Cats, dog, snakes and us. http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/12/sunrise-sunset-in-between-t-19-days
Tag: rain
The Week: April 27th — May 3rd
Click here —> Photo of the Day, Etc to see the week of April 27th — May 3rd at a glance.
April 27th: Electrical work in the rain — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/who-would-have-thought
April 28th: Roses and Iris — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/fragrant
April 29th: l’orange — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/le-chat-orang
April 30th: Tar Pot & Breakfast Burritos — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/tar-pot-breakfast-burritos
May 1st: Gopher holes, chupacabras and la Llorona — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/5/plugging-gopher-holes-in-the-moonlight
May 2nd: More roses — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/5/fragrant-memories-at-night
May 3rd: On guard — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/5/the-black-guard
Lightning Show
I was talking to an engineer, who is also an avid photographer, about taking lightning photos when I went up to pick up a piece of equipment he had been working on. We were noting that lightning is easy to photograph, but the danger made up for how easy it is to photograph. On may way home at 11:00 pm, there was a nice lightning show over the city, so I pulled off to the side of the road in the rain, set my camera on top of the car to stabilize it (didn’t have a tripod in the car), and took a few lighting photos before I got soaked in the rain. The results are interesting.
Umbrellas
The only umbrellas I own go on my flashes. They work great for dispersing light, but they are not much good for keeping rain off me. I’ve never found a need for a rain repelling umbrella in our arid climate, and, besides, in New Mexico, I believe an umbrella acts more as a lightning rod that a cover to keep you dry. France is another story, you really need to have an umbrella in France, and, fortunately, Sophie lent us umbrellas when we where in Aix, and there was one in the apartment that we rented in Paris.
Urban Camo
Blending in on a rainy day. Aix-en-Provence, May 2013
Spooky Side of Aix
We walked around Aix in the rain all day on May 18th. The wet, gray weather added to the erie starkness of the old Castaño trees lining the edge of a park. Death followed a poor soul through the streets, and the moonlight in the clearing night sky lit an ancient church on our walk home late in the night. Aix-en-Provence, May 18, 2013.
The Cat Before The Storm
I seem to get constant kitty help these days. I walked out of the store to discover a small super cell was forming overhead. I drove straight into the storm and got a great lightning show on the way home. For all the lightning and thunder over the past 24 hours, we only received 2/10 of an inch of rain.
Ladybug
I got up close and personal with a ladybug after going out to check the water level in the Rio Grande at 7:30 am. The river was back to normal with no indication that the water got higher than in was in my photos from yesterday’s blog. I was going to go out and see what the water level in the river was when I woke up at 2:00 am, but it was pouring rain, so I stayed in bed. We got another 3/4 inch of rain over night giving us a total of 9 inches for the year.
The white flower was blooming on the levee in the early morning and the rain drops on the roses where like viewing the world through tiny crystal balls with my macro lens.
Rio on the Rise
We got another 7/8 inch of rain overnight, but there has been heavier rains up north that are causing the Rio Grande to rise. The first photo taken at 6:00 pm on Friday the 13th, shows the river up about 6 feet above where it normally runs this time of year. The following two photos are close to the same view of the Sandias and Rio Grande, but the first one was taken about 5:50 pm on Friday the 13th and the second one was taken in December 2011. I would have like to have had a photo of the river and Sandias from June 2013 when the river was really low, but the bosque was closed, so I wasn’t able to get the river to do photos.
Currently, the river has to rise another 5 feet before it will get into the bosque, and then it would have to rise about 25 to 30 feet before it would go over the levees. I don’t think we have had enough rain for the river to flood our area. I’ll be surprised if it rises enough to get into the bosque, but I’ll check in the morning a see where it is.
Rain Clouds
We’ve had a little over an inch and a half of rain over the past two days giving us a total of 7.60 inches of rain for the year. The clouds between the rains were quite interesting.
