Saturday Spunk

August 2, 2014 Timothy Price22 Comments

Spunk waiting in ambush, napping, and waiting for story time with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Lightning Show

August 1, 2014 Timothy Price14 Comments

I was talking to an engineer, who is also an avid photographer, about taking lightning photos when I went up to pick up a piece of equipment he had been working on. We were noting that lightning is easy to photograph, but the danger made up for how easy it is to photograph. On may way home at 11:00 pm, there was a nice lightning show over the city, so I pulled off to the side of the road in the rain, set my camera on top of the car to stabilize it (didn’t have a tripod in the car), and took a few lighting photos before I got soaked in the rain. The results are interesting.

Yard & Clouds

July 31, 2014 Timothy Price20 Comments

Thunderheads built up in the eastern sky, threatening to give us another early evening thundershower.

Moth Buzz

July 30, 2014 Timothy Price13 Comments

The hummingbird moth seems to flutter its wings in slightly different patterns from the ghost images of its buzzing wings.

Lavender Mist

July 29, 2014July 29, 2014 Timothy Price14 Comments

Pollock’s title seemed fitting for this curly cosmos.

New Cat on the Block

July 28, 2014July 28, 2014 Timothy Price21 Comments

A kitten adopted our friend Vanessa, but she couldn’t keep it. Since we are down a couple of cats we decided to take him. So far the other cats are nominally accepting him. Rosencrantz has been the most welcoming so far, but none of our kitties have out right attacked him. In the first few hours after arriving, he ambushed Rosencrantz, Guildenstern and Diné and they hardly reacted. He very slowly and timidly crept by Mama Manx while she growled at him, but she only growled. At the moment we are calling him Spunky, as he is working very hard to get into trouble, but he may end up with another name as we get to know him better.

In The Heat, A Battle

July 27, 2014 Timothy Price15 Comments

Laurie pointed out that there was a bluebird in the bamboo being attacked by a hummingbird — by the time I got outside with my camera, the bluebird was standing its ground atop the pear tree next to the bamboo. I did get one shot of the hummingbird confronting the bluebird.

So much for 105 @ 5:00. Our weather station reported a wind chill of 111º F (43.9º C) at 3:47 pm yesterday afternoon, about the time the birds were battling (see the last photo).