Venus and stars at dawn
Sirius at the bottom left. Jupiter at the top right at dawn.
Stars through thin clouds at 10:30 PM.
Day Breaker Rose
A Hawk was “riding the storm out” on top of a tree while I was “outriding the storm” on my Black Beauty Bosque bike.
Sunset
The Moon, the Pleiades, and Jupiter are across the top of the photo early this morning.
Sunflowers at Dawn
Venus at Dawn
Gino called me first thing this morning to see if I could go out and film Mr. Williams operating a large Link-Belt crane that few people in the city know how to operate at a construction site on Albuquerque’s west side. I drove over and took video and photographs for a couple of hours and compressed the video footage into a three-and-a-half-minute video of Mr. Williams hoisting trusses up onto the roof of the building under construction. The framing contractor is Nelson Framing. Jerry Nelson, the owner, and Gino have worked together on many projects. The building contractor is Bradbury Stamm Construction. The Superintendent of the construction site was kind enough to lend me a hard hat and vest to wear. Nelson’s staff working with Mr. Williams on the ground and on the roof came over and introduced themselves before they started hoisting trusses.
Miss Ing Link, the large Link-Belt Crane set up in the middle of the building project.
The 3 1/2-minute crane video with music
Il paparazzo delle costruzioni
I went outside to check out Dawn this morning. She was colorful and quite lovely.
Jupiter was high in the sky, bright and shining.
Then it dawned on me that I should add some of my vintage cameras to my Mac Museum at the office.
10:30 pm last night.
5:30 am this morning. Can you find Jupiter?
Venus, Mars, stars, and the Moon aligned last night from lower right to upper left.
The key to the night sky last night from LiveSky.com.
How many flies do flycatchers catch when flycatchers are catching flies? That is a good 17-syllable question. However, I couldn’t get a Timku out of the question as it is phrased. I made a couple of gifs and wrote and recorded a silly song to go with the gifs, and made a music video instead of a Timku.
This lizard ran up ahead of me and stopped in a sliver of shade and looked at me. When it saw its reflection in the Bazooka, it came back toward me to challenge the lizard in the lens. I had to back up because it got too close for me to focus. It did push-ups for the challenge.
Blue Grosbeak
Bunny in the bosque
New Mexico whiptail lizard
Sparrows
Bullfrog hanging in the current
Turtle
Turkey Vulture
Sunrise
Dragonfly
Oriental Lily
Peace
Ladybug on a daisy.
Native Bee on a daisy.
Green polka dot beetle on a daisy.
Moon, Mars, and Venus are at the lower right.
Spunk: “Bah, Solstice humbug! The stinking day lasts too stinking long on stinking Solstice!”
Venus and the sliver moon at dust again.
Night sky looking east.
Sol the orange and black striped beetle: “I love Solstice and having a long day to lounge in the daisies!”
Night sky looking west.
Night sky looking north.
Night Sky Looking south.
We had a cat 7 on the bed this morning. Having all seven cats on the bed at the same time is an extremely rare event. The cats from left to right: Glenda, Silver, Loki, Gwendolyn, Marble, Sasha, and Spunk.
I stayed in bed for an hour after I woke up. I wanted to let mostly sleeping cats lie. It was cold as hell inside and even colder outside when I got out of bed and checked the temperatures at 7:07 AM. It was probably a few degrees colder outside at 6:00 AM when I woke up. It was obviously cold enough that all the cats felt the need to be in bed with us.
The moon shining on Venus.
The cloud looked a little fishy.
Off Center & Not Even 