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
No Mass
Tag: Rio Grande
Cinco Gatos, Un Perro
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
Five And A Quarter
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.
Four Point Sixty-Nine And Counting
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
Doubled
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.
More Rain
The Rio Grande had more water in it at 5:30 a.m. this morning
I walked my five miles in the rain again this morning. The rain gauge showed 0.61 inches of rain when I left, and 0.70 inches when I got back. It stopped raining as I finished my walk, and the rain gauge still shows 0.70 tonight. I thought the rain coming in from the west would make it to us, but it stopped short of delivering any rain tonight. We got some decent light shots while watching and waiting to see if the storm would rain on us.
Silly Silver
Spunk
Doppel walking by Jake
I see dogs in the clouds
Sunset
The moon showed through for a brief moment
Water was flowing the full width of the river tonight.
Storm moving in from the west
Laurie’s first lightning shot
Although we didn’t get rain from the storm, I got some lightning photos out of it.
Where Did All The Water Go?
Less than a week after the multi-agency effort to release 650 million gallons of water into the Rio Grande as a “scientific experiment… to learn how the water flows through the river…”, all 650 million gallons of water have since flowed past Corrales, and the river is back to where it was last Monday before the water was released last Tuesday. I hope the bureaucrats learned how water flows through the river.
It seemed like a good time to post The Drought, that I wrote, recorded, and made a video asking the question, “Where did all the water go?” The song is raw and rough, in the style of what I call “Dry Metal.” The lyrics are at the end of the post.
Spunk: “I can’t believe all the water’s gone!”
Back to the start of the day.
Cracked clay on one side
Green slime on the other side
Dichotomousness?
Daily Doppel
Sunrise
The Drought
By Timothy Price
[Chorus]
Where did all the water go?
Where did all the water go?
Where did all the water go?
[Verse]
Scorched earth, cracked white clay
Fried in dryness, woe
Drought sucks life’s blood away
Where did all the water go?
[Chorus]
Where did all the water go?
Where did all the water go?
Where did all the water go?
[Verse]
Thirsty plants bow their heads
Pray for rain, the watershed
Parched seeds cry die of thirst
How have we earned this curse?
[Bridge]
Sun shines happiness
We frolic in deceptive rays
Encourages us to foolish ways
Water’s precious, so we say
But we waste it anyway
In denial as it dwindles
Less and less from day to day to day
[Chorus]
Where did all the water go?
Where did all the water go?
Where did all the water go?
[Outro]
Where once water flowed clear and cold
Green slime clings to mud
The water’s foul, so the waterfowl
Fly off in search of some
Where did all the water go?
Where did all the water go?
Where did all the water go?
¡Milagro!
Twilight
Jupiter under Resa’s Wolf Tree again
The Rio Grande at 5:30 a.m. this morning
Doppel loves the pink tarantula
The Rio Grande at 7:30 p.m. this evening. !Milgro! There’s water!
The Conservancy released water from Abiquie Reservoir. Why now? I have no idea. It’s past the growing season, and most of the cottonwoods in the bosque are suffering or bare, possibly dead. The release of water might be due with the agreements between Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico. But it’s too little, too late for the farmers and the trees.
Big Gulps & Lost Soles
Dawn after the flash flood
Snow Egret caught a fish for breakfast
Another lost sole
Big Gulp
A lost soul, perhaps
The dark line on the opposite bank is the flash flood line, about 6 feet (two meters) above the current natural flow of the river.
Turtle tracks
The moon will be full tomorrow night, but we have not seen it the last few nights because of clouds.
Another Dawn
pTerodactyl tracks
A broken back lying on the riverbed at dawn
Spunk
The Other Side
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
