Home At Last

Albuquerque Airport: Passengers walk out of the secure area on their way to the baggage claim.

Crescent moon at midnight after being in airports and on airplanes for 20 hours.

Sunrise

Yucca at sunrise

Sasha helping unpack

Spunk helping unpack

Spunk taking a nap with me this afternoon

“You’re supposed to be napping, not snapping!”

Blooming

Sunset

Loki

Wirtshaus Homburger Hof

Dawn

Intersting

Old construction

Adoro i tuoi piedi puzzolenti, Paparazzo!

“Our drinking water is life!”

Lost souls swimming in a fishbowl

Ew! Gross, Freyja! You are supposed to be the goddess of love and sex, not foot fetishes!

Kurbelwellenbrunnen

Themenbrunnen

Sheesh! A Goddess can’t have any olfactory fun with Herr Gestapo-Katze around!

You are such a drama queen, Freyja!

Close to sunset

Sad Day

Sunrise

Laurie called me early this morning because Marble Kitty was having problems breathing. She took her to an emergency vet, and Marble had fluid pressing on her lungs. The vet removed the fluid and Marble had a collpsed lung with a mass in it. A long story short, she didn’t make it. Sadly we lost one of the sweetest kitties.

Between back and forth with Laurie on Marble’s condition, Marina, Socrotis and I went out to buy bread, and then in the afternoon we went to dinner in a restaurant by the sea.

It’s been raining on and off all day, and the area has received “buckets of rain” over the past few months, so the vegetation is green and wildflowers are blooming everywhere.

Dinner

View from the table

Local black cat

Long Legged Buzzard

Assissin Bug

Local frogs

We heard a chirping sound that sounded like a bird, but it was coming from under a concrete slab, and Merlin Bird ID could not identify what it was. Marina looked under the concrete but could see anything. I took photos under the concrete, and after I processed the photo, I found the frog on the right-hand photo with its head sticking up out of the water.

Houses with a great view

Handicap access to the water

This sweet dog came out to greet us

Sunset to the east

Cool lights over the dining room table in the Airbnb I’m staying in down the road from Marina and Socrotis.

Sunny

Sunrise

We have had sunshine the past three days.

Common Wood-Pigeon

Eurasion Blue Tit

Moloney’s Irish Pub & Grill has trivia every Thursday night. My daughter’s team was in first place going into last night’s round.

The pub has dollar bills hanging from the ceiling.

The field was plowed yesterday while we were in Frankenstein.

After trying to photograph more birds, Freyja and I explored a new trail.

Sunset while on our way to pole dance class tonight.

Atlas

Fungus Amongus!

Freyja and I went on a long walk in the forest this morning.

There was lots of fungus among us. I believe these are called polypores.

There are so many trails, it can drive you nuts!

I could hear birds chirping, woodpeckers pecking, and what sounded like an owl, but I couldn’t find a single bird in the forest full of trees.

Our walk

Freyja was worn out

Atlas was putting on the cute, again

We went to an Irish pub own by a fellow from Romania for St. Patrick’s Day dinner.

Speaking of fungus amongus, the band played “Proud Mary” and “La Bamba” as part of their moldy oldies repertoire.

Paddy on bass. Herr Elton John on drums. Herr Traditionell spielen, singen und auf der Gretsch richtig Gas geben.

What was funny about the band is that it brought back memories of when I played in garage bands in the mid to late 70s. Way back then, we had to know three songs to play in clubs, for weddings, and special events: “Proud Mary”, “Brown-Eyed Girl”, and “La Bamba”. We didn’t stick around long enough to see if they played “Brown-Eyed Girl”.

The menu included Irish stew

Roast in wine sauce and mashed potatoes or

Shepherd’s Pie or Lamb Shank

and Apple Pie

Bis morgen! Tschüss!

Bloody Worm Moon Setting

Clouds tried to hold onto the Bloody Worm Moon

But it slipped through the clouds

Dawn

Cloud skullduggery

The river is down. The cranes are out!

Silver

Sunset

What’s the mystery shot of?

Where cranes once foraged
A lone duck stood reflecting in the shallows
Silence pushed against the current
Winter yawned while preparing her bed
Spring stirred under leafy covers
Dreaming colors that wait her awakening

Lead a Horse to Water

Vato Kitty is convalescing at Laurie’s parents’ house after sustaining some serious wounds from fighting.

I showed some riders how to get to the river bed on their horses.

Jake trying to catch a little shade.

“Hey, Paparazzo! What did you do with that roadrunner you shot yesterday?”
“Look out! He’s Right behind you!”

“Talk to the tail! Stupid paparazzo!”

Dragon Tree