Showing posts for 'Sandias'. Clear search
A Walk in the Snow
December 28, 2018 - Laurie
We got between two and three inches of snow Thursday night, with light snow flurries most of the day today. We...
Read the Full Post »
Cranes, Train & A Full Moon on Winter Solstice
December 21, 2018 - Sunset on solstice at Beaver Point.
Crane Point at dusk a half mile north of Beaver Point.
A mile north of Bea...
Read the Full Post »
First Snow on the 2nd
December 02, 2018 - A nice smile from the red VW Bug.
We got our first snow of the season early this morning. About an inch and a half of...
Read the Full Post »
Thanksgiving Landscapes
November 23, 2018 - Dawn on Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Day was one of those rare days in the Albuquerque area when we had cloud cover and...
Read the Full Post »
Cranes Under Full Moon
November 21, 2018 - The "full" Full Moon doesn't happen until tomorrow, but the moon is 98.6% full tonight, which is close enough for cranes...
Read the Full Post »
Stormy
October 31, 2018 - We had stormy weather that started last night, and we are supposed to have freezing temperatures tonight. We've had ligh...
Read the Full Post »
Bosque in Daylight
October 21, 2018 - We went out for a walk in the bosque this afternoon. Today you can see the colors in daylight.
Read the Full Post »
Cloudy Night Cranes
October 19, 2018 - ƒ/6.3, 1/30, ISO 6400
Low clouds blew through the sky at a fast pace last night, hugging the Sandias as they rolled o...
Read the Full Post »
Saturday at the Balloon Park was Kind of like the Forth of July
October 14, 2018 - Today was the last day of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, and it got rained out; however, Saturday morning...
Read the Full Post »
Reflections from the 1st Day of the 47th Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
October 06, 2018 - The Rio Grande is very low, and reflective.
The 47 th Annual Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta kicked off toda...
Read the Full Post »
Full On Rise
September 25, 2018 - 98% full moon rising Sunday evening. It was too dark to get detail in the moon and detail in the landscape.
Full moon...
Read the Full Post »
Storming on a Friday Night
September 01, 2018 - With my raincoat in one hand and my camera in the other, I walked out under cloudy skies and caught the stormy action th...
Read the Full Post »
More Smoke From Another Distant Fire
August 20, 2018 - Smokey skies from distant fires turned the sun into a large spot above the trees near the horizon last night.
The pin...
Read the Full Post »
Sunset 'n Cats
August 09, 2018 - Spunk: "Oh brother! Not another series of the stupid sunset photos! Don't you have, you know, like cute cat photos?"...
Read the Full Post »
Wild Wild Skies
August 01, 2018 - When I started my walk yesterday afternoon, before I ran into the Mr. pT on the ditch bank, there were thunderheads over...
Read the Full Post »
Pterodactyl Tuesday
July 31, 2018 - I went for a walk in the bosque around 4:30 pm to avoid the evening thunderstorms that have been dumping heavy rain and...
Read the Full Post »
View From The Parking Lot
July 12, 2018 - Monsoon season is underway. I had to stop by the pharmacy on the way home. The afternoon thunderheads were building up o...
Read the Full Post »
Waiting for the Moon
June 28, 2018 - Subtle pinks and purples covered the Sandias while I waited on the beach for the full moon to rise.
Moonrise
A...
Read the Full Post »
We're Cool
June 27, 2018 - Besides occasional smoke banks rolling in and a few thunderheads building up for a short time in the late afternoon, we...
Read the Full Post »
Beaver in Jetties on Bank
June 14, 2018 - Smokey air under stormy skies
You can see an animated GIF of the beaver on the bank at https://photoofthedayetc.wordp...
Read the Full Post »
The Beaver that Fell to Earth
June 04, 2018 - Pink light fading sun
Ducklings scamper jettis safe
Beaver falls to earth
Read the Full Post »
First Blooms and Fuzzy Moon
April 27, 2018 - Lady Banks
Lady banks started blooming late last week. This week, while we were attending the annual spring medieval...
Read the Full Post »
Keeping With Tradition
March 29, 2018 - Water in my irrigation ditch after I cleaned out the cottonwood leaves so the water flowed freely. I cleaned out the dit...
