Blacksmith World Championships

October 28, 2013 Timothy Price7 Comments

Who would ever think the we would have the World Blacksmith Championships right here in New Mexico, just outside the Duke City? Susan, Lois and I checked out the 4th Annual Blacksmith Worlds at the Wildlife West Nature Park and Rescued Wildlife Zoo east of Albuquerque, and had a wonderful time watching the blacksmiths compete in making horseshoes and hammering them onto horses hooves. Each team had one hour to make one shoe and get it on the horse. Then the next competition would begin until all the horses had new shoes and all four hooves.

Birthday Nails

October 27, 2013 Timothy Price8 Comments

Laurie painted her nails my two favorite colors for my birthday. They make good nails for Halloween as well.

The Cat Before The Storm

October 26, 2013 Timothy Price10 Comments

I seem to get constant kitty help these days. I walked out of the store to discover a small super cell was forming overhead. I drove straight into the storm and got a great lightning show on the way home. For all the lightning and thunder over the past 24 hours, we only received 2/10 of an inch of rain.

Back to France Friday

October 25, 2013 Timothy Price8 Comments

Streets of Paris, crucifix in Notre Dame, and some interesting architecture. Paris, France, June 2013

Cat Help

October 23, 2013 Timothy Price5 Comments

Laurie’s annotated bibliography about code switching became a “cat-otated bibliography” with “cat switching” as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern took turns checking out our progress. Guildenstern was very persistent, and insisted that lying on our papers, computers and arms was great help as we worked late into the night. The geese are foraging in one of Wagner’s fields every morning.

Air Camera

October 19, 2013 Timothy Price5 Comments

You may have heard of “air guitars” or “air drums”, well, while I was using Laurie as a model to test exposures before the 60th anniversary shoot, she started using an “Air Camera” on me.

A 60th Wedding Anniversary

October 18, 2013 Timothy Price11 Comments

Yesterday was Jim and Ann Mogford’s, aka Laurie’s parents, 60th wedding anniversary, so they came over to have their photos done. They had a lot of fun cutting up in front of the camera, and they were great models. The photos are straight off the camera with very few adjustments to the raw images and no post processing.

Open Door

October 17, 2013 Timothy Price13 Comments

Open door in the Old San Ysidro Church.

Bubble Wrap Bomb

October 16, 2013 Timothy Price5 Comments

Fedex delivered a box with a couple of printer cartridges this afternoon. When I opened the box, the bubble wrap exploded out of the box, kind of like a jack in the box. The result actually looked quite natural on my desk. The photo on the wall is Cranes in the Mist.

Lars the Red

October 13, 2013October 13, 2013 Timothy Price15 Comments

I gave Laurie a gift card to get her hair colored and styled for her birthday. Since she’s studying Old Norse, her inner Viking pushed her into going for the lighter red in her hair, so now my beautiful wife is a Viking redhead. Like Gorm in the Icelandic Sagas, I might not be considered the wisest among men, but we were both wise enough to marry beautiful women. His wife, Thyri, was considered Denmark’s Adornment. My wife, Laurie, I consider my Crown Jewel of Corrales.