Coyotes & Cockleburs

We had hard rain on and off this afternoon.

When Jake and I went on our early morning walk, we encountered a pack of three coyotes. We were walking on the lower bank, and the coyotes ran up on top of the levee and watched as we walked by.

As you may know, Jake loves to lift his leg on tumbleweeds. Currently, the tumbleweeds are green and soft; however, Jake discovered cockleburs on the lower bank. While the cockleburs are also still green, they are nice and scratchy.

Jake looking cool in the car

A short reprieve from the rain.

The clouds were gathering again when I left for the store to get cheese for the cats. It started raining hard again. I sat in the car and did Duolingo until the rain let up enough to where I wouldn’t get soaked walking into the store.

My rain gauge recorded 4/10 of an inch of rain this afternoon, bringing us up to nearly an inch of rain for the month of June.

Breaking In A Brown Striped Bag

Crescent Moon and Venus

First dragonfly photo of the season

The spider saw its shadow. Does that mean six more weeks of spring?

Peonies

Spunk Art

Another peony

Sasha: “To break in the brown striped bag, or not break in the brown striped bag? That is the comfy question!”

She couldn’t resist

Marble

Spunk after a long night of killing his tail and ears and making Spunk Art.

A Little Rain

Stormy Monday

We got a little rain

Marble making Loki wait in the cheese line.

Jake: “I pray, oh Lord, that the rain will stop long enough for these nails to take up my leash and lead me to Starbucks for a pupachino!”

Can’t go out a playin’ in the rainin’ so we gotta do a lot of layin’ on the bed and…

Our guard hummingbird is watching out for us despite the rain.

Spunk and Gwendolyn

Silver

Glenda

Glenda again

Spunk having sweet dreams

Primrose Dawn

Dawn

Primrose @ dawn

Photo by Laurie for Susan.

Gangnam Style? I’m not sure why anyone would buy one of these. But then again, I couldn’t resist photographing it and making a gif.

First time I’ve seen the moon this month.

Dusk