And Yet Another Dawn and Dusk

Crescent moon at dawn

Venus

Owl in his favorite spot this week

Moon and Venus over Sandias and Rio Grande at dawn

Foggy

The river has finally brought the water table up, and there is water in the clear water ditch again.

Sunset

Jake sniffing the sunset

Doppel

Spunk: “Whaddya mean leave Doppal alone? Prepare to die PapaRaZZO!

Clouds spray at Dusk

Variedades

Dawn

Venus on the power line

Venus getting swallowed by Dawn’s light

Crescent moon and Jupiter in a tree

Rio Grande

Weird exposure

Funnel web

Cracking up

Marina’s Incognito Pear Tree in red and still blooming.

Doppel thinks I get up too early

On the wall in a New Mexico Piñon Coffee shop

Jake got caught by the skeeter net again.

Sunset

Yurtle the Turtle was foraging where I stand to take photos when the river isn’t running so high.

Spunk made a SpunkArt installation while we were on our sunset walk with Jake.

Cloud Ate Moon

Stop! Dead End!

Cranes foraging at dawn

Sunrise

Jake enjoying the sunrise

“I say, I say there! You’re bothering me boy!”

Flicker

Spunk: “Flicker, you say?”

Taboo

Bowie waiting for us

Bowie was playing with Jake’s tail. Jake didn’t care. He was looking for a handout.

View of the rain on the west side from the east side.

Rain, Shine & High Water

Storm clouds

Wet rose

Burning bush

Taboo

Marina’s Incognito Pear Tree is confused with putting on red leaves for fall and blooming at the same time.

Sunshine and rain at the same time

Spunk

The river running high from the rain

Glenda: “Whoa! That’s a lot of water!”

Rain and shine on the Rio Grande

Doppel: “Lovely light, il Paparazzo! I like looking at it in photos instead of real time in the rain.”

Jake contemplating the rising river

In The Dog House With The Cats

The cat food bag at 5:00 a.m.

The cats got me up at 5:00 a.m. to feed them like they do every morning; however, when I opened the bag to get their food, the bag was empty, except for six kibbles, which was one kibble short of the clowder swarming around my feet. Oops! I forgot to drop by the store on the way home from work last night to get kitty food.

Silver: “Don’t give me any of your cockamamie malarkey about ‘Let them eat tomatoes!’, which is pronounced toemahtoes, BTW, pathetic Paparazzo, because it ain’t going to stinking happen!”

Gwendolyn: “YOU STINKING, PATHETHEIC, LAME BRAINED, PREHISTORIC POPARAZZO!!!! Knuckle dragging, sorry excuse of a silver-haired Sasquatch. You irresponsible, long-haired redneck rascal! I can’t BELIEVE you FORGOT to stop by the store to get us kitty food on your way home from work. It’s been like over 12 hours since we’ve eaten! That’s like 12 years for our kitty stomachs. Now you listen to me, and you listen good, PAPARAZZO!!! You get in your stinking little sports car, and you stinking speed to that stinking store as soon as it opens and get us some STINKING KITTY FOOD! UNDERSTOOD?

Meanwhile, back in bed, I slept in until 6:30 a.m. because it was 27º F (-2.8º C) when the cats got me up at five to fail at feeding them. When Jake and I left for our walk at 7:00 a.m. the temperature had dropped another degree.

Geese in the mist again

Sun streaks in the mist

Sunrise in the mist

After I got back from the store and fed the cats, I worked on winterizing the outdoor kitchen and the irrigation system.

Glenda: “I forgive you, forgetful Paparazzo!”

Content cats

Loki and I sitting in front of the fire doing Duolingo.

Cranes flew by at sunset

A touch of pink