Pre-dawn
Dawn
Inside and outside
Cats, open doors, all the same
Temperature, too
Marble
Sandias
Cheese line
Fallen trees
Spunk & Glenda
Old burn
All The Same
Category: Flowers
Flowers
Silence From The Frogs Featuring Teagan
Silence From The Frogs (Featuring Teagan Riordain Geneviene on Vocals)
Teagan was gracious enough to lend her beautiful voice to another of my original songs, Silence From The Frogs. I first published Silence Of The Frogs as a poem in 2017 while blogging on T & L Photos. I made the poem into a song in the summer of 2022. I first published the song with my vocals in February 2023. Teagan’s voice is a vast improvement over mine.
The tree trimmers cut the branch that fell on the powerline off the powerline but left it in the bamboo, still pulling down on the phone line. I have to duck under the phone line when I go out and in the gate. The tree trimmers worked late into the night, trimming the trees back from the powerlines and cutting the fallen branch off of it.
Pre-dawn
Dawn
Loki
Sunset
Zipper Season
High winds from this storm last night broke a huge branch off Teagan’s tree, pulled the lower powerline to within inches of our fence, and the lines started arching in the trees. My neighbor alerted me of the problem early this morning. Fire department staff stood out and watched the cottonwoods south of the broken branch catching fire and going out from the arcing powerline into late afternoon before the tree trimmers showed up to cut the tree back.
The branch is on the right. It’s hard to see between the irrigation ditch and our fence in the bamboo. The branch is about 12 inches (30.48 cm) thick.
A zipper spider blocked one of the deck doors last night. She had packed up and moved on when I checked on her this morning.
Closeup of a zipper spider between Iceberg Rose and the corner of the deck.
Bromiliad
Mid-morning
Skinny Mantis
Spunk grooming Marble
Sunset
Can’t Keep A Good Sunflower Down
Dawn
The Lonesome Sunflower
Beetles bit at stem
Buckled under mighty winds
The Lonesome still bloom
Sunset
Animal Daze
Sturgeon Moon on the set
Spunk, Sasha, Silver
Soft Sturgeon Moon
Søren, Loki, Beaker
Dahlias
Gwendolyn, Marble, Glenda
Afternoon thunderheads over Resa’s Tree
Purple Dawn
Take & Bake
Big moth
Silver: “Please don’t Take & Bake me!”
Lizard sunning
This hummingbird likes to perch on the wire while it gets nectar off the butterfly bush.
Spunk
Jugging Style
Sunflower at dawn
Loki was trying to get Marble to share the cheese. She kept her nose to the cheese bowl.
Gwendolyn and Spunk demonstrating different jugging styles.
Gwendolyn
Loki turning inside out
Loki wore himself out with his inside-out acrobatics and used Gwendolyn as a pillow.
A Simple Prayer
Dawn
Sunrise
I pray this bottle
capped up so tight
will loosen up
So I can jug tonight
If you can hear me
Though cats are held low
can you slap some sense
into that Paparazzo?
“Well? Did you feel anything?”
Water, but not enough to irrigate
“Stupid water!”
Cloudy night
Primrose Dawn
Dawn
Primrose @ dawn
Photo by Laurie for Susan.
Gangnam Style? I’m not sure why anyone would buy one of these. But then again, I couldn’t resist photographing it and making a gif.
First time I’ve seen the moon this month.
Dusk
