The Week: April 13th — 19th

Photo of the Day, Etc for the week of April 13th — April 19th:

April 13th: Ride of Spring — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/ride-of-spring

April 14th: Cool car — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/mg-1600

April 15th: iFly — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/ifly

April 16th: Sunset — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/sunset

April 17th: Annoying cat photos* — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/anticipation

April 18th: Tunnel — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/tunnel

April 19th: Roadrunner on rails — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/rail-runner

*Wow only on set of cat photos this week!

Teagan just gave me the idea to add a poll so you can vote on a favorite post:

Hoot Owl at Dusk

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While walking back home in the dark from what turned out to be a 6.5 mile walk, I could hear the owls hooting at each other. As I looked around to see where the hoots were coming from, I saw what looked like a large cat at the tip top of a cottonwood, backlit by the afterglow of the sunset. The owl was too far away, and it was too dark, for me to get anything but silhouettes of it.

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Sunset in Purple

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Purple clouds at dusk looking northeast.

 

I walked a mile and a half south of the house and got the sunset looking northeast, east and south while standing in the middle of the Rio Grande. Besides the normal shades of yellows, pinks and blues, the interesting shaped clouds to the north turned purple.

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Pink Sandias, looking east

 

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Interesting clouds. Looking northeast.

 

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Sunset looking directly south

 

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Crows flying into the layers of the sunset looking directly south

 

 

Eagle on the Rio Grande

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I went out for a walk along the Rio Grande just before sundown. A Bald Eagle was flying home along the far bank of the river, almost out of reach of my 70-200 mm zoom lens at 200 mm. The Sandhill Cranes were flying in for the night looking like bombers in formation as they flew overhead. As I made my way back home through the bosque, a lone crow sat on top of a branch watching the last bit of pink before it faded into the gray dusk.

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