When Jake and I left for our walk at 6:45 a.m., the temperature was 25º F (-3.9º C). When we got back home 55 minutes later, the temperature had dropped to 24º F (-4.4º C). We had been getting light frost for the past two weeks. This morning was the first hard frost.
Marble trying to warm herself in the cold sunrise
Our Burning Bush
Jake under half moon at sunset
Spunk lying on my lap in front of the fireplace in the library
Dawn
Jake hoping for a handout
A cluster of cats
Gwendolyn
Loki helping with laundry
Udderly rediculous
Spunk annoyed
Spunk eyes
The first of three of Susan’s roses
Sunset
Crescent moon at dusk
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?”
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
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
Lavender sunrise
Frost at dawn
Peace Rose
Gwendolyn hoping il paprazzo doesn’t see her
Spunk
Sunset
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
Pre-dawn
Most likely Daddy Owl, but I can’t say for sure.
U Duck couple in the duckpond at UNM
U Bunny
U Bunny’s buddy
Sunset
Pre-dawn
Out again at Dawn
Our coyote friends joined in
Conmigo y Jake
Flicker
Sunrise
Loki
Spunk
Jake watching the clouds
Sunset
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
Off Center & Not Even 