It was a pretty #sunset tonight. And I’m finally getting used to the sun going down earlier and actually got outside to take a photo.
Hope you’re having a great weekend, too.
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Powered up the lava lamp for the first time since moving to New Mexico this evening. My honey somehow had never seen one live in all her years.
“That’s pretty!” she said. Then she went back to swiffering up the dust from the painters patching our walls.
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In the past couple days, we’ve had some purple flowers appearing. They’re known as a Tahoka Daisy, or the tansyleaf tansyaster. They’re kind of pretty and hardy here. Guess we’ve got another plant that I need to recognize and not kill as a weed.
I wonder if we were out of town when they bloomed last year, or if I just didn’t notice them. Hard to say for sure. Last year, I thought chamisa in bloom was kinda pretty. This year, it’s just a source of allergens.
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After having much of the summer with no birds using the birdhouse (which was built for house finches), a few pairs of western bluebirds have been checking it out. At one point this morning, there were five birds either on or in the birdhouse. I didn’t think any birds would be nesting this time of year, but I don’t know much about the native birds yet.
In any case, I enjoy watching them in the morning, so I’m glad to see them poking around the birdhouse. I’ll probably make two or three more to put up next spring.
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I’ve been working on this image a bit today. I bought an Epson P700 a month or so ago, and have been printing some images for my own enjoyment.
The “Carbon Black” feature in the P700 seems like just the thing to use on an image like this, but one of the things I needed to remember to do was not set the darkest black in the image to 2 or 3, so that you can see the difference between it and the next-darkest black (trying to avoid the blacks blocking up). With the Carbon Black setting, you need to have full range data for it to do its magic.
I don’t have it completely figured out, but I’m getting prints I’m happy enough about to set them aside so I can maybe frame them later. I’m glad I bought the printer, and I’m glad I’m sticking to an iOS-only workflow. It’s (re-) teaching me things I’d forgotten over the years through familiarity.
Next up on the list to relearn: “selective color” so I can punch up the yellow flowers at his feet just a tiny bit.
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Last week, we were out on our morning walk and this raven was in one of our neighbors’ yards, fluffing himself up in the wind.
He didn’t seem to mind that we stopped to watch him.
He even stopped and checked us out briefly.
They’re pretty birds, but plenty hard to photograph. Especially since my camera with the big lens is at home near the hummingbird feeder.
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Didn’t have much of an actual #sunset tonight, but the sky lit up real nice after the sun dropped below the mountains. Happy Monday, #NewMexico!
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My sweetie has been working in the yard this evening. And three times now she’s been interrupted by a passing shower. I don’t think we’ve had a measurable amount of rain between all three of the showers, but each one has settled the dust a little and made the air smell a little better. It’s a nice evening!
Beautiful sunset, too.
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On my morning walk today, I noticed this cholla with its yellow fruits. It was a nice splash of color on a cloudy morning, and something I remember seeing here on some of my first walks after we moved to Santa Fe.
Hard to believe it’s been a year already, but it has. Time flies when you’re having fun!
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Looked out this morning to see this spectacular sky to our northeast. It’s quite a #sunrise. There’s a little hint of smoke left in the sky, but mostly we’re back to our normal #NewMexico skies. Yay!
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