Chritmas Cranes
Jake waiting to go to grandma’s for Christmas
Traditional, handmade smokers made by German craftsmen that Tristan sent from Germany.
Angry Beaver Curmudgeon Claus
Dogo Claus
Cute Angry Beaver Claus
Resa’s Tree with whipped cream on top.
Rudolf working with a skeleton crew!
How Jake sees cats
What! Jake thinks cats are crazy? I don’t know what he’s thinking.
I think you’re exaggerating, Jake!
Merry Christmas!
Pre-dawn
Well, do you know why I came here tonight?
To buy a board, I could cut in broad daylight
I was so scared that I stood there impaired
Caught up in their marketing lair
Christmas to the left of me
Halloween to the right
There I was, stuck in the middle with no clue
Yes, I was stuck in the middle. Couldn’t move!
Got Cheez?
Dusk on the Rio Grande pretending to be a lake.
There are no bones about it. Home Depot rules when it comes to Halloween props displays.
I had to go to Home Depot to get a hose coupler Lowe’s* doesn’t carry and was greeted by a massive display of Halloween props. When it comes to skeletons, they a well-stocked.
While I was photographing this display, a man walked up and said his wife looked like the witch. I told him not to let her hear that. He said no, seriously, they really look like each other. It’s probably good to have a prop as a doppelgänger. As the prop is less likely to get you in trouble.
The Mash Monster is bizarre.
I’m not sure what the black skeletons with the bat or cat ears are.
Costco’s Halloween selection is lame, with a scrawny mummy. Costco has Christmas stuff already.
I found this guy to be the scariest of all. Imagine him going medieval on your nuts!
*I don’t prefer Lowe’s over Home Depot. Lowe’s is more convenient.
Coyote posing for me in the early morning cold
Timku
Coyote stands proud
A Corrales Christmas Card
Merry Christmas, All!
Cats left to right: Sasha, Gwendolyn, Glenda, Marble, Silver, Spunk, and Loki.
Collabku
Cow cats Christmas Eve
Pigging down expensive treats
Happy for awhile
Spunk
Spunku
Christmas wrappers lie
Kitties rest, play, tell the truth
Cats love Christmastime
Marble and Spunk
I’m taking a break from my break to do a Christmas post. Merry Coyote Christmas! Happy Catmas! Merry Christmas!
Christmasku
Christmas contrail hangs
Reindeer emissions spreading
Supercharging sleigh
Merry Christmas! Resa’s Tree over the casita around Christmastime in 2004.trees
My photographer for Day 3 is Randall who has Global Sojourns Photography at https://dalocollis.com/. Randall is a fantastic photographer and an excellent writer who combines philosophy with his travel photography.
Jupiter and Saturn shining through a thin layer of clouds on Christmas Eve, 2020.
Day 3 is a series of photos from the De Na Zin Wilderness area south of Farmington, New Mexico. On our way back from the Native Plant Society conference in 2008, many of the participants stopped by the badlands. While most of the group was looking at plants, I and another photographer were occupied with the landscapes. We got separated from the group several times. In this area, which is part of the Bisti Badlands, there are whole petrified trees, hoodoos (formations that were platforms for trees), fossils, and well-sculpted barren landscapes.
Spunk helped us un-bag Christmas stuff. He also decided to try his paw at kitty Haiku.
Hack, hack a hairball
This fine and Christmassy day
Chukka, yukka, Uk
A sparrow’s feathers
Freshly regurgitated
Grass freshly eaten’
A better gift none
For the human that I love
Watching where you step
Off Center & Not Even 