Starting off September with 100th of an inch of rain that left rings around the moon.
Pre-dawn color
Another old, broken cottonwood
Doppel doing his “Gentleman’s Kitty Quarterly” poses. He’s one cool cat!
Late afternoon
Do you see faces in the clouds?
Jake
Sunset
Daddy Owl at dusk
Tried to capture the bats buzzing me, but they flew too fast to show up in the dusk photo.
Twilght
Dawn
Sunrise
Chopper. Not sure it’s an Easy Rider!
Afternoon
Sunset captured by Laurie
Rainstorm to the southeast at dusk
Lightning from the storm
No rain where we are
Jupiter under Resa’s Wolf Tree’s chin
Colorful dawn
I woke up Doppel. He’s happy to be inside.
Eye of Loki
Assassin bug
Veteran’s Honor
Spunk
Dusk
Pre-dawn
Morning moon
Doppel sleeping on Laurie at 5:00 a.m.
Rio Grande and Sandias at dawn
Another broken cottonwood
Jake
Doppel happy to be safe and secure inside.
A little color at sunset
Dusk
Baby Bullsnake at dusk
Daddy Owl
Spidery cloud at dusk
Venus
Doppel loves to snuggle
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?
Watching distant rain
Lightning flashes all around
But rain won’t fall here
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
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
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
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.
