Dawn
Beaver dam in the clearwater ditch.
A view from Beaver Point on the west bank of the Rio Grande.
Dam
Tag: Bosque
Mixed Bag Bosque
Dawn
Shey’s Tree. Cindy’s Santa Cynthia Tree. Christine’s Tree on the right.
Jupiter In Trees
Rio Grande and Sandias at dusk.
A silhouetted D-Wowl flies off into the sunset.
Misty Mountain Hop
Misty mountain hop
Made for a good photo op
Balloons rose nonstop
Sunset
Does anyone remember “Misty Mountain Hop” by Led Zeppelin?
Bunny Log
Hare date 8-15 in the blessed year of our mother goddess Freyja two-thousand twenty-two. The human who walks around shooting everyone with a Bazooka was trying to irrigate. After the water that came flooding in, and forced me out of my culvert, stopped, the bazooka-wielding Paparazzo walked out to the Acequia Madre and discovered the water had stopped running in the mother ditch. Word had it that the giant diesel pumps up north that fill the Acequia Madre from the Rio Grande went south, so now il Paparazzo has to finish irrigating in the wee hours of the morning under the crescent smile of Máni.
¡Adios muchachos y muchachas!
I Tought I Taw a Putty Tat?
Pre-dawn
I Tought I Taw a Putty Tat?
Oh! I did! I did see a putty tat!
Venus and Jupiter
The Rio Grande is running high this afternoon.
Early Beaver Shot The Bunny
Dawn
NE view of the Rio Grande on Wednesday evening. NE view of the Rio Grande this morning.
SE view of the Rio Grande on Wednesday evening. SE view of the Rio Grande this morning.
A beaver up and out at dawn.
Bunning through the fence.
Shots of the Bunny
pTerodactyl at dawn.
Spunk is a Cat Tree hugger.
We got a really violent thunderstorm this afternoon. The wind was strong, driving the rain sideways, and the visibility was low. The weather station recorded the event as producing 0.95 inches of rain. The wind-driven rain got almost everything on the deck wet.
The clouds right after the thunderstorm. Views looking east and west.
The clouds at 7:30 pm. Views looking east and west.
8:11 pm (official sunset). Views looking east and west.
A Hard Heart
Dawn
A hard heart in sun-baked clay
Low flow with Sandias in the background. The river normally flows at the top of the bank I’m standing on. The bank is about four feet higher than the water right now.
A rare view looking north from the middle of the Rio Grande. The river is low enough that I walked around the corner in the top left of the above photo. Normally, the only way to get this view would be from a floatation device or to swim out to the middle of the river because the water is normally from bank to bank at this point.
Sunset last night.
Spunk Rock!
Stormclouds building up threatening to rain. I hope it’s more than just a threat.
Poca Luz y RÃo Bajo
Stinking
I was in the infinite shed of doom measuring and taking inventory of material for a project I’m working on. When I moved some wood, a darling baby skunk ran between my legs and took refuge under another infinite pile of doom before I could get a photo of it. When I pulled a door open that acts as a wall to a caged-in area in the shed, I was face to face with Mama Skunk. She lunged at me a few times when I stuck my phone in her face, but then she finally sat back and listened to me talk to her. She never acted like she was going to spray me. It’s possible that since I only take a shower a couple of times a week to save water, and since I was dirty, sweaty, and all dressing in black, she might have thought I was a big, stinky Nephilim paparazzo, who obviously could not be a threat the way I smelled.
Mama Skunk sitting back and listening to me talk to her.
Off Center & Not Even 