
Sunset last night.

Clear dawn this morning.

Sunflowers are blooming.


Supermoon on a clear night last night.

Got lighting? There was six beaver in the river at Beaver Point tonight.












Jupiter’s moons were in a formation I had not seen before. When I looked at the image on my camera’s screen at 5:00 am I thought I was moving the camera and getting a double image of the moons, but since Jupiter is round, the moons were really sitting side by side.


The moon through a thin layer of clouds.


Dawn’s pinks and purples
Wait for Sun to show its face
Daybreak colors pale


What happened to eggs
Ditch is dry brutal drought’s woes
We will never know


From flatulent frogs
Bubbles rise ripple water
Laughing in the lake




Bullfrog watches me
From a puddle drying up
Ditch has done gone dry




It is so like men
Breaking wind water bubbles
pulled a frog’s finger



Trees form a green crown
Against the sunset’s orange grays
Another day gone



Dawn


NE view of the Rio Grande on Wednesday evening. NE view of the Rio Grande this morning.


SE view of the Rio Grande on Wednesday evening. SE view of the Rio Grande this morning.

A beaver up and out at dawn.

Bunning through the fence.



Shots of the Bunny

pTerodactyl at dawn.






Spunk is a Cat Tree hugger.

We got a really violent thunderstorm this afternoon. The wind was strong, driving the rain sideways, and the visibility was low. The weather station recorded the event as producing 0.95 inches of rain. The wind-driven rain got almost everything on the deck wet.


The clouds right after the thunderstorm. Views looking east and west.



The clouds at 7:30 pm. Views looking east and west.


8:11 pm (official sunset). Views looking east and west.

Dawn

A hard heart in sun-baked clay

Low flow with Sandias in the background. The river normally flows at the top of the bank I’m standing on. The bank is about four feet higher than the water right now.

A rare view looking north from the middle of the Rio Grande. The river is low enough that I walked around the corner in the top left of the above photo. Normally, the only way to get this view would be from a floatation device or to swim out to the middle of the river because the water is normally from bank to bank at this point.

Sunset last night.


Spunk Rock!

Stormclouds building up threatening to rain. I hope it’s more than just a threat.

The Rio Grande is running lower and lower every day.


A cloudburst where rain never reaches the ground.


The corn should be tall and full of ears of corn by now. Wagner’s Farm usually has a bustling farm store this time of year. There is no sign of activity, no signs advertising available produce.

Hot As Hell
Hot as hell today
One-seventeen in the sun
Sweated like a pig

Sunset



He thought he was off to school to be tutored
But off to the vet, he went, to get neutered
Now he’s sad, half the dog he used to be
They put on a cone, adding insult to injury
When Buddy recovers from this trauma
They will fix his third eyelid and end that drama
He will be a new dog, like a new day
Oh Buddy you have come a long way


Morning moons



Surprise! Daddy Owl dropped in for a visit.



Daddy Owl eyeing the hummer perched on the branch below him.