Category: Moon

Morning Moon

Timothy Price23 Comments

Pre-dawn

Morning moon

Doppel sleeping on Laurie at 5:00 a.m.

Rio Grande and Sandias at dawn

Another broken cottonwood

Jake

Doppel happy to be safe and secure inside.

A little color at sunset

Dusk

Baby Bullsnake at dusk

Daddy Owl

Spidery cloud at dusk

Venus

Doppel loves to snuggle

Doppel And The Lunar Eclipse

Timothy Price38 Comments

Doppel

Doppel decided he had had enough of the wild and asked to come inside at 3:00 a.m. this morning. We took him to the vet for an examination and testing this afternoon. For the most part, Doppel is healthy. No leukemia or FIV. However, he does have an infection of some kind. The vet called at 9:00 p.m. to tell us Doppel would be ready to be picked up in around 30 minutes. 

When we left at 9:15 p.m. to get Doppel, the moon was covered by clouds. When we got to the veterinary clinic at 9:40 p.m., the eclipsing moon was emerging from behind the clouds. When we left at 10:12 PM the moon was at peak eclipse. When we got home, the moon was covered by the clouds again.

The moon behind the clouds at 9:15 p.m.

Eclipse at 9:40 p.m.

Eclipse in stereo at 10:02 p.m.

The peak of the eclipse at 10:12 p.m. 

The moon was behind the clouds after we got back home with Doppel.

Sunrise Superman

Timothy Price37 Comments

I was inspired to write and record “Sunrise Superman” from my early morning walks with Jake.

Dawn

Sunrise

Jake and I had walked over a mile south of where I took the first photo of dawn before the sun began to rise.

Sunrise Superman
By Timothy Price

[Verse 1]
Sunrise Superman, twilight’s spy
Captures color with bedazzled eyes
In love, he Kisses Dawn’s pink blue skies
Silence broken by cranes’ cracked cries

[Chorus]
Sunrise Superman in love with dawn
Sunrise Superman twilight’s spawn
Sunrise Superman the day is drawn
Kryptonite clouds, they fade, they’re gone

[Verse 2]
Daybreak’s twighlight starts the day
Consumed by dawn along the way
Passes colors, pink, red, and gray
The light of blue has the final say

[Chorus]
Sunrise Superman in love with dawn
Sunrise Superman twilight’s spawn
Sunrise Superman the day is drawn
Kryptonite clouds, they fade, they’re gone

[Bridge]
Light breaks the darkness
Spawns colors bright
Sun peeks from under covers
Yawns big and stretches
Throwing rays far and wide
Into the the deep blue heavens
The Dead go back to bed
While goodness, forms awakens

[Outro]
Sunrise Superman in love with dawn
Sunrise Superman twilight’s spawn
Sunrise Superman the day is drawn
Kryptonite clouds, they fade, they’re gone

Let Them Eat Squirrel

Timothy Price34 Comments

5:45 AM

Looked like Mama Owl had a squirrel she was feeding to The Lone Owlet

Turtles at Dawn

Ducks at Dawn

Dawn

Towers at Dawn

Mudback of Notre Pond

Curious coyote pup

Tired-looking coyote mom

Settling in to sleep after a good squirrel breakfast

Pre-sunset

Black Pheobe catching flies at sunset

The Lone Owlet at sunset

Nice pink at sunset

Ducks at dusk

Dusk

Can you find Jupiter and Venus?

Jupiter and four moons

Jupiter and Venus are easier to see in the above photo.

Grounded

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The smaller owl was out of the tree on the ditchbank when Jake and I went on our early morning walk. Three coyotes were eyeing the owlet. I chased off the coyotes, ran home with Jake, grabbed a box, ran back, put the owl in the box, took it home, put it in the library, covered it and shut the door so the cats wouldn’t bother it. Luckily, Daddy Owl did not attack me, and Mama Owl was nowhere to be seen. I took the owlet to Animal Rescue in Albuquerque.

Daddy Owl watching th grounded owlet.

Owlet in the box

Sunrise

Lesser Goldfinch

The three coyotes were playing on the ditch bank across the ditch from the owlet’s tree when Jake and I resumed our walk.

Sunset

The lone owlet

Venus made a brief appearance through the clouds.

Jupiter and the crescent moon.

Uppity Kitty

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Worm Moon at Dawn

Cranes flying up north from down south are passing through.

“What’s this uppity women from the Middle Ages stuff? What about uppity middle-aged cats from the here and now? I’m going to go medieval on that paper!”

Sunset

Beaver in the pink

Cranes that flew from down south, on the way north, roosting at 4th of July Point for the night.

Bloody Worm Moon Setting

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Clouds tried to hold onto the Bloody Worm Moon

But it slipped through the clouds

Dawn

Cloud skullduggery

The river is down. The cranes are out!

Silver

Sunset

What’s the mystery shot of?

Where cranes once foraged
A lone duck stood reflecting in the shallows
Silence pushed against the current
Winter yawned while preparing her bed
Spring stirred under leafy covers
Dreaming colors that wait her awakening