Read the Full Post »
Sunsets Happen
March 24, 2018 - Thirty minutes before sunset, the sky was completely overcast with thick, dark clouds. I started preparing photos I had...
Read the Full Post »
Seven Minutes on the Seventeenth
March 18, 2018 - On the beach at 7:13:19 pm, 03/17/2018. A sliver of dusty pink on the Sandias as the sun started slipping behind the hor...
Read the Full Post »
Crow Show
February 04, 2018 - Crows had gathered in the trees above the path to the beach. They perched, flew, landed, cawed, laughed at us, and carri...
Read the Full Post »
Perspective on the Sandias
January 28, 2018 - Sandias from North Beach at the north end of Corrales.
Read the Full Post »
On the 97th Day...
January 10, 2018 - A puddle from rain after 96 consecutive days without precipitation.
Buzzed by a crane
The landing
Snow on...
Read the Full Post »
Adiós 2017
December 31, 2017 - The last pink of 2017
The last sunset of 2017
The last photo of a beaver swimming of 2017
The last glow o...
Read the Full Post »
Christmas on the Rio
December 25, 2017 - Late afternoon Christmas day 2017 on the Rio Grande at the south end of Corrales, NM, USA.
Had...
Read the Full Post »
A New Trail
December 15, 2017 - A new trail! Where does it lead?
The Rio Grande, of course. View looking to the northeast.
View looking south.
Read the Full Post »
Super Soft
December 02, 2017 - The almost super moon rose over the Sandias behind thin clouds that gave it a soft, fuzzy look. The last of the cranes s...
Read the Full Post »
Sandias in the Mist
November 16, 2017 - Fujifilm X-E1, 27mm ƒ/2.8 pancake lens
I took a detour on my way to work this morning to get a few shots of the Sandi...
Read the Full Post »
Sandhills and Pink
October 29, 2017 - The Sandhill Cranes are back — flying up and down the Rio Grande at sunset every night on the way to their roosting spot...
Read the Full Post »
Pre-Flight Friday
October 06, 2017 - The 2017 Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta officially starts tomorrow, October 7, 2017. However, Friday's pre-fli...
Read the Full Post »
VT
September 14, 2017 - 360º panorama of The Beach on the Rio Grande that I used to create a virtual tour.
One of the photo ventures that I h...
Read the Full Post »
Smile
September 10, 2017 - Interesting treatment of concreting an irrigation ditch around a cottonwood tree.
The irrigation ditch, bosque and Ri...
Read the Full Post »
Smoking Up The Skies
September 05, 2017 - Sunset on Sunday, September 3rd. The smoke is adding color but there was not a thick haze.
We are now getting a lot o...
Read the Full Post »
The Few and the Flatulent
August 31, 2017 - I ran out to the river, then down to the beach to see if I could get the pink on the Sandias from the setting sun. There...
Read the Full Post »
Drained by the Swamp
August 14, 2017 - The swamp cooler gave out this afternoon, so I set out to rebuild it. Two motors, new spider bearings, three trips to Lo...
Read the Full Post »
Taken by the Night
August 02, 2017 - A soft stripe of pink kissed the top of the Sandias at eight-fifteen.
A cloud floats lighted behind a tree laid bar...
Read the Full Post »
Sandias in the Mist
July 31, 2017 - At ten till eight the Sandias were covered by heavy rain as we stood in light rain on the west side of the river.
F...
Read the Full Post »
Walk Under A Sliver Moon
July 25, 2017 - The Sandias, bosque and Rio Grande at dusk.
Twilight afterglow
Sliver moon peeking out from behind black cloud...
Read the Full Post »
Rain & Shine
July 21, 2017 - Standing in the sun
Soaked by the rain
Rainbows double up
Arc over trees
Framing mountains
Sun falls down
Rain dri...
Read the Full Post »
Blue to Gray
July 12, 2017 - Blue sky with clouds building up in the east at 6:30 pm
Dark sky to the west at 8:00 pm
Sun breaks through and...
Read the Full Post »
A Tell Tail Beaver
July 09, 2017 - Beaver slipping into the foliage on the sandbar in the middle of the river.
A walked out to the river shortly before...
Read the Full Post »
It Was A Hot One
June 17, 2017 - The post sunset glow of smoke from a fire in the Jemez northwest of Albuquerque.
