The Week: April 20th — 26th

Photo of the Day, Etc for the week of April 20th — April 26th:

April 20th: Betty Boop — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/betty-boop

April 21st: Annoying cute kitty photos — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/kitties-cute-abstract-and-otherwise

April 22nd: A very large tank — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/25k-gallons

April 23rd: First and last — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/first-and-last-blooms

April 24th: Seizures — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/seizures

April 25th: Pretty pinks — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/shades-of-pink

April 26th: Even more annoying cat photos — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/crazy-cute-kitties

The Week: March 16th — 22nd

This week’s Photo of the Day, Etc includes:

March 16th: A ragged butterfly — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/the-butterflies-and-the-bee

March 17th: An El Camino on El Camino Real — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/el-camino-on-el-camino-real

March 18th: Different views of the Sandias — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/a-different-perspective

March 19th: A lonely church — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/lonely-church

March 20th: A snuggly kitten — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/snuggle-attack

March 21st: Horsing around — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/horse-play

March 22nd: Arco Iris — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/rainbow

A Thought on Following

Various people have noted issues with bloglovin for getting notifications for my blog posts. But I was thinking, no one needs bloglovin, RSS feeds or email notifications if they are really interested in following my blog. Simply bookmark http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog in your favorite browser, and set a daily recurring reminder in your calendar for when you want to be reminded to check my blog. I post a blog everyday at 12:01 am without fail.

Photo of the Day, Etc has moved

I moved Photo of the Day, Etc to T&L Photos at http://photos.tandlphotos.com. You can see my daily photos, blog and more at T&L Photos. You can subscribe to the blog via RSS. You can also follow photos.tandlphotos.com at bloglovin.com.

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Church at Las Golondrinas

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One of the first buildings you come across at Ranchos de las Golondrinas is the church. The church is the north building of a hacienda that has a central plaza with a well in the center and hornos for baking. Note the church has a pitched, tin roof, but the other buildings have flat roofs. The church originally had a flat roof as well, and the tin roof would have been added after 1850 when New Mexico became a US territory which opened up trade and goods to come in from the Eastern US. The ceiling of the church still has the horizontal vigas (timbers) that supported the original flat, dirt roof.

The interior of the church has simple benches for pews, an artisan crafted retablo at the altar, and hand carved Stations of the Cross (the Stations of the Cross are a modern addition, according to a docent).

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Las Golondrinas

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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.

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October = Birthdays

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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.

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Psycho Kitty

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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!

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