Venus @ dawn
Moon and Juper aligned.
Venus again
Can you find the owl in the above photo?
And yet another shot of Venus!
Colorful dawn sans clouds
I normally stand on the island on the left for some of my early morning shots.
Random intermission
Sunset
Cranes
Flaming dusk
At dawn, the river had risen more from rainfall during the night and early morning.
Clear skies looking south at a volcano.
Sunrise
Sunset
A big tree floated by
Long after the sun had set, there was a persistent glow.
Rings aroung the Harvest Moon
Moonlight on Sandias and geese
Intermission
Dusk
Wade through darkness gloom
Owls call, hoots fall with the rain
Soaked by storm’s soft tears
Someone left the Jake out in the rain again
When Jake and I got home from our walk in the rain last night, the rain gauge showed 1.75 inches for the month. When I left for my walk at 5:25 this morning, the rain gauge showed 1.84 inches. When I got home at 7:00 it showed 2.0 inches. The rain gauge currently shows 2.71 inches of rain for September. It’s been several years since we received that much rain in one month. It’s supposed to rain Thursday and Friday, also. It seems Super El Niño may have finally arrived.
Turkey Vulture in the rain
Doppel
Dusk
Rio Grande at dusk
Twilight
Before: green slime. After: milk chocolate water.
Milk chocolate water
Washed green slime to the rio
Flood water. Power
Doppel
Loki
Entertainment while waiting for The Warning
Dusk
“My iPad!”
5:30 a.m.
Slivery sliver moon
Slivery Moon and Jupiter
Daily Doppel
Spunk
Sliver was a little trashed
A cloud barking at somthing
Loki
Start of a rainbow
Less than a week after the multi-agency effort to release 650 million gallons of water into the Rio Grande as a “scientific experiment… to learn how the water flows through the river…”, all 650 million gallons of water have since flowed past Corrales, and the river is back to where it was last Monday before the water was released last Tuesday. I hope the bureaucrats learned how water flows through the river.
It seemed like a good time to post The Drought, that I wrote, recorded, and made a video asking the question, “Where did all the water go?” The song is raw and rough, in the style of what I call “Dry Metal.” The lyrics are at the end of the post.
Spunk: “I can’t believe all the water’s gone!”
Back to the start of the day.
Cracked clay on one side
Green slime on the other side
Dichotomousness?
Daily Doppel
Sunrise
The Drought
By Timothy Price
[Chorus]
Where did all the water go?
Where did all the water go?
Where did all the water go?
[Verse]
Scorched earth, cracked white clay
Fried in dryness, woe
Drought sucks life’s blood away
Where did all the water go?
[Chorus]
Where did all the water go?
Where did all the water go?
Where did all the water go?
[Verse]
Thirsty plants bow their heads
Pray for rain, the watershed
Parched seeds cry die of thirst
How have we earned this curse?
[Bridge]
Sun shines happiness
We frolic in deceptive rays
Encourages us to foolish ways
Water’s precious, so we say
But we waste it anyway
In denial as it dwindles
Less and less from day to day to day
[Chorus]
Where did all the water go?
Where did all the water go?
Where did all the water go?
[Outro]
Where once water flowed clear and cold
Green slime clings to mud
The water’s foul, so the waterfowl
Fly off in search of some
Where did all the water go?
Where did all the water go?
Where did all the water go?
Dawn
Daily Doppel
I had to stop by and feed Sil on my way home this afternoon.
kitty Monster keeping an on on me.
Turkey Vulture
Storm clouds produced no rain even though I left my clean car out as bait.
Box huggers: silver and Loki protesting me tearing down boxes to take out to the recycling bin.
Glenda
Uh-oh! Some one set up us some geese!
Ran into coyotes at dusk
Dusk
Twilight
Happy beaver to have some water in the river
Dawn
Daily Doppel
Bumblebee on sunflower
At Costco
Geese appreciate more water in the river also.
Dusk
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.
