Miss Ing Link

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

S L S

Pre-dawn. Venus is to the right of Resa’s Tree.

A baby Bullsnake on Snakey Lick Sunday

Pre-dawn. The moon and Jupiter among whipped cream clouds.

Colorful Dawn

Who you callin’ silly?

A Box Turtle I moved off the road.

Daddy Owl

Sunset

Charging

Synchronized update

Life is reduced to charging devices
Damned to eternal update hell
Bitcoin indulgences ring in virtual coffers
But no souls spring from the depths of our self-made electronic purgatory
Enslaved by our devices
Can we ever learn to breathe again?

Half moon at sunset

Sunset

You all’s souls may be trapped in a self-made cyber purgatory, but I’m just beeing. Just sayin’!

Moon strays farther from Mars and Venus.

When A Flycatcher Catches Flies

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

A Change of Scene

Sunrise as seen from the same as it ever was scene.

Tristan’s funky chickens at the Solstice party. Chickens may be fowl, but they know how to party.

Drama in the southern sky.

Orange in the western sky.

Venus and the moon riding a black dragon.

Happy Solstice!

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.

Let Sleeping Cats Lie

Woke Spunk from a Dream
Looked at me with squinted eyes
Let sleeping cats lie

The Strawberry Moon at 98.9% full last night. It will be 99.9% full tonight, but it will rise after 10:00 PM.

Do you see the bees?

Venus setting as the moon rose.

Loki

7 @ 7:07

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.