Storm clouds
Wet rose
Burning bush
Taboo
Marina’s Incognito Pear Tree is confused with putting on red leaves for fall and blooming at the same time.
Sunshine and rain at the same time
Spunk
The river running high from the rain
Glenda: “Whoa! That’s a lot of water!”
Rain and shine on the Rio Grande
Doppel: “Lovely light, il Paparazzo! I like looking at it in photos instead of real time in the rain.”
Jake contemplating the rising river
Twilight dawn
Sun contemplating rising up
Sun making a scene
Let the light shine down
Railrunner again
Horse in the hay
A cluck of cranes
Sunset
Silver in a contemplational computation of sunrise
Jake waiting to go on a walk and contemplate the sunset.
Sunset
A touch of red
Cranes flew over
The cat food bag at 5:00 a.m.
The cats got me up at 5:00 a.m. to feed them like they do every morning; however, when I opened the bag to get their food, the bag was empty, except for six kibbles, which was one kibble short of the clowder swarming around my feet. Oops! I forgot to drop by the store on the way home from work last night to get kitty food.
Silver: “Don’t give me any of your cockamamie malarkey about ‘Let them eat tomatoes!’, which is pronounced toemahtoes, BTW, pathetic Paparazzo, because it ain’t going to stinking happen!”
Gwendolyn: “YOU STINKING, PATHETHEIC, LAME BRAINED, PREHISTORIC POPARAZZO!!!! Knuckle dragging, sorry excuse of a silver-haired Sasquatch. You irresponsible, long-haired redneck rascal! I can’t BELIEVE you FORGOT to stop by the store to get us kitty food on your way home from work. It’s been like over 12 hours since we’ve eaten! That’s like 12 years for our kitty stomachs. Now you listen to me, and you listen good, PAPARAZZO!!! You get in your stinking little sports car, and you stinking speed to that stinking store as soon as it opens and get us some STINKING KITTY FOOD! UNDERSTOOD?
Meanwhile, back in bed, I slept in until 6:30 a.m. because it was 27º F (-2.8º C) when the cats got me up at five to fail at feeding them. When Jake and I left for our walk at 7:00 a.m. the temperature had dropped another degree.
Geese in the mist again
Sun streaks in the mist
Sunrise in the mist
After I got back from the store and fed the cats, I worked on winterizing the outdoor kitchen and the irrigation system.
Glenda: “I forgive you, forgetful Paparazzo!”
Content cats
Loki and I sitting in front of the fire doing Duolingo.
Cranes flew by at sunset
A touch of pink
Misty morning
Geese in the mist
Dawn
Cranes at sunset
Sunset
The mass ascension sans mass this morning
I thought I saw a brain
Taboo
Sheep Yoga
Mid-day mountains
Mid-day geese
Loki
Gwendolyn
Glenda
Dusk
Moon and stars at twilight
Sil. Students’ cat I care for when they are out of town.
El Vato posing for “Gato Quarterly”
Jake rolling in the deep
Doppel
Spunk
Silver
Sunset
Panorama of the Rio Grande at twilight
Owl at twilight
Doppel being a cat shark
Sunset
Spunk
Panorama of the Rio Grande at sunset
As of 9:00 p.m. the rain gauge is showing 5.24 inches of rain for September.
Milk chocolate water filling the river at 5:30 a.m.
The rain gauge shows 4.69 inches of rain for the month as I type. There is one more day in September. Will we make it to five inches of rain for the month? The last time Corrales received more than 4.50 inches of rain in a month was July and September 2013. According to the NOAA records, the Corrales gauge recorded its all-time 24-hour precipitation record of 1.78 inches on July 26, 2013.
The owl and I were the only ones out in the rain this morning.
No trace of the moon through the thick clouds.
The Rio Grande was flowing fast and high at 7:00 a.m.
Doppel happy to be inside, out of the rain.
Rain let up for a few minutes around 4:00 p.m.
Sunset
Rio Grande at 5:30 a.m. this morning running about 4 feet higher than the night before.
We got a major thunderstorm at midnight last night that dumped almost 3/4 of an inch of rain. When I got up, the rain gauge showed double the amount of rain from when I went to bed. We now have 1.43 inches of rain for the month. I did another five-mile walk in the rain again this morning.
Clouds on the Sandias at dawn
The Rio Grande at 7:00 a.m. this morning up another 2 or more feet from 5:30 a.m.
The place where I stepped down to take the 5:30 a.m. photo was under water at 7:00 a.m.
Jake met me at the gate and got a short ride to my parking spot when I got home this afternoon.
Taboo Rose
Spunk with Doppel in the background
Doppel
Sunset
The river had gone down about 4 feet by dusk. The place I step down to take photos was no longer underwater, but too muddy to step on, unless you’re a dog.
Water was still flow the full width of the river at dusk.
