Trees & Fiery Skies

January 31, 2020 Timothy Price46 Comments

As I walked out to where I could see the sunset last night, I photographed the trees in the afterglow. When I got out by Tiffany’s tree, I turned around to see a blazing sky lit up by clouds glowing like embers, their flames bursting into the heavens.

DSCF5369 — Robin’s Tree in the afterglow.

DSCF5370 — Tiffany’s Tree reflecting red.

DSCF5371 — Susan’s Tree on the edge of a fiery sky.

DSCF5373 — Susan’s, Lavinia’s, and Resa’s Trees in front of a blazing sky.

DSCF5377 — Silhouette of Resa’s Tree against the fiery sky.

DSCF5378 — Blazing sky behind Lavinia’s tree in the center.

DSCF5380 — Fiery sky gives way to smokey clouds behind Susan’s Tree.

Trees at Sunset

January 25, 2020January 25, 2020 Timothy Price38 Comments

DSCF5335 — Cool clouds over the levee and bosque.

DSCF5362 — Susan’s Tree, Teagan’s Trees, Robin’s Tree, and the unclaimed Tree. There’s an owl in Teagan’s Tree.

DSCF5364 — Teagan’s Tree with an owl perched in it.

Below is a closer shot of the owl in Teagan’s Tree. The owl flying over us as we walked towards it on the ditch bank. The owl landed in a tree behind me along the ditch bank. Two closeups of the owl.

Wild Western Sky

January 24, 2020January 25, 2020 Timothy Price42 Comments

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I walked out to beaver point just before sundown. Clouds in the western sky were bursting out of a hole where the sun peeked through.

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Birds of the Day

January 3, 2020 Timothy Price23 Comments

0A6A7921 — Half moon, Canadian Geese, Sandhill Cranes, Seagull, Great Blue Heron, Crow

Birds that flew overhead when I walked out to the river and back this afternoon.

Night Clouds

January 1, 2020 Timothy Price18 Comments

DSCF5131 — From left to right: Resa’s tree, Robin’s tree, unclaimed trees and Susan’s tree.

As Suzette was leaving after having black eyed peas for new year’s, she texted me that the clouds looked really cool behind the trees. I ran out and took photos. A third moon was hanging in the western sky.

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DSCF5134 — Orion’s Belt at that top of the photo.

Cold & Cranes

December 29, 2019 Timothy Price36 Comments

The temperature never rose above freezing today. I walked out to Beaver Point right before sunset, and a group of cranes were hanging out in the Rio Grande, wading around fluffed up to keep warm. There was a lone Canadian goose hanging with the cranes, and a duck floated by and then took off.

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Trees for Lyn

December 28, 2019 Timothy Price28 Comments

Lyn Wilderdean would like to join the tree club with Mia, Resa, Robin and Holly, and have her own tree. I have posted four available trees that photograph fairly well for Lyn to choose from.

The first two photos are of a young, volunteer cottonwood that propagated in the irrigation water. Laurie raised it from a sapling after it sprang forth around 2002. It’s rare to get volunteer cottonwoods.

The third photo (taken today) and fourth photo (during summer, in bloom) are of our Chitalpa that Tristan gave to Laurie for Mother’s Day in 2002. It was heavily damaged from a late hard frost in 2005. We thought we might lose it, but it has come back in a unique shape.

The fifth photo is a gnarly old cottonwood on the eastern edge of our property. The six photo is a big old cottonwood on the southern edge of the property.

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