The thermometer mounted six feet off...
Read the Full Post »
Stormy Monday
May 29, 2017 - Memorial Day
I walked out to the Rio Grande a 14:25. The weather was partly cloudy and about 80º F.
Clouds wer...
Read the Full Post »
Into the Void
May 17, 2017 - Into the void
Altered reality
Coyote at a discontinuity
Handicapped giant black spider
On point...
Read the Full Post »
Sunrise Splash-n-Dash
May 14, 2017 - I was out at the river at sunrise.
After I walked back from the river, I was hooking up the drip system, when I saw...
Read the Full Post »
19:05:43 — 19:41:50
May 05, 2017 - Muskrat. 19:05:43
Wood Ducks. 19:12:19
Clear ditch. 19:14:01.
Tamarisk. 19:25:18.
Backlit elm. 19:27...
Read the Full Post »
Saturday on the Ditch Bank
April 29, 2017 - Looking south at a volcano in the distance.
Wild poppy
A swallow of some type
Towers in the clouds on the...
Read the Full Post »
Iron Knot
April 28, 2017 - Rain fell hard against the threatening darkness, making craters in the water as we walked to the river. An iron knot som...
Read the Full Post »
Fish, Flowers, Falling into Darkness
April 21, 2017 - Fishes frolicked in the shallows
Splashing spirals colors rippled
Fluid gems against currents swim
Flowers danced in...
Read the Full Post »
Window Cats
April 19, 2017 - Doves on the fence just outside the window teasing Spunk
Sasha outside looking in
The dove's view of Spunk...
Read the Full Post »
The Buzzards and the Hummingbird Moth
April 07, 2017 - Buzzards flew above my head today
Flew so high they kissed the moon
A hummingbird moth buzzed round my feet today
Cur...
Read the Full Post »
Suavecito & Spunk do Sennheiser
April 04, 2017 - Suavecito got a new pair of Sennheiser headphones and thought they were pretty cool. Turned out they are the exact same...
Read the Full Post »
Red Green
March 25, 2017 - The Rio Grande is running high and fast from spring runoff. The muddy water has a lot of red in it from the red soils fo...
Read the Full Post »
First Water
March 23, 2017 - 30 degree free fall
Warm skies turn cold
Blue to gray, gray to white
Hailstorm blinds
Muddy water
Speed slowed a re...
Read the Full Post »
The Beach
March 05, 2017 - Our own "private beach" — just a hop, skip and a jump away.
Read the Full Post »
Stuck in the Middle with Gray
February 27, 2017 - Dawn Sunday morning looked much like the first photo from our property, but we couldn't see the mountains because of low...
Read the Full Post »
A Saturday in a Life
February 18, 2017 - I saw the dawn today oh boy
A ring of fire filled morning sky
Yellows push reds purples into gray
Sunlight fought
Cl...
Read the Full Post »
Surreal Sunrise
February 12, 2017 - I was awakened by colors brewing in the eastern sky. I extracted myself from the furry purrs snuggled in from head to to...
Read the Full Post »
Snow Moon Eclipse
February 10, 2017 - Waiting for the moon to rise, we watched the Sandias as crows flew by.
Crows fly off into the sunset over cranes se...
Read the Full Post »
Color, B&W, Sunset
January 21, 2017 - Rain fell all night, turning from wet to icy to light hail that left a thin covering of white on the ground in the early...
Read the Full Post »
First Snow
January 06, 2017 - Rosencrantz making a triangle in the snow.
Los Reyes Magos and La Befana brought us snow for Epiphany.
A dusting...
Read the Full Post »
Winter Black & White
December 26, 2016 - X marks the spot
Cold winter light
Trees, mountains, towers
Reflections
Black and white
Thin clouds hang
Pull on t...
Read the Full Post »
Sunsets & Super Moons
December 13, 2016 - Patti called last night on her way home to tell me the Sandias were pink and the moon was rising between the mountains a...
Read the Full Post »
Gnarly Trail To Nowhere
December 10, 2016 - I stepped onto a gnarly path to nowhere — like being swallowed by the valley of death, its briars and brambles cut and s...
Read the Full Post »
Super Moon Parking Lot
November 14, 2016 - I hadn't planned on photographing the super moon today. From our house the sky would be too dark to get any detail aroun...
