
10:30 pm last night.

5:30 am this morning. Can you find Jupiter?






Spunk lying in the summer heat thinking about the Lovin’ Spoonful’s song Summer In The City.

Resa’s Tree making a summertime fashion statement with a three-cornered cloud hat. We started discussing three-cornered hats and Manuel de Falla’s opera El sombrero de tres picos. I told Resa’s tree that she might have been a tiny twig when Falla wrote El sombrero de tres picos in 1916-17.
If you have 40 minutes, the above video is a fun performance of El sombrero de tres picos.

The sun making another scene before going to bed.

The Rio Grande is down about four feet, exposing a carved-up beach.

A black and white bovine at sunset.

While I was checking the status of irrigation water under the peach tree, this hummingbird was en garde, buzzing me, hoovering in my face, and perching less than an arm’s length away to keep a close eye on me. I get this strange feeling there might be a nest in the peach tree.

Sunrise
Sunrise looking south. The clouds were mimicking Marina’s Incognito Pear Tree.

Question Mark Butterfly (Polygonia interrogations).

It looks leafy


4:30 this morning, looking east. The Pleiades is on the left. Jupiter is in the center.

4:30 this morning, looking south. Saturn is at the top center.

4:30 this morning, looking north. Lots of stars.

4:30 this morning, looking west.

4:30 this morning, looking straight up.

Sunset

Sunset