Total Lunar Eclipse

This is as much as I got to see.
Totality occurred after moonset here.

Icicles on Tuesday

Tonight the called-for low is four (4!) degrees Fahrenheit.
Too cold for me, but great for icicles.

Goldfinch in the Maximillian sunflowers

Snowed out Monday, though little to no snow in Albuquerque.
Watched this little fellow working the seedheads over thoroughly.



These wonderful flowers keep giving even after blooming.

That big ol' moon

There'll be lots of light tonight.

Here's the moon with a little more zoom.

Good cat, bad cat

His own winsome self at the garden gate

and wicked little Sammy, destroying the upholstery

More cranes

Taken at sunset -- that's why they have that rosy glow.

The day it got really cold

This is what the sky looked like. I was outside wrapping pipes.

Fall colors

Virginia creeper puts on a show.

Backyard Mirage

Rosa woodsii reflected in one of the birdbaths

Where those cranes were headed

They wanted to join the geese upriver, no doubt.

So many geese, so many cranes.

k.d. lang in Santa Fe

Friday night, Oct 14, 2011

Pay Dirt! was the song.

Frost on the Accord

little empires of ice crystals

and, for a different perspective, snow on the mountains

Rain in New Mexico

A lonely hummingbird took shelter under the eaves.

Coral flower and the clouds bringing rain...

and later on, the first crane sighting. They were headed north, upriver.

Over at Jean's place...

Goldfinches on the thistle feeder

a straggler in the vitex

and Fall's bounty!

Double Rainbow!!

A Pleasant Afternoon

Solo nasturtiam with morning glory and virginia creeper leaves

the Autumn Glory sedum that clings to life

my glorious Big White Cat

and yay, Anna came to visit before she left for England!

End of dissolution and blessing

and there's joy in it

A very good way to spend a Sunday afternoon

more mandala dissolution

Sectioning

Sweeping up

Invocation

Hats off

Mandala dissolution

Packing up after completion



Fait accompli

Beginning the dissolution, ground level

Calling the divinity down into the mandala

Monks making a mandala

in honor of Green Tara...



Cool guys, very focused, happy/joyful?

Materials:

Inspiration

Hummingbirds in the back yard

This is the view I have most frequently -- hummingbird butt.

Here's the ferocious little rufous glaring at others who would dare approach his feeder.

Himself again.

A dragonfly who expired in situ.