5:25 AM
After the rain last night, I headed south on the levee for my early morning walk to avoid the muddy section of the levee on my usual walk northward.
The Intel plant in Rio Rancho through the kissing cottowoods.
Dawn
Bunning in the yard.
Doppel
Afternoon cloud mimicking Resa’s Wolf Tree.
Silver
A little sunset color
The river was a little higher tonight after the rain
5:30 a.m.
Slivery sliver moon
Slivery Moon and Jupiter
Daily Doppel
Spunk
Sliver was a little trashed
A cloud barking at somthing
Loki
Start of a rainbow
Jupiter was hanging out below the sliver moon this morning.
Dawn
Daily Doppel
Sevens, nines, fours, etc.
Sunset
Doppel
Doppel decided he had had enough of the wild and asked to come inside at 3:00 a.m. this morning. We took him to the vet for an examination and testing this afternoon. For the most part, Doppel is healthy. No leukemia or FIV. However, he does have an infection of some kind. The vet called at 9:00 p.m. to tell us Doppel would be ready to be picked up in around 30 minutes.
When we left at 9:15 p.m. to get Doppel, the moon was covered by clouds. When we got to the veterinary clinic at 9:40 p.m., the eclipsing moon was emerging from behind the clouds. When we left at 10:12 PM the moon was at peak eclipse. When we got home, the moon was covered by the clouds again.
The moon behind the clouds at 9:15 p.m.
Eclipse at 9:40 p.m.
Eclipse in stereo at 10:02 p.m.
The peak of the eclipse at 10:12 p.m.
The moon was behind the clouds after we got back home with Doppel.
Early morning sky
Willy Nelson would be “On the road again!” Well! Here I am in a rut again.
Trail under tree or tree over trail?
Moon on the verge of fullness
I see critters in the clouds
Intermission
Dusk
Owl at dusk
Can you spot Venus?
Old gnarly tree at sunrise
Las grandes tetones de Nuevo Mexico
Colibrí al amanecer
Sunset
Toad amongst turquoise
The river rose for a while last night after the rain.
Who is that masked man?
I was inspired to write and record “Sunrise Superman” from my early morning walks with Jake.
Dawn
Sunrise
Jake and I had walked over a mile south of where I took the first photo of dawn before the sun began to rise.
Sunrise Superman
By Timothy Price
[Verse 1]
Sunrise Superman, twilight’s spy
Captures color with bedazzled eyes
In love, he Kisses Dawn’s pink blue skies
Silence broken by cranes’ cracked cries
[Chorus]
Sunrise Superman in love with dawn
Sunrise Superman twilight’s spawn
Sunrise Superman the day is drawn
Kryptonite clouds, they fade, they’re gone
[Verse 2]
Daybreak’s twighlight starts the day
Consumed by dawn along the way
Passes colors, pink, red, and gray
The light of blue has the final say
[Chorus]
Sunrise Superman in love with dawn
Sunrise Superman twilight’s spawn
Sunrise Superman the day is drawn
Kryptonite clouds, they fade, they’re gone
[Bridge]
Light breaks the darkness
Spawns colors bright
Sun peeks from under covers
Yawns big and stretches
Throwing rays far and wide
Into the the deep blue heavens
The Dead go back to bed
While goodness, forms awakens
[Outro]
Sunrise Superman in love with dawn
Sunrise Superman twilight’s spawn
Sunrise Superman the day is drawn
Kryptonite clouds, they fade, they’re gone
Virgas hung from anemic clouds
Teasing parched earth that begged for rain
Moon rose, hung in the trees
Strawberry Moon forever?
Night heron and Snowiy egret reflected in Rio Grande’s water
It’s dwindling into a stream
Stormclouds blushed at sunset
Embarrassed by their precipitous disfunction
Blue Grosbeak and the Cresent Moon
A Swainson’s Hawk was having lunch on a light pole in a Walmart parking lot.
Noon
Tiny toadlets on the riverbed at sunset
Speaking being out to lunch, I’m going to take a long lunch break from blogging. I’m tired, and I have been having so much trouble with WordPress over the past few months, I can’t deal with it anymore, and I have decided I really need to take a break.
Sunset
Venus above Jupiter
Doppel in the dark
Dawn
Dawn at Beaver Point
The river dropped enough that I could wade across the shallow rapids just north of 4th of July Point onto the east side of the river.
A beaver crawled into the shallow rapids soon after I crossed, then disappeared under the water as a coyote watched.
Coyote was checking out something in the grass under the jetties.
View from the east side of the river looking south and west at 4th of July Point.
Wildflowers
The west bank of the river
Drift wood and wildflowers at sunrise
Another view of the west bank of the river
Looking at the South Beach from the east side of the river
North side of the shallow rapids where I waded back to the west side of the river.
The island between the shallow rapids
The jetty sculpture garden at the south end of South Beach.
Back on the west side of the river, looking northeast at the other side of the river I had been walking on.
Looking northeast from 4th of July Point.
Map of my long walk on the riverbed
Clouds rolled in when I got back home.
Spunk
Sunset
Dragon at dusk
