When Jake and I left for our walk at 6:45 a.m., the temperature was 25º F (-3.9º C). When we got back home 55 minutes later, the temperature had dropped to 24º F (-4.4º C). We had been getting light frost for the past two weeks. This morning was the first hard frost.
Marble trying to warm herself in the cold sunrise
Our Burning Bush
Jake under half moon at sunset
Spunk lying on my lap in front of the fireplace in the library
Dawn
Jake hoping for a handout
A cluster of cats
Gwendolyn
Loki helping with laundry
Udderly rediculous
Spunk annoyed
Spunk eyes
The first of three of Susan’s roses
Sunset
Crescent moon at dusk
Night Sky
Spunk Art @ 5:00 AM
Mysty dawn
Coyote was doing a weird stretch this morning
We may have awakened him
That felt good!
The cranes are collecting
Silver trying to teach an early morning cat class.
Silver gave up on the cat class, and gave into the summoning sunrise.
Almost sunset
Jake: “Ah, hmm! Hey, paparazzo, when are we going back inside so you can feed me?”
Pre-dawn
Out again at Dawn
Our coyote friends joined in
Conmigo y Jake
Flicker
Sunrise
Loki
Spunk
Jake watching the clouds
Sunset
Pre-dawn
Venus
Tuumbleweeds hardened
Walking levees at twilight
Tickles Jake’s fancy
Dawn
Puddles on the paths
Still dawn
Spunk
Almost sunset
With the rains comes the need to repair the culvert that we use to drive over the drainage ditch. I went into my one-man chain gang mode and filled in the holes caused by the rainwater ponding on the culvert. I paused to take a few photos as the sun was setting.
Sunset
Started the day with some purple rain
Which turned the river red
A dark, rainy day required extra light and a bird
Loki napped during a mid-morning rain shower
Dark, cloudy and rainy all day
I’m not giving you two pennies for your thoughts about il paparazzo, loki and Silver
Mirroring
Belafonte giving il paprazzo the beak
Jake was happy to lick whipped cream off the beater
Silver captivated by The Tale Of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman.
Sunset
Dawn
Pardon me, Spunk. Is that the box that had my new shoes?
Jake being left out in the rain
Sunset
Dawn
I did not see any balloons this morning. I believe it was too windy. It’s been windy all day.
How does the saying go? “A bird in the hand…”
“…is worth two in a fight?”
Tycho Kitty is lying on the floor, contemplating Jake.
German candle powered fan
Spunk Art in blue
Spunk Art unplugged? Or, perhaps, Spunk plugging his art?
Almost to the Harvest Supermoon
Sunset
Jake’s interest in the sunset tonight
Sunrise
Sandias @ 8:57 am
Gwendolyn’s favorite pose of late
“I didn’t do it, Spunk! No! Really! I swear! I did not sneak and eat your food!”
“Yeah! Right, Jako Dawg! You can fool that pesky, pathetic paparazzo with your puppy dog eyes, but you can’t fool me!”
“You believe me, don’t you, paparazzo?”
Sunrise
Loki
Spunk Art
Loki: “Hooray! It’s laundry day!”
Anticipation
Gwendolyn
Ball of Confusion
Sasha tucked in with a towel, trying to stay warm.
Gwendolyn and Glenda
More rain
Sunset looking west
Sunset looking east
Off Center & Not Even 