
December’s Cold Moon woke me up shining through the window in the wee hours of the morning.




Cold Moon looked warm setting through the clouds


The rivers is up about two feet from last week





I went to see Alice Cooper last night. It was a fun concert. He is still a great showman. I was about 25 feet from the stage in the center. I got four guitar picks thrown by the guitarists, but I only kept one. The people around me really wanted those picks. Nita Strauss does great hair whips. I caught a lot of them. Ryan Roxie and Tommy Hendriksen rocked on their guitars. Chuck Garric played a mean bass, and Glenn Sobel was fantastic on the drums. I assume Alice’s daughter, Calico, played the Pirate, but I can’t say for sure. Alice had a boa constrictor close to the same size as my Blue. Cold Ethyl had the same hair as Sia. Hmmm! Alice lost his head, of course. Here are some photos from the show. Click on the photos to enlarge them.
































We celebrated Jim and Ann’s (Laurie’s parents) 70th wedding anniversary today.

We had a shindig


Jim with his Studebaker convertible. Ann wearing the dress she got married in.
Jim was in the Navy in San Diego in 1953. He didn’t want to have a blood test before they could get married, which was required in California, so they drove to Yuma, Arizona, to get married because pre-nuptial blood tests were not required in Arizona.

On their way to Yuma, AZ, to get married.

La Familia: Liz, Lea, Ann, Jim, Lane, and Laurie.

Happy 70th Anniversary!

The Moon, the Pleiades, and Jupiter are across the top of the photo early this morning.

Sunflowers at Dawn

Venus at Dawn
Gino called me first thing this morning to see if I could go out and film Mr. Williams operating a large Link-Belt crane that few people in the city know how to operate at a construction site on Albuquerque’s west side. I drove over and took video and photographs for a couple of hours and compressed the video footage into a three-and-a-half-minute video of Mr. Williams hoisting trusses up onto the roof of the building under construction. The framing contractor is Nelson Framing. Jerry Nelson, the owner, and Gino have worked together on many projects. The building contractor is Bradbury Stamm Construction. The Superintendent of the construction site was kind enough to lend me a hard hat and vest to wear. Nelson’s staff working with Mr. Williams on the ground and on the roof came over and introduced themselves before they started hoisting trusses.

Miss Ing Link, the large Link-Belt Crane set up in the middle of the building project.
The 3 1/2-minute crane video with music
Il paparazzo delle costruzioni
