All Tired Out

June 29, 2014 Timothy Price11 Comments

I got a flat tire on the truck, put on the spare and drove the flat tire to Discount Tires to see if they could repair it. Even though the tire didn’t have much wear, it was over 10 years old, so he said by law he couldn’t touch it. A guy from the Midas shop next door walked by and said, I think I have some used tires that will fit. He didn’t have any 225/15s, but he had a pair 235/15s, which are a bit bigger. For $30 he mounted and balanced the two 235/15 tires, and put them on the back of the truck, and then he out the two better tires of the 3 remaining originals on the front. That was quite a deal, since the lowest price set of four new tires for the truck would run about $400, and since I don’t drive the truck very often, I didn’t want to put a new set of tires on it right now.

After a morning run and repairing one of the drip systems this morning, to getting tires replaced, loading and unloading my other large snake cage and a bunch of stuff out of Tristan’s garage, I’m all tired out. While making my evening rounds with the camera, I noticed that the white lilies, Rosencrantz and a hummingbird where tired out as well.

Bromeliad

June 28, 2014 Timothy Price12 Comments

Tristan gave me this bromeliad for Father’s Day. It sits in front of my computer adding extra color to the kitchenscape.

A Touch of Blue

June 26, 2014 Timothy Price1 Comment

Bloom Five

June 25, 2014 Timothy Price18 Comments

All five lilies on the one stem finally bloomed. Quite a nice array.

Night Fury

June 24, 2014 Timothy Price13 Comments

I call this black dragonfly a “Night Fury” because I had been trying to get a photo of it for over a week — it had not let me get close enough to it until I climbed into the bamboo patch just before sundown and waited for it to land close enough to focus on it. The other two dragonflies in this series were very cooperative, as usual, but the Night Fury refused to land anywhere in the open outside the bamboo patch.

Adobe Sculpture

June 14, 2014 Timothy Price12 Comments

Another garden on the Corrales Garden Tour had adobe sculpture in various states of dissolution. Adobe sculpture is a little like longer lasting sand paintings, but instead of erasing them at sundown, the adobe sculptures slowly erode back into the earth.

Rammed Earth & Native Grasses

June 13, 2014 Timothy Price19 Comments

“This integral arrangement — minimalist home of rammed earth walls, plus native grasses — works perfectly as a unit.” reads the introduction to the writeup on the Roger and Mary Downey Garden for the Corrales Garden Tour we went on last weekend. The house sits in the center of the property surrounded by native grasses. Since this is only late spring, the grasses are just starting to grow. The grasses are best seen in the fall when they have reached their full heights and display their varied colors — colors that are reflected in the rammed earth construction of the house.

RammedEarthHouse — South face of the house. The interior shots below show the rooms from left to right in this photo.

A18W1825 — Artists were painting various scenes.

A18W1820 — Stand alone bedroom with its one bathroom.

A18W1837 — Entry and long hall on the north side of the house.

A18W1842 — Long hall leading to the last room on the east end of the house.

A18W1839 — The last room on the right (east end of the house) has a display of figurines, a throw rug and a frosted glass table.

A18W1840 — Interesting ceiling in the last room on the right.

A18W1841 — Looking down the hallway back toward the entrance from the last room on the right.

Dragonfly & Bumblebee

June 11, 2014 Timothy Price25 Comments

First dragonfly of the season. The bumblebees love clover.

Sex in the Desert at Desert Harbor

June 6, 2014June 6, 2014 Timothy Price19 Comments

I’ve read that besides their voracious appetite for aphids, Ladybugs have an average of 400 different sex partners over their lifetime. Besides Ladybug love, many other insects were pollinating the flowering plants at Desert Harbor Retreat.