The wind started blowing hard at 8:00 PM last night and didn’t let up until 7:00 PM this evening.
A wave of clouds crashing over the Sandias this evening.
“Hey, Paparazzo! We need the jug topped off!”
“Know you don’t, Silver!”
“Hey! What’s up with you, Loki?”
“Oh Lord, hear my prayer. May Loki do a little choki!”
“Keep looking the other way, Loki!”
“Hahahaha! You got your tongue stuck, Silver?”
Pre-Dawn
Post-Sunrise
Spunk Kitty and Gwendolyn Kitty
Spunk Kitty
Pre-Sunset
Sliver Moon @ Sunset
Post-Sunset (15 minutes after the Sliver Moon @ Sunset)
Night
Dawn
Cranes
Dusk
Pre-dawn
Truth be told, I got distracted by clouds again.
Dawn
February’s Snow Moon is a “Micromoon” this year. It will be at its farthest point from the Earth on the 24th, which will be about 252,225 miles (405,917 Km).
I forgot about the pTerodactyl. What can I say, pTerodactyls happen!
The cranes were flapping their wings while wading in the river.
Sunset
pTerodactyl was still in the ditch in the dark.
Queued up for a spat
Hoppin’ mad
The V-shaped branch makes it look like Mama Owl has a new featherdo.
A little snow on the Crest
Dusk
Dawn
Meet Lenny. The new pup in town and at the office.
Sunset
Black lace trees and black bamboo at dusk
Dusk
Dawn
Mama Owl
Dusk
Venus shines through clouds reflecting city lights in pre-dawn darkness.
Clouds and contrails in the late afternoon.
Clouds breaking up at sunset.
Black lace at dusk
Jupiter shines through clouds reflecting city lights in post-dusk darkness.
Purple dawn with Venus on the right.
Purple Dawn with the Moon in the middle
Orange dusk
Orange dusk through Black lace
Jupiter peeks through deep blue
Moon rising behind clouds
The persistence of “the same as it ever was” is alive and well. Photos of night-time, the moon, planets, dawn, sunset, and dusk prevail. It’s déjà foo† all over again. And again. And again. And again…
Venus at dawn
Moon at dawn
Silver-lined clouds near sunset
Water backed up behind a beaver dam in the Cleatwater ditch
Gigi’s tree with clouds at sunset.
Cranes flying to roost at dusk
†Foo is a metasyntactic variable used to represent an unspecified entity (how I currently identify). It can be used to name entities such as variables, functions, and commands whose exact identity is unimportant and serves only to demonstrate a concept…
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