A Bit Of A Stretch

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?”

The Long Way Home

Dawn

Our walk at dawn, a sniff and pee for Jake, took much longer than normal this morning because of colors, critters, and a different route home that introduced Jake to an overwhelming variety of new smells and tumbleweeds to pee on.

Daddy Owl

Geese

A coyote following us

We had to stop and play with our Three Amigos

Intense oranges at dawn

A rather gray sunset

Foggy Bottom

Pre-dawn with Venus on the right.

Pre-dawn with Venus barely visible above the Sandias.

Dawn breaking, showing the fog rising off the river.

Daddy Owl hooting at the orange dawn.

Foggy Bottom

Left to right: Glenda, Loki, Gwendolyn. Silver in the back.

Sunset

Box Hugger

The river was up about two feet at dawn

Glenda

Spunk hugging boxes I broke down trying to keep me from taking them out.

The box hugger was holding his cardboard

Loki

A shot of Sandhill Cranes on a fly-by

Pssst! Hey you! Yeah, you, Paparazzo! Have any wire cutters you could spare?

Sunset

Tickles Jake’s Fancy

Pre-dawn

Venus

Tuumbleweeds hardened
Walking levees at twilight
Tickles Jake’s fancy

Dawn

Puddles on the paths

Still dawn

Spunk

Almost sunset

With the rains comes the need to repair the culvert that we use to drive over the drainage ditch. I went into my one-man chain gang mode and filled in the holes caused by the rainwater ponding on the culvert. I paused to take a few photos as the sun was setting.

Sunset

Balloons Balloons And More Balloons

Dawn

The first Sandhill Cranes flew overhead this morning

Launch before breakfast

Sunrise

Brain balloon

Beaver balloon

Birthday balloon

Porky Pig

Jack-o’-latern

Jake was bored with the balloons

Little Miss Mousy

Inn of the Mountain Gods balloon

Princess Nelly

Flying Pig

I’ll be doggone

“One for the money. Two for the show. Three to get ready. Now float, float, float!”

Miss Cheetah

The Vampire and the Pirate

Miss Goldfish swimming in the deep blue sky

Mr. Cool Mouse

Clouds to the east. Blue sky to the west

Little Indian

Parrot balloon perching on tree branches

Wolf balloon

Gwendolyn and Loki

Sunset

TRS-80

Dawn

Squadron

A Radio Shack TRS-80 Micro Computer System. Released in 1977, it’s a true tech antique. It’s amazing it still works. I had fun doing a bit of Basic programming. TRS = Tandy Radio Shack, and 80 = Z80, referring to the Zilog Z80 8-bit microprocessor the computer is built with.