The Week: April 6th — April 12th

April 12, 2015 Timothy Price14 Comments

Photo of the Day, Etc for the week of April 6th — April 12th:

April 6th: Annoying photos of “Lola, la la la la Lola…”* — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/catzilla

April 7th: Lunar eclipse sequence with the Blood Moon — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/monday-bloody-monday

April 8th: Colorful dawn — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/morning-layers

April 9th: Flowers with more annoying cat photos* — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/flora-kitty-fauna

April 10th: Lady Banks — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/ladies-first

April 11th: Very NM — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/red-green

April 12th: And yet another annoying cat photo* — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/inside-looking-up

*There are people who find blog posts with photos of cats to be extremely annoying, so I’m giving fair warning that the post contains cat photos.

The Week: March 30th — April 5th

April 5, 2015 Timothy Price11 Comments

Photo of the Day, Etc for the week of March 23rd — 29th includes:

March 30th: Spring flowers and wild boar macaroni — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/flowers-food

March 31st: Spunk in the window — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/screened

April 1st: Construction — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/construction-progress

April 2nd: Spunk gets his kitty prints — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/kitty-prints

April 3rd: Moonrise and Lola — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/moonrise-lola-and-the-neon-tulip

April 4th: A snaky lick and wild turkey — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/snake-tulips-wild-turkey

April 5th: Flower girl — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/i-love-the-flower-girl

Still Blooming

November 3, 2014 Timothy Price16 Comments

As this America Rose continues to fade to pink, the other three buds finally bloomed, as it begins it 4th week of blooming since I first photographed it: http://photoofthedayetc.com/2014/10/25/fade-to-pink/

While this rose has been really hanging in there over the past few weeks, I have been busy over the last couple of weekends: I repaired the dryer and got the parts to rebuild it while I had it apart, and then we went on a photo excursion over my birthday weekend. This past weekend I helped my neighbor with computer and network issues, rebuilt our furnace, picked up several bags of Halloween candy for half price (after Halloween sale), developed three rolls of film, went to a concert by the NM Philharmonic, got a new old scanner set up and tested, installed a new, larger hard drive in Laurie’s computer, and made prints from some of the negatives I developed. Now it’s back to work after a productive weekend.

Fade to Pink

October 25, 2014 Timothy Price15 Comments

This America rose has faded to a nice pink over the past two weeks. The large bud opened and has been well preserved as turned from salmon to pink, but the three buds accompanying the rose have shown very little growth or progress toward opening. Between the very cool nights and shortened days, I’m not sure there is enough warmth or light left in a day for them to fully open.

The End of the Cosmos

October 19, 2014 Timothy Price22 Comments

One last cosmos was hanging on among the dried ends of cosmos stems and brown, hardened sunflower stalks. A green butterfly landed in the mulch to warm itself in the sun before flying off to forage for what little flowers remained. I was going to start pulling up the dead sunflowers, but the finches and sparrows were still feeding on them, so they will remain standing awhile longer.

Common Buckeye Butterfly

September 29, 2014 Timothy Price36 Comments

A Common Buckeye Butterfly was feeding in our meadow this afternoon. This is the first time I have seen a Buckeye Butterfly in the yard. It’s about the size of a Painted Lady.

Spider Daze

September 16, 2014 Timothy Price13 Comments

It’s that time of the year when the garden spiders are building their webs in the flowers and pathways. Last night I moved the hose from one drip system to the other, and felt something crawling on me — it was one of the zipper spiders. It had apparently built its web across the path and I didn’t see it in the low light of dusk. I felt bad that I had inadvertently destroyed her web. I moved her over to some tall grasses and she crawled off me into the grasses where she could build another web. Walking through her web reminded me of an old Far Side comic where a couple of spiders have a web built on the end of a slide and one spider is telling the other “If we pull this off, we’ll eat like kings!” You can see a copy of the comic here: http://blogerinblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/eat-like-kings.jpg.

Yellow & Red

September 10, 2014September 10, 2014 Timothy Price15 Comments

We have a forest of sunflowers and various dahlias in bloom. The last photo shows our outdoor weight room with its west wall of sunflowers.

Two Insects and an Arachnid

September 4, 2014 Timothy Price11 Comments

Designer Darkroom

August 31, 2014 Timothy Price11 Comments

I painted the outside of the darkroom and put up shelves for storage of the remaining equipment and supplies that are still in the dance room. There are three photos of the darkroom with a view from the top of the step, a view from floor level and a fisheye view just for fun. In-between the photos of the darkroom, I have a photo of our sunflower forest, and a photo of Veteran’s Honor with grasses, our black bamboo forest and trees behind it.