Crescent Moon and Venus
First dragonfly photo of the season
The spider saw its shadow. Does that mean six more weeks of spring?
Peonies
Spunk Art
Another peony
Sasha: “To break in the brown striped bag, or not break in the brown striped bag? That is the comfy question!”
She couldn’t resist
Marble
Spunk after a long night of killing his tail and ears and making Spunk Art.
The sound of rain when the sun is shining with Spunk and Silver in the cat tree?
Spunk?
Spider?
Some Rose
All of the above?
High winds from this storm last night broke a huge branch off Teagan’s tree, pulled the lower powerline to within inches of our fence, and the lines started arching in the trees. My neighbor alerted me of the problem early this morning. Fire department staff stood out and watched the cottonwoods south of the broken branch catching fire and going out from the arcing powerline into late afternoon before the tree trimmers showed up to cut the tree back.
The branch is on the right. It’s hard to see between the irrigation ditch and our fence in the bamboo. The branch is about 12 inches (30.48 cm) thick.
A zipper spider blocked one of the deck doors last night. She had packed up and moved on when I checked on her this morning.
Closeup of a zipper spider between Iceberg Rose and the corner of the deck.
Bromiliad
Mid-morning
Skinny Mantis
Spunk grooming Marble
Sunset
Spun a wall in silk
Waits in anticipation
Glass of wine is safe
Zippy Zipper Zpider
What’s all the screaming and big bug eyes about, Harriette?
“It it it’s a a a Sp sp sp SPIDER! EEEeeeK!”
It’s only a tiny little spider.
“No. Look and it up there in the corner being all huge a scary! EEEeeek!”
I think you are overreacting, Harriette.
“Overreacting my hairy leg! That is one big, scary spider! EEEeeek! And double EeEeEeeeEK!”
Arachnid on primary colors.
Magenta
Yellow
Cyan
Technicolor
White spider in asphalt space
Forever longing for the tree
Shelter from unforgiving sun
Escape from infinite tires
There is consolation
From the screeches
When unobservant souls discover
They stepped on a spider
Wealhþeow our sweet Black Widow
Wealhþeow sends greetings
Happy Solstice Yuletide songs
Hanging in the green
Spiders sit on pink
Waiting unsuspecting prey
Petals soft with silk
Sunset orange glows
On clouds stretching yawn good night
Darkness doffs the day
Green Eyed Lady. Lovely Lady.
Clouds spilling over the crest of the Sandias.
Gary Grasshopper listening to a course on the New Testament while riding to and from work with me.
The Beetle is singing “I love you! Yah! Yah! Yah!”
View from the Rio Grande looking south.
Our lovely green eyed lady again.
A Crab Spider caught a Pearl Crescent butterfly.
Gary Grasshopper enjoying being ran through the gears
The sunset looking east.
The sun trying to break through the clouds in the west.
Off Center & Not Even 