Pre-sunset sunset
Father’s Day was low-key. Tristan picked up a Pickle Pizza from Village Pizza. It’s the pizza of the month. It was a “big dill” and very good, also. Laurie made cookies, and we had chocolate “moose.” Tristan gave me a beautiful Bromeliad.
Father’s Day food in the making.
My Father’s Day gift from Tristan. It’s beautiful.
Spunk watching the dog from the safety of the hammock.
Oriental Lily
Sunset
Tiger Lilies in “weighting.”
Zoomed in on sunset
A clear dawn
The Rio Grande and Sandias at sunset last night.
The Rio Grande reflecting
Odd flower out. Echinacea in Brown-Eyed Susans
The moon on the left was taken with my iPhone through a telescope* at 11:00 pm last night. The moon on the right was taken with the Bazooka at 6:00 am this morning. Click on the photos to see the details.
An attempt to get Jupiter and its moons through a telescope with the iPhone*. It came out nicely abstract.
On the left are Jupiter and its moons taken at 11:30 pm last night. On the right are Jupiter and its moons taken at 6:00 am this morning. Both photos were taken with the Bazooka.
Jupiter taken with the Bazooka at 11:30 pm last night. You can almost see the patterns in Jupiter’s clouds.
Jupiter and the moon at 6:00 am this morning.
Saturn is at its peak opposition to the sun tonight. However, a storm rolled in, and the sky is overcast, so I am going to have to strike photographing Saturn tonight.
*I held my iPhone lenses to the eyepiece on the telescope. It’s difficult to align the correct lens and get a really good photo with three lenses on the iPhone. The moon came out pretty well. Jupiter was another matter.
Turquoise nails holds phone
Screen shows cator mortis hold
Fingers phone catch cats
Spunk can’t simply drink milk out of a saucer like other cats. He has to make sure whoever might be working on the computer will notice that he’s drinking milk out of a saucer.
Last week’s daily photos found some nice surprises, especially with the kittens trying their paws at film photography. Photo of the Day, Etc for the week of March 23rd — 29th includes:
March 23rd: The kittens, especially Spunk, get into old-fashioned film photography — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/when-kittens-take-up-photography
March 24th: White tulips — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/yesterday-today
March 25th: Another personal record and a happy kitty — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/02-48-20-on-the-48th-climb
March 26th: Spunk tries paw, tooth and nail at developing film — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/spunk-does-film
March 27th: Morning Angel — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/angel-of-the-morning-angel
March 28th: Smoke and personal records — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/smokin
March 29th: Spunk has positive reviews of his negatives — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/positive-notes-on-negative-development
Laurie’s set up for studying for her Japanese 101 final on Monday.
Rosencrantz stepped on my iPhone that was laying on the counter next to my computer. He activated Siri, which asked him what he wanted. He meowed, and when I looked at the phone Siri had brought up the Wikipedia for cat. I tried to photograph it with Rosencrantz stepping on the phone, but I got too much glare of the phone’s surface, so I had to prop the phone up against my coffee cup. Rosencrantz still wanted to step on it, and stuck around for the photo. Rosencrantz is also a bit of a magical cat as he can apparently go through walls. We’ve let him out and then all of a sudden he’s back in and vice versa. It the second photo I got him half way in and out of the screen.
Off Center & Not Even 