Beauties and the Trees

May 23, 2020May 24, 2020 Timothy Price69 Comments

Resa posted Art Gowns ~ Femme Finale at https://wp.me/p3qQOA-2qQ yesterday. She has used her tree, Holly’s tree, and Marina’s tree in her Princess Blue Holly (PDH) series set in Paris, France. PBH battles Evilomlap to save the Art Gown models from his dastardly evil plans. Resa’s drawings are delightful, and her stories lots of fun. Her Art Gowns are fabulous works of art. The celebrates Resa, Princess Blue Holly, and all the Art Gown models, I’ve posted an aerial photograph that shows where all the trees all the women bloggers have claimed are on our property and the surrounding area. I also included the location of the tree that both owlets are in. Big Baby Owl flew over last night and the two owlets where so happy to be reunited after being apart for almost two weeks.

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The mosaic below shows all the trees that are in the above aerial image. Mouse over the photos of the trees to match them to the aerial map:

1) Resa’s Tree

2) Holly’s Tangle Heart Tree

3) Marina’s Incognito Pear Tree behind Dr Huey

4) Dale’s Peach Tree & Nancy’s Nectarine to the right.

5) Owlets hugging after getting back together in the bosque.

6, 7, 8) Right to left: Lavinia’s, Susan’s and Teagan’s Trees

6, 7, 8) Left to right: Lavinia’s, Susan’s and Teagan’s Trees

9) Gabriela’s Tree

10) Tiffany’s Tree

11) Robin’s Tree

12) Lyn’s Tree

13) Gloria’s Tree

14) Mia’s Tree

Below are a series of roses from our garden. I did not identify the roses.

Silver Striping

May 22, 2020May 22, 2020 Timothy Price57 Comments

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Owl Update

May 21, 2020 Timothy Price96 Comments

0a6a3222 — Do I want to fly over to the bosque with Little Baby?

Big Baby Owl has been in a cottonwood tree between the irrigation ditch and the clearwater ditch for over a week now. Little Baby Owl flew over both ditches into a tree on the edge of the bosque next to Holly’s Tangle Heart Tree. I expected Big Baby to fly over to be with Little Baby last night, but she didn’t. She seems happy in the tree she’s in at the moment.

0a6a3216 — Nah. I really like this tree.

Little Baby Owl is on the tree on the left edge of the photo. He’s very difficult to see.

0a6a3258 — Hey Big Baby! Are you going to fly over here?

0a6a3240 — I’m certainly not talking to the stupid paparazzo on the ditch bank below.

0a6a3230 — Oh! I don’t know. I really like this tree.

0a6a3264 — Or you’re a chicken! He he he!

0a6a3228 — Can you see my “mad dogs” you little runt?

Right after sundown, Mama Owl and Daddy Owl flew up into a tree just north of the owlets. They were perched like they were posing for portraits. Mama is behind Daddy.

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I went out at 6:00 am this morning to see if Big Baby Owl had flown over to the bosque with Little Baby Owl. I found Mama Owl perched next to Little Baby and Big Baby Owl nowhere to be found.

0a6a3320 — Isn’t it a little early for you to be out Paparazzo?

Below is an aerial photo showing where the nest is and where the owls were last night. The owlets are still in the trees indicated on the aerial photo.

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The blockheads at Word Press have introduced a block editor. I was stupid enough to try it. After an hour of attempting to put the post together, I could not get it to come out right at all. I finally trashed it and started from scratch in the standard editor, which took only 15 minutes to complete. I was so disgusted I walked out and talked to Big Baby Owl who is still in her favorite tree before I came back and redid the post. Blocks are for desktop publishing not browsers. If the block editor becomes the default editor, I’ll consider leaving Word Press again.

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Pe Pe Pe Peonies

May 20, 2020 Timothy Price55 Comments

0A6A2593 — This is the Peonie that had so many ladybugs.

Our Peonies are blooming. They get a little burnt around the edges from our intense sunshine, but they still look good.

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Visitor

May 19, 2020 Timothy Price32 Comments

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I had a visitor in the infinite shed of doom.

A Hop, A Skip, and A Jump

May 18, 2020 Timothy Price35 Comments

Little Baby Owl working on getting his wings last night.

Sphingidae — Sphinx Moth

May 16, 2020 Timothy Price44 Comments

A Sphingidae — Spinx Moth, AKA Hummingbird Hawk-Moth, was fluttering around feeding on our Purple Salvia with the bees and the butterflies. I made a short video of it and added one of our recordings of Caña for background music (I’m playing and Laurie’s dancing). The only sound on the original video was the wind.

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Challenges

May 15, 2020May 15, 2020 Timothy Price53 Comments

There seems to be all kinds of challenges in the blogosphere, mostly photo challenges, and writing challenges. Here are a few challenges I recorded.

The first challenge was the song that started out as a drum track that Joel put together. He sent me the track and gave me the challenge to make a song out of it. I laid down a bass track, followed by a rhythm guitar track. I made up a vocal track on the spot, so I have not written down the lyrics, then I laid down the lead guitar track. One take for each track. I named the song Joel’s Beat.

The second challenge was when I was finally able to get my car washed (car washes had been closed under the lockdown). I washed my car and what did I get? Dust and muddy kitty prints all over the lid.

The third challenge was for Big Baby Owl who had flown over to another branch on the cottonwood tree, then decided to climb the trunk of the tree to get up where Mama Owl was perched high above her. Big Baby Owl climbed and climbed, flapped her wings over the more difficult parts, and finally got into a fork in the tree about 10 feet from Mama Owl. She looked up at Mama Owl and Mama Owl flew off. Big Baby Owl was devastated. She just stood in the fork of the tree with her head bowed (click on the photos for an enlarged slide show).

The fourth challenge was photographing black Irises that are bleached purple in our intense sunshine. The irises look almost black to the naked eye, but properly exposed photos show how purple black really is.