Category: Corrales
Wild Summer Skies
Looking southeast from South Bend
When I was out at Beaver Point just before sunset last night, I could see the clouds were really wild looking to the southeast, and I would get much better photos from the south bend about a quarter-mile downriver. I hightailed it south and along the way heard the owlets peeping in the cottonwoods between 4th of July Point and South Bend, but I could not see them. I got down to South Bend in time for some spectacularly wild clouds with the half-moon hanging behind them. On my way backed I looked for the owlets, but could not find them in the trees. There was still a lot of color in the clouds when I got to the Tangle Heart Tree, but the color had pretty much subsided to the east when I got to Shehanne’s tree on my way back home.
Looking east over the Rio Grande a the Sandias from South Bend.
A half-moon peaking through the Tangle-Heart Tree.
The last of the color looking north from the Tangle Heart Tree. Can you see a face in the clouds?
Shehanne’s Tree in front of a fading eastern sky.
Extranjera
Coyote, Comet, Iron Cross
A coyote sauntering along the levee looks back to check out the paparazzo.
The Neowise comet from 7/20. That was the only clear sky we had last week.
Hummer holding an iron cross over the Rio Grande.
Oh! We’ve been seeing daddy owl, but not mama owl or the owlets.
Cottonwoods Among The Jetties
The Jetties, also called Jetti Jacks, where placed along the river in the 1930s where the bosque has since grown up. The jettise are one of many flood control projects that have been installed along the Rio Grande. When I was young, there were rows of jettis the ran from the Levee to the river about every 1000 feet or so. Most of the jetties have been removed over the past 30 years, but there are some that have been left tangled up in cottonwoods that grew up along the line of jetties.
Color Before The Storm
From the levee looking west.
Resa’s Tree
Red rain approaching.
Holly’s Tangle Heart Tree.
Clouds formed the same shape as the canopy of Resa’s Tree.
Thunderhead Shark
Thunderheads are building up, rolling in and raining on us almost every evening.
Shark cloud
Dawn & Did
Dawn this morning.
Urban Katydid hanging on the outside of the glass between the 5th and 6th levels of the parking structure enjoying the view of downtown Albuquerque.
¡Hace Calor!
The forecast for Corrales was for 105º F (40.6º C). Our thermometer, which was in the shade at 16:18, showed 103.9º F (39.95ºF). The weather app on my phone showed 106º F (41.1º C) at 16:24. The air was dry at 17% humidity outside. It was hot and dry enough that the water feed into our evaporative air-conditioner could not keep up with the evaporation rate. The water level would fall below the pump’s inlet, so it could not pump water up to the pads until the water filled the base back up enough for the pump to suck up water and send it to the pads, where the water would evaporate quickly, and the water level would fall below the pump’s inlet again. If the water wouldn’t have been evaporating faster than the water filling the base of the cooler, the temperature in the house would have been 5 to 10 degrees cooler.
So what do the kitties do when the temperature is over 100º F outside? They lie around inside where the temperature 22 degrees cooler than outside.
Sasha cooling off on the base of the treadmill.
Marble stretched on the box on the table on the treadmill.
Loki giving me that “You’re bothering me boy!” look on the self in front of the treadmill.
Loki ignoring the paparazzo to concentrate on an electrifyingly cool nap.
Spunk discovered that lying in a small box in front of the cooler increased the airflow.
Silver in his favorite box on the table.
Red Sky at Night…
A thunderstorm rolled through around round 8:00 pm. We didn’t think there was going to be much of a sunset, but the skies began to clear as the sun slipped behind the horizon which produced a wonderfully red sky as darkness crept in all around us.
Off Center & Not Even 