Bromeliad

June 28, 2014 Timothy Price12 Comments

Tristan gave me this bromeliad for Father’s Day. It sits in front of my computer adding extra color to the kitchenscape.

Digital Cricket

June 27, 2014June 27, 2014 Timothy Price22 Comments

DSCF0714 — Is that a cricket I see on the computer cable?

DSCF0715 — Ah Hem! Paparazzi! That cricket is getting awfully close to the USB port on your computer.

DSCF0716 — COME ON YOU STUPID PHOTOGRAPHER! There’s a cricket on the cable and it’s getting AWAY!

Note: Leo is mistaken. It was a ~~leaf hopper~~ katydid exploring my computer. Insect identification has never been one of Leo’s (or my) strengths.

A Touch of Blue

June 26, 2014 Timothy Price1 Comment

Bloom Five

June 25, 2014 Timothy Price18 Comments

All five lilies on the one stem finally bloomed. Quite a nice array.

Night Fury

June 24, 2014 Timothy Price13 Comments

I call this black dragonfly a “Night Fury” because I had been trying to get a photo of it for over a week — it had not let me get close enough to it until I climbed into the bamboo patch just before sundown and waited for it to land close enough to focus on it. The other two dragonflies in this series were very cooperative, as usual, but the Night Fury refused to land anywhere in the open outside the bamboo patch.

Wind Chill 101.3

June 23, 2014 Timothy Price11 Comments

The forecast for Corrales was for a high of 94º F on Sunday. Our thermometer showed a wind chill of 101.3º F at 3:00 pm. On Saturday the thermometer was reading 105º F, but since I had it mounted on a post close to the pump house, I suspected it might be picking up reflected heat; so I moved the thermometer to a post in the middle of nowhere on the property, and mounted at 6 feet of the ground, so the 101.3º F should be pretty accurate. The other two photos are cobweb covered stuff in the shed.