Sad

Another 24 hours, and there is still snow on the west face of the Sandias.

Loki and Glenda

Sad news! The Tangle Heart Tree took a tumble.

Snow on the mountains, dry as a bone in the valley, the Tangle Heart Tree that succumbed to the drought in 2011, has fallen over.

Late afternoon

In Coming

Crescent Moon and Venus were in the Tangle Heart Tree tonight.

The above video is of cranes landing on the opposite side of the Rio Grande and then wading into the river at the end of the video. Turn up the volume so you can hear the cranes.

Gwendolyn and Silver

Crescent Moon and Venus in Black Lace Trees.

Alignment of Saturn in the top left (barely visible), Crescent Moon, and Venus in the lower right.

MishMash

Moon high. Venus low in black lace trees.

Jake forever hopeful of getting a handout.

Fancier doggie jail

Silver

Spunk & Gwendolyn

Glenda doing hammock yoga

Halfmoon in swirling clouds

Cranes @ Sunset

Moon in pink

Dusk

Tangle Heart Tree @ Dusk

Halfmoon over Shey’s Tree

Purple into yellow dusk

Another Office Dog

Venus in the Tangle Heart Tree

Meet Athena, the newest member of the office dog family. If this keeps up, we will have more dogs than staff in the office. Athena is a sweet dog. Even Jake likes her, and he generally doesn’t like dogs very much as he believes he’s human (he doesn’t stick his head out the car window like most dogs). Athena has duochromatic eyes. She can give people the stink eye in technicolor.

The cats were extra cheesy this morning.

Marble in a magic wind tunnel.

Interactive Spunk Art

Safe

Pre-dawn

Workers have cleared the underbrush and cut down dead trees in the bosque along the levee. I feared for the Tangle Heart Tree, but alas, there is a live limb on the Tangle Heart Tree, so it is safe for the time being. The area where they have cleared around the trees looks great.

Cranes streaming in pink