Read the Full Post »
Almost Full
November 12, 2016 - The super moon will be full on Monday; however, the sky will be dark when it rises on Monday. The moon will rise after s...
Read the Full Post »
Vistas & Volcanos in B&W
September 25, 2016 - Views of the Sandias and the volcanos from Petroglyph National Monument.
Read the Full Post »
Crows
February 27, 2016 - I turn to my old friend the Bestiary (Book of Beasts) MS Bodley 764 from the 13th Century for a discussion on crows. Wha...
Read the Full Post »
Sunflower with a Mohawk
January 16, 2016 - While we were out on the river bank waiting for the Sandias to turn pink, which didn't happen, I noticed a sunflower wit...
Read the Full Post »
Snow Daze
January 07, 2016 - Laurie did this photo of the undisturbed snow in the labyrinth I cut in the black bamboo last summer before she took her...
Read the Full Post »
Crows in the Snow T – 4 Days
December 27, 2015 - Crows in the trees during the snow storm.
Sandhill Cranes Getting ready to land in the Rio Grande with snow covered...
Read the Full Post »
The Day Before Christmas T – 8 Days
December 23, 2015 - Twas the morning before Christmas and geese flew through the mist rising off the Rio Grande at sunrise. The Sandias had...
Read the Full Post »
White Mesa T – 14 Days
December 17, 2015 - Looking north up a valley with the Jemez Mountains in the background.
White Mesa is about 45 miles north and west of...
Read the Full Post »
Cranes after Sundown
November 22, 2015 - I was out on the river just before the Sandias turned pink at sunset. A few cranes flew by as the sun set, but most of t...
Read the Full Post »
Calendar Ready
November 05, 2015 - My Xerox rep talked me into entering a photo in their local calendar contest. I went through my old photos and decided t...
Read the Full Post »
Tent Rocks
November 01, 2015 - Tent rocks on the edge of a 7 million year-old deposit of pumice, ash and tuff.
A long, long time ago, 7 million year...
Read the Full Post »
Blood Moon Rising
September 27, 2015 - The air was cool under a crystal clear sky as I stood on the banks of the Rio Grande watching the Sandias fade into dark...
Read the Full Post »
End of Summer Sunset
September 11, 2015 - Looking east at the Sandias through the cottonwoods
Looking east at the bottom, straight up to overhead in the midd...
Read the Full Post »
Kodak took our Kodachrome away
September 01, 2015 - Disney land as it would be put into a slide projector
If you are old enough to remember Kodachrome slide film, you mi...
Read the Full Post »
Rain but no rain
August 21, 2015 - We had one of those very "Middle Rio Grande Valley" days where we had rain all around, but only a few drops fell at our...
Read the Full Post »
Looking East Looking West
August 04, 2015 - Looking east, July 26, 2015 at 8:19 pm
Looking west, July 26, 2015 at 8:20 pm
Read the Full Post »
Walk on the Rio
June 20, 2015 - Yellow wildflowers in the bosque.
The Rio Grande is running high,
I sent my zoom lens in for service, so t...
Read the Full Post »
Cat in the Grass
June 19, 2015 - Rosencrantz in the grass
Storm clouds over the Sandias
Oriental lilies are blooming
Read the Full Post »
Thirty-three Years
May 29, 2015 - We fit right in with the "slow pedestrians".
We celebrated out 33rd wedding anniversary on Friday by riding the Sandi...
Read the Full Post »
Drivers on the Storm
May 21, 2015 - The clouds were spilling over the Sandias again on my way to the dentist at 8:00 am. On the way home at 7:00 pm, the clo...
Read the Full Post »
Going Out Coming Back
May 12, 2015 - 8:30 AM driving to work
7:30 PM driving home
Read the Full Post »
Moonrise, Lola and the Neon Tulip
April 02, 2015 - I raced home with Lola and drove up just in time to get the moon coming up behind the towers on the Sandias. Lola? You a...
Read the Full Post »
Different Views
March 17, 2015 - Views of the Sandias from north of Corrales at Algodones and Placitas.
Read the Full Post »
Stormy Morning
February 24, 2015 - Storming morning with a nice interaction between the clouds and sun.
Read the Full Post »