Night Sky
Spunk Art @ 5:00 AM
Mysty dawn
Coyote was doing a weird stretch this morning
We may have awakened him
That felt good!
The cranes are collecting
Silver trying to teach an early morning cat class.
Silver gave up on the cat class, and gave into the summoning sunrise.
Almost sunset
Jake: “Ah, hmm! Hey, paparazzo, when are we going back inside so you can feed me?”
Night sky
Jake and I went on a walk at sunrise
I was photographing this Downy Woodpecker as he worked his way around the power pole, making all kinds of noise. He flew as soon as he saw me.
From our walk at Sunset
Crescent Moon and Venus
First dragonfly photo of the season
The spider saw its shadow. Does that mean six more weeks of spring?
Peonies
Spunk Art
Another peony
Sasha: “To break in the brown striped bag, or not break in the brown striped bag? That is the comfy question!”
She couldn’t resist
Marble
Spunk after a long night of killing his tail and ears and making Spunk Art.
Dawn
Mama Dove
Osric Owl in the dark
Can you find the owlette?
Dog in the clowds at sunset
Dusk on the way to check on the owls
Last night
Tyranosøren Wrecks eating Laurie’s homework!
Belafonte watching the Super Bowl halftime show on Apple Music.
I don’t watch football, so I did not see the game or the halftime show yesterday afternoon. However, I read various complaints about the halftime show this morning on various platforms. Most of the complaints were that people couldn’t understand the lyrics, others about how Kendrick Lamar danced, moved around, and bent down while he rapped.
When I got home, Laurie said I needed to watch and listen to the halftime show on Apple Music through her fancy Apple headphones that have dimensional sound. I can’t speak to what it was like watching the halftime show live, but watching it on Apple Music, the show was spectacular and the sound was phenomenal through Lurie’s Apple headphones. I’m not fond of rap, but that was a great show and I liked the music.
As far as Kendrick Lamar’s moving around and bending down while he raps, moving and bending help to open up the vocal folds, making the rapper’s voice more effective. I don’t know if rappers know that instinctively or have been trained by vocal coaches to bend and move while rapping, but I suspect a combination of both.
Spunk Yoga
Almost full moon
Sunset
Moon at dawn
Venus and Saturn
Venus, Saturn and Neptune
Mars, Jupiter, The Pleiades, Uranus and a whole lot more
Moon at dawn from the office
Dusk
Wolf Moon in the trees
Spunk Art
Wolf Moon & Mars
Winter’s Moon Metal: Lirycs by Timothy Price. Music and Vocals by Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene.
This is the Metal version of the song I made with electric guitar, bass, and percussion instead of piano and acoustic guitar. The vocals and melody are the same as the version of Winter’s Moon I posted yesterday with piano and acoustic guitar. The Metal backing track really affects the mood and feeling of the song.
Winter’s Wolf Moon Rising
Early morning stars in the northern sky
On their second day at work, our two new staff members had the exciting task of helping me hang Laurie’s 6×9 foot (183×274 centimeter) painting. There were five staff members involved in the effort. I used L-brackets to secure it on the wall.
I also inherited the 40-inch (101.6 cm) screen on the right from Tristan because she didn’t want to ship it to Germany. I really spread out my spreadsheets on that screen.
Off Center & Not Even 