Clouds at sunrise after rain in the night.
Pink snow on the Sandias at sunset.
A screenshot from the Sandia Peak Ski Area SkiCam at 5:05 pm this afternoon.
Pink Snow
Green Corner
Apple iSight cameras from 2003.
🎶I rearranged my office and put up a Mac Museum!🎶 After a staff member retired, I was able to rearrange my office, gather up some of our old Macintosh computers along with other vintage Apple devices, and use the green corner where my desk used to be to make a little Mac Museum.
View of the green corner my desk used to be in. I used old aluminum case Mac Pros for the shelf supports. I also ordered a small conference table to fill out the open space in the middle of the office.
I removed a desk and shelves from this corner of my office, put my desk there, and hung photos on the walls.
Orian’s desk. She’s our new data analyst.
A 23-inch Cinema Display from 2000, an Apple AirPort Extreme from 2009, and a PowerBook G3 from 1998.
I searched our storage unit and my infinite shed of doom and came up with various vintage monitors, Macs, and Apple devices
Purple iMac G3 from 1999.
iMac G4 from 2002.
A G4 Mac Mini from 2005, and an aluminum case 23-inch Cinema Display from 2005.
Macintosh SE/30 from 1989 and a PowerBook 1400 from 1996.
2nd, 3rd, and 4th generation iPods, an iPod touch, and an early iPhone. Behind the iPods is a 9.7″ iPad from 2012.
A view of my desk from Oriana’s desk.
A Gathering Of Cranes
Cranes circled above the house at sunrise.
Sunset
A large gathering of cranes in the distance.
Hanging out in groups of three.
Flying To The Moon
A crane flew to the moon one night
A silhouette against the cool light
Icarus flew close to the sun
He burned his wings, fell back to earth
The crane asked the broken man
“Why oh why are you such a fool? Men are not meant to fly!
Why oh why try to fly to the sun when by and by…”
The crane said with a heavy sigh
“…you know that you will surely die!”
Dam
Dawn
Beaver dam in the clearwater ditch.
A view from Beaver Point on the west bank of the Rio Grande.
A Frost Lining
Our volunteer baby cottonwood with yellowing frost-lined leaves.
Bloody Beaver Moon Through The Clouds
Eclipse progress at 1:54 am.
Eclipse at 3:09 am.
Bloody Beaver Moon at 3:40 am.
I could not see the full Eclipse through the clouds at 3:59 am.
On the other side of the eclipse at 5:10 am.
Close to where we started at 5:34 am:
6:01 am. That’s all folks.
Bloody Beaver Moon / Contrails Gone Wild
Dawn anticipates the violence of the sun
Contrails mark the night sky as they are blown, and reshaped into apparitions.
The beaver moon shining bright, and full of itself, rises in anticipation of becoming a bloody beaver moon in the wee hours of the morning†.
The above photo is only representative of the blood moon that will happen almost 8 hours after this post’s posting.
†There will be a full eclipse of the moon in the wee hours of the morning on 11/8/22 that will be visible from my location starting at 1:00 am. The full eclipse will be at 3:59 am. The moon will set before the eclipse ends at 6:56, close to sunrise.
Eye Spy
A Mourning Dove spying on me
Bluetooth Boombox
Laurie and I got ourselves a Fender® Audio Newport 2 Bluetooth Speaker for a combined birthday present. It’s stylish. It’s retro. It’s Fender. It’s very cool. It sounds really great, also. It has punchy bass, strong mid-range, and clear highs. It can be connected with Bluetooth, USB, or a cable with a 1/8-inch stereo jack on each end. While we thought we were getting this speaker for ourselves to listen to, the MLPs are going crazy over the new Audio Newport 2.
MLPs doing a happy Can-can.
The MLPs doing the hoof jive
Off Center & Not Even 