Last Day In Dundee

Dawn

Sunrise

She will have to explain this character in a comment. She told me about him, but I’m sure I would mix it all up.

I spent a delightful last day in Dundee walking around with Shey and John. We visited St Paul’s Cathedral, a museum, and the V&A. Then I stayed in the V&A until it was time to catch the bus to Edinburgh.

St. Paul’s Cathedral

The musem had excellent history of Dundee and Scotland.

This is an old movie theater turned into a performing arts space. John said the Lone Ranger visited the theater when he was five.

Precarious tagging

The gull on the streetlight was eyeing the man’s food.

Then we walked around in the old graveyard. The oldest headstones are from the late 1700s.

A lot of the graves had fascinating stone engravings.

The V&A us a wonderful place to hang out.

The have great exhibits

I was sitting in front of a window that leans out over the water.

On my walk to the bus stop

Caught a bus to the airport in Edinburgh

Spitfire outside the Airport Hilton in Edinburgh

Sunset

Dusk

A Dundee Day

Dawn

Stretching wing at dawn

Sunrise

Synchronized seagull sleeping

Great architecture

This high school is as old as it looks.

The post office building

Museum

Grave yard bunny

Where North Sea oil rigs are decommissioned

European Starling

Starling and the Gull

Squirrel on Shey’s back fence

House Sparrow

Dunnock

Ruddy Turnstone

Eurpean Herring Gull

Gray Herron

Sunset

Leaving On A Jet Plane

Clouds relfecting in the twilight

Geese @ twilight

Dawn

I’m flying to Germany tomorrow. Spunk helped me pack.

Spunk posing for Laurie

“What do you mean I can’t go?”

Sunset

Beaver

A beaver swam in the shallows, while cranes were taking a break on their way north.

Beaver stopped in front of us to get a snack. He paid no attention to us.

Dusk

Bloody Worm Moon Setting

Clouds tried to hold onto the Bloody Worm Moon

But it slipped through the clouds

Dawn

Cloud skullduggery

The river is down. The cranes are out!

Silver

Sunset

What’s the mystery shot of?

Where cranes once foraged
A lone duck stood reflecting in the shallows
Silence pushed against the current
Winter yawned while preparing her bed
Spring stirred under leafy covers
Dreaming colors that wait her awakening

Bloody Worm Moon Rising

Dawn

Who might the mistery kitty be?

Beeing like spring

Loki

Mama Taratula finally got here

The Worm Moon rising.

At 4:30 tomorrow morning MDT, there will be a full, bloody eclipse of the moon. If I wake up around 4:00 a.m., I’ll go out and see what I can see of it. The moon will be close to the horizon when it is fully eclipsed at 4:30, so I might not be able to see it through the trees.

The cranes left before the worm moon rose.

Dusk

The Worm Moon melting an alien

Happy Birthday, Jake

Jake turned 9 today. For some reason, I thought he would be turning 7, but no. He is 9, and old man like me. He got to sleep in for his birthday. We had leftover pizza for breakfast. Jake got the pizza bones (the crust) after his regular breakfast. We went out for our morning walk at noon.

We walked down to the beach, and Scoopy took Jake for a scoop on the wet sand.

Then Jake claimed his own island in the middle of the Rio Grande.

He made a couple of laps around the beach in celebration of his island.

Jake was a little dirty, a little tired, but satisfied with his birthday celebration on the beach. The rest of our walk was uneventful.

On our evening walk, Jake romped with a miniature Austrian Shepherd and made a new Japanese friend.

Dusk

Daddy Owl hooted “Happy Birthday, Jake” from the top of a tree.

Dusk sky

Nobody Expects…

Twilight

Sunrise

Paparazzo: “I hear a tail tell tale that you’ve been sneaking Squeezy Treats!”
Gwendolyn: “I didn’t expect the Paparazzo Inquisition!”
Paparazzo: “Nobody expects the Paparazzo Inquisition!”
Gwendolyn: “Well, that’s a tall tale told by a terribly troubled tattletale if you ask me.”
Paparazzo: “I’m going to have to have you tailboarded to get the truth of the matter.”
Gwendolyn: “You aren’t scaring me with your pathetic, Paparazzo Grand Inquisitor nonsense.”
Paparazzo: “You asked for it…”

Paparazzo: “Hmmm! It looks like the Adversary is on break. Lucky you, Gwendolyn!”

Gwendolyn: Whew! Looks like I dodged the Spunky art tailboarding torture. Stupid, pathetic prehistoric Paparazzo, out-of-touch Neanderthal trying to pull his out-dated Paparazzo Inquisition over my eyes. He’s obviously watched way too much Monty Python in his impressionable youth.

Crane at dusk

♠️🦵🏼❤️, 2

Another Twilight

Cranes in the shallows

Waining Snow Moon reflecting on iced river

Il Paparazzo’s long shadow from the waning Snow Moon waked Scoopy from his slumber on the frozen beach.

Scoopy gave Jake a hug! ♠️🦵🏼❤️, 2 = Shovels (spades) need love, too!

Mist on the river. It was 22º F (-5.6º C) this morning.

Black-laced tree at the Winter Moon. Black-laced tree at dusk.

Spunk, Gwendolyn and Silver

Daddy Owl