Spunk sees something dark fluttering around in the distance.

After cleaning the grasses I chopped, and digging the gopher mounds out of the irrigation ditches, I walked by the blooming plum tree and noticed a couple of butterflies. It didn't take long for the kitties to become interested in me photographing the plum tree. Spunk, Marble and Loki gathered around, and it took only a moment for both Spunk and Marble to see the butterflies and start climbing the tree trying to get them. Loki was not interested in silly butterflies. At first the butterflies flew off, but since the plum is the only tree in bloom they were soon back, ignoring the cats. I think even their little insect brains figured out that the kitties couldn't get to them, and the stupid paparazzo was obviously no threat. So I snapped away, Spunk and Marble climbed around in the branches trying to get to the butterflies, while the butterflies flew from one blossom to the next as if the three of us didn't exist.

"Hmmm! How can I get to those two?"

"Oh! Oh! Oh! They are sooo close."

The butterflies stayed out on the ends of the branches with the cats prowling in the tree, which made it easier for me to photograph them. There were also a few bees working the blossoms, as well.

Marble

Sasha

Loki

Silver

Spunk

One of Lowe's trucks had an electrical fire and got burned out.

Early blooming tulips are coming up and our five-on-one plum tree bloomed yesterday. We had sunshine and 72º F (22.2º C) yesterday, but today we've had cloud cover all day, temperatures barely reaching 45º F (7.2º C), and a cold drizzling rain that started in the afternoon that has persisted into the evening hours. So far we have received only 6/100 of an inch of precipitation from the hours long drizzle.

Silver demonstrating how to have fun while hammocking.

Working in the yard inspired me to get out my macro lens and photograph some of the dry "winter interest" before cutting it down in preparation for irrigating when the ditches come on line later this month. We have had particularly dry air in New Mexico this week with humidity in the single digits down to 6%.

crow wave picture

From the Off Center & Not Even Ministry of Made-up & Silly Physics, a crow-magnon is a quasi-crow-particle of collective crow excitation forming the crow's electron spin into a crystal crow lattice. Often found in a disturbed state, the equivalent crow wave picture gives us a quantum crow mechanics from which a crow-magnon can be viewed as a quantized crow spin wave. Crow-magnons carry varied amounts of crow energy that result in crow lattice momentum, which often turn into spin-1 crow, indicating they obey no rules and usually result in silly crow behavior.

collective crow excitation

crystal crow lattice

quantum crow mechanics

spin-1 crow

quasi-crow-particle

quantized crow spin wave

crow lattice momentum

crow's electron spin

Another activity at the car show was face painting. The newly transformed kitty's father asked me to photograph her. So I snapped a few photos as I was walking by and handed him my business card. I was impressed with the quality of the face painting.

Gata bonita