THAT day got away from me!
The Pink Fluorescent Neon Sky
It was like being inside of a giant neon tube, glowing everywhere with a bright, pink, fluorescent sheen.
With a six-day old Moon a bright white crescent up there – no pink tint for it!
The iPhone camera is good, but it can’t quite capture the depth of color that the eye saw!
It never gets old!
ALWAYS take a peek out around sunset!
Filed under Photography, Sunsets
Pictures From Our Shooting Instructor
When Ronnie (a.k.a. The Long-Suffering Wife) and I took a handgun safety course and then went out to the range to go shooting two weeks ago, I took pictures of her, but she didn’t take any of me. But our shooting instructor did!
Thanks, Diane!
I almost looked like I knew what I was doing!
Filed under Paul, Photography
Proof Of Life – August 16th
It’s not a current photo, but from March when my birthday was. It just popped up while I was cleaning up photo files on my phone today, transferred over from Ronnie after she took it at the Sunday morning farmers market. It was bright, I was squinty.
If I don’t put on sunglasses, my face will eventually freeze that way. Some might argue that it already has…
Good thing I can rely on my wit and charm and cheerful nature instead of my good looks!
Filed under Paul, Photography
I Don’t Think I Even Want To Know
When I got up this morning I noticed that something had pulled up a big strip of astrotruf in the back yard and peeled it back.
What would or could do that? The wind? Unlikely. A squirrel? One of the entrances to their hidey-hole under the pergola is right there, but I don’t see them as being big enough to pull that turf loose and lift it.
Some larger predator (like a coyote) chasing after a squirrel? Maybe, but I don’t see any signs of a lot of digging around the squirrel hole.
I think the key might be all of that loose bird seed that had accumulated under that strip. The feeders are right above and there was a surprising amount of seed under the strip. Which makes me think that there might have been something like a raccoon pulling up the turf to get at all of that seed.
There is a security camera back there, and I can see where the flap shows up at 07:45 this morning, but I can’t see what’s causing it. The actual area where the flap is being pulled up is blocked by my telescope, which is sitting out on the porch with a big cover over it for protection.
Another mystery that’s just going to have to go unsolved!
Filed under Forever Home, Photography
Fighting The Hydra
Cut off one head (i.e., hit one deadline, finish one task) and there are two more being regrown (finishing the anology is left as an exercise for the student).
So take a minute or two to look at the clouds, say hello to the neighbors, walk down to the community mailbox at the corner (still weird to me that we don’t have an individual mailbox at the end of the driveway), get buzzed by the hummingbirds.
With advancing years I find that I truly do not have any fucks to give about certain things – strangers’ opinions of me, for example – but I find it annoying that there are so many things I do still give a fuck about. Doing a good job even though my career is winding down and nearing its end, worrying about the evil that’s taking over out country, wondering if the Angels are ever again going to have a winning season, waiting for the Chiefs’ bounceback season this year and Season Four of “Ted Lasso.”
I’m juggling as fast as I can. And trying to find time every day to see if there are any pretty clouds overhead. (There were.)
Filed under Paul, Photography, Politics, Weather
Sky On Fire Sunset Panoramas
Damn, if the sky didn’t do it again this evening! Thank goodness the iPhone has a very easy and nice “panorama” mode built in!
Click on either image for some huge, ginormous, wide wonderfulness!
Filed under Panorama, Photography, Sunsets
Proof Of Life – August 12th
Some nights (not tonight, but still…) you just need a plate full of grilled cheese sandwiches
I have years of practice making them “GOLDEN“, not soft and mushy, but not burned. It’s an art.
I have passed this sacred knowledge on to my progeny. All three of them can perform the sacred rituals and turn bread, cheese, and butter into golden ambrosia.
God, I need some sleep…
Filed under Paul, Photography, Silly Shit
Hail – But Not Here
The blaring alert on the TV while I was watching the Angels’ pre-game show said there was a flash flood warning combined with quarter-sized hail. Near us? Sort of, but “close” only counts in horshoes, hand grenades, and tactical thermonuclear weapons.
A quick look at the weather radar showed a bunch of large cells popping up, with the really nasty stuff over toward the California / Nevada lines along I-15 on the way to Las Vegas. But there was some pretty good activity about eight miles away, over by where the shooting range is that we visited two weeks ago.
It would be cool to get some big storm cell building up over us, I do love a good thunderstorm. But so far, it’s been hit or miss, primarily “miss.”
Life in the high desert during monsoon season! Gotta love it!
Filed under Forever Home, Photography, Weather
There’s Always One!
It’s early August, the height of summer, pushing triple digits every day. The maple tree in the front yard is glorious and full and green.
Except…
There’s one single stinking leaf that has to get out of the gates early, clearly “offsides,” jumping the gun and showing off at least two months early.
“Look at me! Look at me! I’m a rouge, renegade, crimson red maple leaf in SoCal, where there shouldn’t be any maple trees to begin with!”
Give ’em Hell, Festus!
Filed under Flowers, Forever Home, Photography
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 