Jemez Visit

 Grandad got all the cool points today! 

My first Motherless Mothers Day

 This time last year, my mother was still alive and living nearby. Eleni was home (I'm pretty sure). This year, no mothers present. Chewie and I moped:

Walking in late winter

 Sometimes Chewie breaks track for me:

Sometimes I break track for Chewie:

Really Belated Birthday

Ana didn't get to make a birthday cake for her mother until now:

 Chocolate with peanut butter frosting! 

Belated Birthdays

Mom, Dad, and I got vaccinated so we finally got to hang out! It had been months and both of their birthdays were missed, so we did a make-up. Dad got his yearly Boston Cream Pie and I made Chicken with Forty Cloves of Garlic.

Solstice Scenes - not the usual!

Yes, the sun came up very late in the day over the very peak of the mountain in our backyard. I've posted plenty of pictures of that. The difference this year is that the darkness of the day is echoed by darkness in the president. It is hopefully just as certain that this darkness will give way to lightness as the days will get brighter. This country needs to be better than what it has become.

Well, politics aside😁😁😁. Here are the latest photos of my isolated life in the Jemez. First is my pic of the conjunction, showing some of the moons of Jupiter, and with some imagination, the rings of saturn causing it to look oval:

And, just because I have never seen a spider in a Christnas tree before:

I hope our glowing little spider has a merry Christmas, but I worry that it is not fly season. You can't see its form because of the light, but he is a very small orange-brown thing.

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2020 Christmas Tree Hunt

 For only $12, you can hunt down and kill your own Christmas tree in the Santa Fe National Forest. Every year we see hundreds of trees tied to the roofs of cars, and in the backs of trucks, getting carried down off the mountains. Here is a picture of the end of our successful hunt this year. Unfortunately, the tree was about a 20 minute carry away from our car (which was only a 2 minute drive from home). John was exhausted.

And here is the tree, stuffed and mounted in our home:

View from our hotspot

Verizon no longer provides mobile data near our home, so we have to drive to another tower. This is the view tonight. 

A New High

A peak that I have never scaled before. Inspired by the first colors of fall. 

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More Cool Raptor pix

New pic: This bit one stayed in the tree quite a while. I waited until the sun hit it to take pictures, but it was too cold to go outside to shoot:

Raptors have not wanted their picture taken lately. This one only stayed still for two pix through the LR window: