
Lightning, thunder rolled
Walked five miles in the rain
Rainbow in the end











We got more rain this evening. We have now recieved a total of 0.24 inches of rain for September.

Venus over Resa’s Wolf Tree at dawn
Corn Moon over lightpost at dawn




A wall of rain that never reached us






Lighting was getting close
Loki: “Impresive lightning, Paparazzo. Where’s the storm? Where’s the rain?”
Paparazzo: The storm and rain seems to have Petered out before it got to us.
Loki: “That Peter god, or whoever he is, needs to ‘Man Up’ and start peeing on us!”
Paparazzo: “I love your cat logic, Loki!’

A nice lighting storm passed through this evening. No rain. And I hope no fires.
With encouragement from all of you, I present you with my first book:

The book is an animated GIF. The pages turn slowly. Click on the GIF to enlarge it.

Spunk: “You finally did it! Hoser!”

The calm before the lightning storm.

White Oaks, New Mexico doesn’t need no stinking cathedral or post-bank-style building for worship services. A TUFF SHED® with a steeple does just fine.


A colorful cacti in the churchyard, and a second TUFF SHED® used for fellowship hall.



The Harvest Moon rising last night with Saturn peeking through the clouds on the right. Saturn in the center photo. The Harvest Moon shining through the clouds.



There was lightning to the north last night. Saturn and its moons in plaid. The Harvest moon finally rose above the clouds.

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.