Dawn
Sunrise. The river was up from the rain.
Taboo
The last Dragonfly
Jake giving me a lazy greeting when I got home.
Taboo again
Sun peeking through angry stormclouds
The river running a few feet higher at sunset
A cluck of cranes on the other side of the river because there were no islands to stand on.
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.
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).
Spunk watching Sasha
Spunk mad dogging Sasha
Sunset
Here’s what I saw.
Sunrise
Jake
Loki
Gaurd Hummingbird
Daddy Owl
Sunset
America’s last bloom
Sunrise
Coyote was on a mission
Incoming cranes (click on images to enlarge)
Morning Glory hiding from the frost
Silver, Gwendolyn, Sasha, Sheep, Bunny
America Rose
Freezing temperatures and a higher river level produced more fog this morning.
A more colorful dawn
While Jake and I were out walking in freezing temperatures at daybreak, the cats were still asleep on the bed when we got back before sunrise. They were still sleeping in after sunrise.
Marble says one of many advantages she has over being a dog is that she can sleep in while the dog and stupid paparazzo have to go on a walk in the freezing cold.
Sunset
Sunrise
Sandias @ 8:57 am
Gwendolyn’s favorite pose of late
“I didn’t do it, Spunk! No! Really! I swear! I did not sneak and eat your food!”
“Yeah! Right, Jako Dawg! You can fool that pesky, pathetic paparazzo with your puppy dog eyes, but you can’t fool me!”
“You believe me, don’t you, paparazzo?”
Sunrise
Night Heron
Spunk
Thunderhead @ sunset
