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Sunrise

We met the three coyotes on the levee again this morning.

Loki: “Psst! Marble! You really don’t want to eat that cheese. Il paparazzo had his filthy paws on it, you know!”

Gwendolyn

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Purple mountains and water at sunset tonight.

Coyotes & Cockleburs

We had hard rain on and off this afternoon.

When Jake and I went on our early morning walk, we encountered a pack of three coyotes. We were walking on the lower bank, and the coyotes ran up on top of the levee and watched as we walked by.

As you may know, Jake loves to lift his leg on tumbleweeds. Currently, the tumbleweeds are green and soft; however, Jake discovered cockleburs on the lower bank. While the cockleburs are also still green, they are nice and scratchy.

Jake looking cool in the car

A short reprieve from the rain.

The clouds were gathering again when I left for the store to get cheese for the cats. It started raining hard again. I sat in the car and did Duolingo until the rain let up enough to where I wouldn’t get soaked walking into the store.

My rain gauge recorded 4/10 of an inch of rain this afternoon, bringing us up to nearly an inch of rain for the month of June.

Spunk Art & Doves

Spunk Art I encountered at 4:30 in the morning.

Mama Dove is on a new clutch of eggs. I believe this is her fourth.

A Eurasian Collared-Dove noticed the paparazzo while getting a drink, and flew right after this shot.

Wind ripples the Rio Grande at sunset.

Man’s face in the cloud, looking down on the scene below him.

Plugged In

Sunrise

A friend dropped by, and we played guitar for a while. Silver plugged in after my friend left.

Paddleboarders on the Rio Grande

Una señora pato

Blue Grosbeak on blue

So, so you think you can tell 
Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain 
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? 
A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell?†

†”Wishing You Were Here” by Pink Floyd.

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

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