Peace in at dawn after a light rain

Our roses are really blooming. Peace, which in the middle of the property and has been neglected, has put on some nice big blooms. I've included panoramas of a couple different views of the garden to show the rose bushes in bloom.

Fourth of July, Betty Boop, Marmalade Skies, and Apricot Nectar 

Peace wide open at dusk

Looking west at the circle garden

Another Peace bloom at dusk

Dr. Huey in the foreground, the catio in the background

"Take your cat to work day" found Sasha slipping out the back door while chasing a fly and ending up on the ball in the construction site swatting at the fly.

Laurie walking the labyrinth with shaded by her sun umbrella.

Laurie was the more flowery than anything in the first garden we visited on the 2015 Corrales Garden Tour. The garden was mostly grasses, shrubs and trees with a labyrinth, pond with koi, a classic Chevy truck the color of root beer, lizards, hummingbirds hovering around feeders, various sculptures, bird houses and other knick-knacks.  There were a few flowers around the edges, but the "designed" landscaping was dominant.

A fish tail

A root beer float Chevy

Hummingbird waiting for the feeder

Koi and black fish in the pond

Lizard

Bird houses and other knick-knacks

Tyrannosaurus between gardens tempting us with a bouquet of flowers

We went on the Corrales Garden Tour yesterday. The sculptures and artifacts were some of the interesting features.

Dr. Huey on a ladder in the first garden

Ram skull at the second garden

Garden glove sculpture at the third garden

Fairy flautist at the fourth garden

Freaky flying critter at the fourth garden

Face and fountain at the fifth garden

A purrfect fit!

We've had Sasha a week now and she's really made herself at home. A box bottom from a rice cooker is the perfect box for Sasha. She is also engaging the other kitties in play as you can see in the series of her and Najar having a tussle.

If the box fits, make the best of it

The tough girl challenge

Attack and roll

An attempt at the "spinning toe hold"

Spinning toe hold my paw!

Strategizing

A shot from the center

Sometimes I have to get in the center, putting myself on the edge, to get the shot.

Old gate

Gomes behind bars

Hummingbirds in flight and grooming.

Hanging out in a rose bush

Grooming breast feathers

Shaking out the dust

Cleaning a wing

Thinking about taking off

Checking out a rose leaf

Licking something off a leaf

Buzzing the vinca

Photo of a photographer in the alley taken from the 16th floor of the NM Bank & Trust Building

Zagster bikes at 2nd Street between Roma and Lomas

It showed 101º F (38.33º C) on my car's themometer when I left the office at 6:38 pm — Dr. Huey in the heat when I got home

Sasha when she fist arrived Sunday night.

Sasha is now the 7th kitty in our clan. Her former owner could no longer keep her and was going to take her to the pound. We took her in instead.

About 20 minutes after Sasha got out of the kitty carrier

6:00 AM yesterday morning already at play

Sasha catches a glimpse of Spunk watching her play

Continuing her morning play

Reacting to Spunk on her carrier

By the time I got home yesterday evening about 7:00 pm, Sasha and Spunk had started playing. In this sequence, Sasha advances, Spunk bats her back, she does a roll and then slides forward, pushing off the box for an "on the back attack."

Spunk goes for an "on the back attack!"

Juvenile Yellow Bellied Flycatchers allowed me to get up close and personal in the early morning light.