”
Me: “Of course. Jake will be a happy dog to have a fire hydrant much closer to our house!”
CFC: “I suppose he will. Thank you! Bye!”
Me: “¡Adiós!”
Jake’s new fire hydrant waiting for it’s first peemail message.
New Cat Stairs
Lonely Dove at sunrise
I replaced the cat stairs on the wall for the cats to get to the hammocks with two sets of prefab kitty stairs. The previous stairs I built from scrap would was made of mohagany. Belafante started to perch on the kitty stairs and chew on the wood. Mohagany in poisonous, so I repaced the stairs with a nno-toxic white wood. It was much less expensive to buy prefab kitty stairs than build new stairs from scratch.
America Rose
Loki trying out the new kitty stairs. Click on a photo to enlarge and view a slideshow.
Afternoon thunderheads
Spunk checking out the new stairs
Another thunderhead over Resa’s Tree.
Spunk testing the new kitty stairs
Sunset
Reflections On The Moon
Thunderheads that gave us a short downpour this afternoon.
Moon reflecting in the irrigation ditch.
Sunset
Three Amigos. Tres castrores en el río.
Wired
Lonesome dove on a wire at sunrise
Betty Boop
Spunk Art Wired
Ladybug out early
Gwendolyn
Grasshopper on a wired leaf
Sasha
Happy Jake. He was wired over licking the bowls.
Happy cloud smiling at Resa’s tree
The Big Dipper
More Rain
Dwan
We have received 0.44 inches of rain over the past three days. That’s as much rain as we received in the past three months.
A cheeky cheese standoff
Sandias through the rain this afternoon.
Flora Vieja
Sunrise
Fluffy poodle cloud
Flora Vieja
Spunk Art
Sunset
Off Center & Not Even 