Category: Today’s Photo

Last Night’s Photo

First Pitch

First pitch of the second home game of the season. Click for large version.

The ball can be seen — I think — in the air with the tarp behind it, between the umpire and the 3rd baseman. iPhone 5s photo.

Alas, Rainiers 9 Isotopes 7 in a classic high desert pitchers’ duel.

Today’s Photo

Twice a year at sunset, the Sun and the Mittens in Monument Valley line up so the shadow of West Mitten appears on East Mitten. March 27, 2010, was one of those times. This photo was taken a few feet from our campsite. It's better if you click for the larger version.
Twice a year at sunset,the Sun and the Mittens in Monument Valley line up so the shadow of West Mitten appears on East Mitten. March 27, 2010, was one of those times. This photo was taken a few feet from our campsite. It’s better if you click for the larger version.

Yesterday’s Photos

Click either image for much larger (and prettier) versions. Photos taken with iPhone 5s Sunday afternoon.

Looking upriver from about a mile north of Alameda. It's called the Río Bravo del Norte in Mexico, but Rio Grande seems better to fit the usually placid river as it flows through Albuquerque. iPhone 5s photo Sunday afternoon.
Looking upriver from about a mile north of Alameda. It’s called the Río Bravo del Norte in Mexico, but Rio Grande seems better to fit the usually placid river as it flows through Albuquerque.
Not sure what the x-shaped vegetation is in our "we must preserve our natural Bosque" but they haven't bloomed at all yet.
Not sure what the x-shaped vegetation is in our “we must preserve the natural Bosque” but they haven’t bloomed at all yet.

Friday’s Photos

Spent Friday with guests from Denver. Along with Walter White’s house (not pictured) we visited Albuquerque’s sites. Photos below taken at Petroglyph National Monument, the Rio Grande at Alameda Bridge, and the top of the Sandia Peak Tramway. Click for gallery of larger versions and full captions.

The 700 or so year-old glyphs mark the rocks at Boca Negra Canyon, Petroglyph National Monument.
More glyphs.
The Sandia Mountains across Albuquerque’s north side from Petroglyph National Monument.
Watching the Rio flow, from right to left just above the Alameda Bridge.
Winter reveals the Gothic structure of the cottonwoods in the Bosque just above Alameda Bridge.
Sunset from a very cold and very, very windy 10,378 feet.
Looking down the other side of the Sandias from the Sandia Peak Tramway station.
A crescent Moon and the cables that guide — and hold! — the tram cars and their 50 passengers.

Albuquerque’s Snow of the Century

Here’s a slideshow from Albuquerque’s “Snow-of-the-Century” — back before hoaxers started warming the planet — seven years ago today (about 25-26 inches at Casa NewMexiKen). Click for larger versions and slideshow, or scroll over image for caption.

Backyard bench, Friday afternoon.
Backyard bench, early Saturday morning.
The view from my computer.
Not a good day for mimosas in the courtyard.
A view in Sandia Heights, the westernmost Sandia Mountains in the background.
The clouds lift.
Sunset.

Delicate Arch

Delicate Arch

Taken Saturday, September 25, 2010, at sunset at Delicate Arch, Arches National Park.

Delicate Arch is Entrada sandstone. It’s 52 feet high. This vantage point is reached via 1½-mile trail with an elevation change of about 500 feet. There were approximately 200 people there Saturday, all with the courtesy to stay away from the arch during sunset (prime time for photographers). Six-, soon to be seven-, year-old Sofie made the trek with ease. Grandpa made the trek.

Birds

Photos of various wild birds seen in Florida earlier in April. Alas, I don’t know much about birds, so comments particularly welcome.

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Next set, GATORS!

Laughing gull, St. Petersburg
Ibis, St. Petersburg — this bird, though large, disappeared suddenly
Cormorant, Pine Island
Pelican, Pine Island
Yet another
Osprey
Another view of Osprey
Gull at Flamingo, Everglades National Park
Anhinga, Big Cypress Preserve
Anhinga, Shark Valley, Everglades National Park — I was close to alligator without realizing it while taking this
Anhinga, Anhinga Trail, Everglades
Another anhinga, drying its wings

Signs

A few signs from our trip around southern Florida.

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Cougar Crossing
I’m thinking the alligators tried to destroy this sign.
Entrance to National Park
What if the alligators harass us?
Historic site in Key West
Just 2,369 miles to Fort Kent, Maine
Naples loves its sea turtles
Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Colorado anymore.
Flat but not totally flat
There were tarps available if you wanted to cover your car