¡Milagro!

Twilight

Jupiter under Resa’s Wolf Tree again

The Rio Grande at 5:30 a.m. this morning

Doppel loves the pink tarantula

The Rio Grande at 7:30 p.m. this evening. !Milgro! There’s water!

The Conservancy released water from Abiquie Reservoir. Why now? I have no idea. It’s past the growing season, and most of the cottonwoods in the bosque are suffering or bare, possibly dead. The release of water might be due with the agreements between Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico. But it’s too little, too late for the farmers and the trees.

In A Rut Again

Early morning sky

Willy Nelson would be “On the road again!” Well! Here I am in a rut again.

Trail under tree or tree over trail?

Moon on the verge of fullness

I see critters in the clouds

Intermission

Dusk

Owl at dusk

Can you spot Venus?

Big Gulps & Lost Soles

Dawn after the flash flood

Snow Egret caught a fish for breakfast

Another lost sole

Big Gulp

A lost soul, perhaps

The dark line on the opposite bank is the flash flood line, about 6 feet (two meters) above the current natural flow of the river.

Turtle tracks

The moon will be full tomorrow night, but we have not seen it the last few nights because of clouds.

Another Dawn

pTerodactyl tracks

A broken back lying on the riverbed at dawn

Spunk

Desert Dynamics

Dawn

Dusk last night. Dusk tonight.

A flash flood this afternoon left piles of debris where I have been walking on the riverbed.

The temp was 101.1º F (38.39ºC) this afternoon before cloud cover brought the temperatures down.

Mushroom clouds at dusk

Afterglow

Milk Chocolate Water

Not that we are getting a few thunderstorms in the evenings, the runoff turns the water flowing in the Rio Grande the color of chocolate milk. Inspired by the milk chocolate water flowing in the Rio Grande, I wrote and recorded a song of the same name and made it into the above music video.

The river was higher at dawn from runoff from thunderstorms north and west of us. By dusk, most of the water had receded.

Dawn (water). Dusk (mud).

The Snowy Egret that follows us around most mornings

Dawn

Almost sunrise

Dusk

Eastside Coyotes

Jake and I were walking on the riverbed at South Beach this morning when a couple of coyotes appeared on the east side of the river and started barking at us. They had a lot to say. A few weeks ago, the three coyotes we often see on the west side of the river walked down on the riverbed with us to get a drink of water. They were silent, and did all their business like, “Don’t mind us!” Jake and I were standing about 25 feet from the westside coyotes.

Dawn

Dusk. We’ve had a little rain the past few nights, so the river is up a little from the runoff.

Dainty Dawn

Dainty Dawn, what’s the color you have on?

A killer whale cloud over Resa’s Wolf Tree.

Clouds barring sunset

Wild clouds that were supposed to rain. No rain.

Post sunset color

Dusk