I haven't posted since March because I can no longer load pictures to the blog using Picasa.

So I guess this is it. Unless I find a way around Google and all the
"sharing" I won't be back. Love you all. (The above was previously posted.)

The moon was a ghostly galleon

tossed upon cloudy seas...

The sky today

Funny little clouds all in a row this morning

and a lovely moonrise this evening

Cranes headed south at sunrise

In the sky over my house

this afternoon

Crows harassing a hawk

Flowers inside

They are asking me when I will go to Hawaii...

and who will go with me.

Fullish Moon

caught in the branches of my neighbor's tree.

My best best boy

is gone.

Departed 31 Dec 2011 between 7 and 7:30 am.

He was my friend and companion for 17 years.

I miss him terribly.

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