Happy Growlloween!

Jake turns into a Werejake on Halloween

Holy Jakamole! That’s impressive! And the rest of you cats think I’m silly to be wary of Jake! I rest my kitty case.

The President of UNM’s yard

Sandias under the half moon. The Pleiades rising on the left.

Hard Frost

When Jake and I left for our walk at 6:45 a.m., the temperature was 25º F (-3.9º C). When we got back home 55 minutes later, the temperature had dropped to 24º F (-4.4º C). We had been getting light frost for the past two weeks. This morning was the first hard frost.

Marble trying to warm herself in the cold sunrise

Our Burning Bush

Jake under half moon at sunset

Spunk lying on my lap in front of the fireplace in the library

A Bit Of A Stretch

Night Sky

Spunk Art @ 5:00 AM

Mysty dawn

Coyote was doing a weird stretch this morning

We may have awakened him

That felt good!

The cranes are collecting

Silver trying to teach an early morning cat class.

Silver gave up on the cat class, and gave into the summoning sunrise.

Almost sunset

Jake: “Ah, hmm! Hey, paparazzo, when are we going back inside so you can feed me?”

Tickles Jake’s Fancy

Pre-dawn

Venus

Tuumbleweeds hardened
Walking levees at twilight
Tickles Jake’s fancy

Dawn

Puddles on the paths

Still dawn

Spunk

Almost sunset

With the rains comes the need to repair the culvert that we use to drive over the drainage ditch. I went into my one-man chain gang mode and filled in the holes caused by the rainwater ponding on the culvert. I paused to take a few photos as the sun was setting.

Sunset

Rain

Started the day with some purple rain

Which turned the river red

A dark, rainy day required extra light and a bird

Loki napped during a mid-morning rain shower

Dark, cloudy and rainy all day

I’m not giving you two pennies for your thoughts about il paparazzo, loki and Silver

Mirroring

Belafonte giving il paprazzo the beak

Jake was happy to lick whipped cream off the beater

Silver captivated by The Tale Of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman.

Sunset

Balloons Balloons And More Balloons

Dawn

The first Sandhill Cranes flew overhead this morning

Launch before breakfast

Sunrise

Brain balloon

Beaver balloon

Birthday balloon

Porky Pig

Jack-o’-latern

Jake was bored with the balloons

Little Miss Mousy

Inn of the Mountain Gods balloon

Princess Nelly

Flying Pig

I’ll be doggone

“One for the money. Two for the show. Three to get ready. Now float, float, float!”

Miss Cheetah

The Vampire and the Pirate

Miss Goldfish swimming in the deep blue sky

Mr. Cool Mouse

Clouds to the east. Blue sky to the west

Little Indian

Parrot balloon perching on tree branches

Wolf balloon

Gwendolyn and Loki

Sunset

Bird In Hand

Dawn

I did not see any balloons this morning. I believe it was too windy. It’s been windy all day.

How does the saying go? “A bird in the hand…”

“…is worth two in a fight?”

Tycho Kitty is lying on the floor, contemplating Jake.

German candle powered fan

Spunk Art in blue

Spunk Art unplugged? Or, perhaps, Spunk plugging his art?

Almost to the Harvest Supermoon

Sunset

Jake’s interest in the sunset tonight