Doppel And The Lunar Eclipse

August 27, 2026 Timothy Price33 Comments

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.

In A Rut Again

August 25, 2026 Timothy Price26 Comments

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?

Las Grandes Tetones de Nuevo Mexico

August 23, 2026 Timothy Price25 Comments

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?

Sunrise Superman

August 1, 2026August 1, 2026 Timothy Price37 Comments

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

Rain But No Rain

June 30, 2026 Timothy Price42 Comments

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

Out To Lunch At Walmart

June 11, 2026 Timothy Price67 Comments

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

The Other Side

June 9, 2026June 10, 2026 Timothy Price33 Comments

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

On The Fly

June 6, 2026June 6, 2026 Timothy Price19 Comments

Harry

Sunrise @ Beaver Point

Sunrise @ The Beach

Flycatcher on a plateau

Sunrise from an island north of The Beach.

The Rio Grande is slowly drying up. I was able to wade across the shallow point above and walk out onto an island north of the beach.

I spotted a Spotted Sandpiper

Snowy Egret flew by

Tres Globos Amigos

Wildflower

Loki on the fly

Jake outdoors

Jake indoors

Cheez Please! Who goes there?

Veterans Honor

Spunk having a cat nap

Sunset

New perspective from another island that became available.

Sharks splashing in the shallows

Dusk

Do You See What I see

June 4, 2026 Timothy Price34 Comments

Sunrise

The persistence of pareidolia. Left to right: Wolf’s head. Three faces above the wolf’s head. Head and shoulders of a bear lying on its back. Kitty in the sky. A person looking down on from the top. A long-eared hound running over a fox that’s lying on its back over Resa’s Wolf Tree, and a pig in the lower right (see my key at the end of the post).