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Back In Black

Timothy Price53 Comments

Simple Sunrise

Black Butterfly

Black and yellow dragonfly

Black cats (Gwendolyn, Loki, Glenda)

Black caterpillars

New table and chairs in the Black Bamboo

Inspirational coffee in the Black Bamboo

Sunset

Thunderheads

Timothy Price26 Comments

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Thunderheads over the Sandias taken from Hwy 528 just south of Hwy 550.

Thunderheads appear, change and disappear very quickly in the desert southwest. They can produce sudden and heavy rains, high winds, intense lighting storms and hailstorms. But often they form and put on a show, changing into all kinds of shapes, and then evaporate without a sound or drop of precipitation.

The first four photos were taken over a timespan of 10 minutes while driving on Highway 550 to Highway 528 and on to Corrales Road. The Weather Service interrupted the radio to announce the there was heavy rain and flooding on the other side of the Sandias from these thunderheads.

The last photo was taken from our deck where we sit and watch the clouds form and change over the Sandias through the bamboo and cottonwood trees.

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Thunderheads over the Sandias from Corrales Rd. just east of Hwy 528.

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Wider view of thunderheads over the Sandias and stretching down the Rio Grande Valley taken from Hwy 528 just south of Hwy 550.

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Thunderheads over the Sandias from Hwy 550 west of Hwy 528.

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Thunderheads as seen from our deck.

Night Fury

Timothy Price13 Comments

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I call this black dragonfly a “Night Fury” because I had been trying to get a photo of it for over a week — it had not let me get close enough to it until I climbed into the bamboo patch just before sundown and waited for it to land close enough to focus on it. The other two dragonflies in this series were very cooperative, as usual, but the Night Fury refused to land anywhere in the open outside the bamboo patch.

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