Albuquerque Airport: Passengers walk out of the secure area on their way to the baggage claim.
Crescent moon at midnight after being in airports and on airplanes for 20 hours.
Sunrise
Yucca at sunrise
Sasha helping unpack
Spunk helping unpack
Spunk taking a nap with me this afternoon
“You’re supposed to be napping, not snapping!”
Blooming
Sunset
Loki
Dawn
Sunrise
A Peacock Butterfly with a piece of its wing missing
I didn’t do it! I swear! I didn’t bite the peacock butterfly.
Eurasian Blackbird
Squirrel Nutkin again
European Robin
European Robin in silhouette
Gray Heron overhead
Atlas: “Why don’t you ever bring any of those birdies home for me, Paparazzo?”
Goldcrest
Freyja: “What about me?”
Illusive Eurasian Jay
Tree over the trail
Sunset
Bedtime
Dawn
Intersting
Old construction
Adoro i tuoi piedi puzzolenti, Paparazzo!
“Our drinking water is life!”
Lost souls swimming in a fishbowl
Ew! Gross, Freyja! You are supposed to be the goddess of love and sex, not foot fetishes!
Kurbelwellenbrunnen
Themenbrunnen
Sheesh! A Goddess can’t have any olfactory fun with Herr Gestapo-Katze around!
You are such a drama queen, Freyja!
Close to sunset
Dawn
Sunrise
She will have to explain this character in a comment. She told me about him, but I’m sure I would mix it all up.
I spent a delightful last day in Dundee walking around with Shey and John. We visited St Paul’s Cathedral, a museum, and the V&A. Then I stayed in the V&A until it was time to catch the bus to Edinburgh.
St. Paul’s Cathedral
The musem had excellent history of Dundee and Scotland.
This is an old movie theater turned into a performing arts space. John said the Lone Ranger visited the theater when he was five.
Precarious tagging
The gull on the streetlight was eyeing the man’s food.
Then we walked around in the old graveyard. The oldest headstones are from the late 1700s.
A lot of the graves had fascinating stone engravings.
The V&A us a wonderful place to hang out.
The have great exhibits
I was sitting in front of a window that leans out over the water.
On my walk to the bus stop
Caught a bus to the airport in Edinburgh
Spitfire outside the Airport Hilton in Edinburgh
Sunset
Dusk
Gigi asked if I was ever going home. There was an interesting question after I woke up to text messages that my flight to Frankfurt was canceled and had been rescheduled to fly out of Edinburgh to Zürich on Sunday and the fly from Zürich to Frankfurt on Monday morning. The problem with that schedule was I was scheduled to fly from Frankfurt to the States on Monday morning, also.
The reason the flight was canceled was due to a strike by the German airline workers on Friday. Which was planned to create major disruptions for people traveling back home from Easter break. To make a long story short, my flight back to the States has been moved forward a week so I could stick with the new flight schedule if I had to, because flights and hotels were filling up and prices were going up on whatever was left by the minute. After a lot of searching, I got a better scheduled flight back to Frankfurt on Saturday.
Freyja will be happy to get another week of morning walks in.
John gave me a tour of the Verdant Works Museum, and gave me an excellent history of the jute milling industry that made Dundee a boom town in the 19th century. Visit the Verdant Works Museum website for the history of the rise and fall of jute milling in Dundee in the 19th and 20th centuries: https://www.dundeeheritagetrust.co.uk/attraction/verdant-works/
Mostly women and children worked in the mills
Then we went up to the top of the Law, which gives people a 360 view of Dundee and the surrounding area below.
A little over a 180º view
Magpie at Law
The Discovery
Museum
The HMS Unicorn
Gray Heron trying to blend in
Dawn
Stretching wing at dawn
Sunrise
Synchronized seagull sleeping
Great architecture
This high school is as old as it looks.
The post office building
Museum
Grave yard bunny
Where North Sea oil rigs are decommissioned
European Starling
Starling and the Gull
Squirrel on Shey’s back fence
House Sparrow
Dunnock
Ruddy Turnstone
Eurpean Herring Gull
Gray Herron
Sunset
Flowers on Easter morning
Meow Meow meowed at the door last night. I let him in, and he was wet from the rain. He stayed around for a while comforting me. Then when he was dry, he asked to go back outside.
Sunrise
Laurie called me early this morning because Marble Kitty was having problems breathing. She took her to an emergency vet, and Marble had fluid pressing on her lungs. The vet removed the fluid and Marble had a collpsed lung with a mass in it. A long story short, she didn’t make it. Sadly we lost one of the sweetest kitties.
Between back and forth with Laurie on Marble’s condition, Marina, Socrotis and I went out to buy bread, and then in the afternoon we went to dinner in a restaurant by the sea.
It’s been raining on and off all day, and the area has received “buckets of rain” over the past few months, so the vegetation is green and wildflowers are blooming everywhere.
Dinner
View from the table
Local black cat
Long Legged Buzzard
Assissin Bug
Local frogs
We heard a chirping sound that sounded like a bird, but it was coming from under a concrete slab, and Merlin Bird ID could not identify what it was. Marina looked under the concrete but could see anything. I took photos under the concrete, and after I processed the photo, I found the frog on the right-hand photo with its head sticking up out of the water.
Houses with a great view
Handicap access to the water
This sweet dog came out to greet us
Sunset to the east
Cool lights over the dining room table in the Airbnb I’m staying in down the road from Marina and Socrotis.
Dawn
Koi in the Japanese Garden in Kaiserslautern
Not coy
Amine in the Japanese Garden in Kaiserslautern
“I’m being coy. Can I have a Koi?”
Common Shelduck
Bar-Headed Geese
Eurasian Moorhen
Last night
The Archer
The underside of a Eurasian Green Woodpecker
“The Woodpecker is way out of my reach!”
Eurasian Blackbird
Portraits of famous dogs in an Italian restaurant in Landstuhl
“Famous dawgs in Landstuhl? Not cool! Fool!”
Moon made an appearance between rain showers this evening.
Fly like an Egyptian Goose
A lone Egyptian Goose flew overhead this morning.
Am Rande des Regens
Hinter den Kohlmeisen, Hirsche
Auf dem Feld spielen
Atlas: “Oh Nein! Not another timku in German!”
Common Wood-Pigeon
Eurasian Blackcap
Eurasian Magpie
Is it safe to look?
Off Center & Not Even 