Las Golondrinas is a living museum on a 200 acre site a few miles south of Santa Fe. They are having their annual harvest festival this weekend and all the sites and industries, set mostly around the early to mid 19th Century, are operating. We spent most of the day there yesterday, and I have a lot of photos to process, so for today, I have a few abstractly representative photos.
October is the birthday month for our family starting with Laurie’s mom, Laurie, Tristan, my mom, and finally me. Susan and I share the same birth date, and one of my best friends I grew up with was born 4 days after me. Laurie’s birthday was yesterday, and I made her a chocolate cake. She got a cute pair of purple suede shoes and a new set of watercolor brushes.
I was taking a shower, when I suddenly felt something grabbing my leg through the shower curtain. I had thoughts of Alfred Hitchcock’s movie “Psycho” when a psycho kitty suddenly burst into the shower.
But the bigger question is, why did I have a camera in the shower? Well, let me tell you, there are certain things you always need to have in the shower or bath with you — you never know when you will have to shoot — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvSZ_HQmZgQ!
This woman lighting up on her horse had a real model look about her that reminded me of the Marlboro Man.
The last day of September, the end of a fiscal year, seems to officially end summer and usher in the fall.
A Common Buckeye Butterfly was feeding in our meadow this afternoon. This is the first time I have seen a Buckeye Butterfly in the yard. It’s about the size of a Painted Lady.
Contrary to the what the photos may suggest, a Hootin’Nanny is not what you get when you cross an owl with a goat. A Hootin’Nanny, properly spelled “Hootenanny”, is Scottish for a celebration and we’re going to a hootenanny as part of the Corrales Harvest Festival — but there will be dancing, so this is one of those rare times the cameras will stay home in the safe as they pose quite a danger to other people when I’m dancing.
Spunk plays with his tail, his tail and his tail. The video (video link) at the end is of him watching a video of himself playing with a stick and interacting with himself on the video.
Spunk playing under the laundry basket.
