Jumping Cat

New Painting

I got this painting at a yard sale. The photo isn't that good. I love the colors. Artest has the last name of Hilton but couldn't make out the first initial - either G or maybe a Y.

New Bowl

I got this bowl at a thrift store. I really like, it just called to me, but hubby didn't care for it. It had no markings on it, and wonder if anyone knows anything about cermanic bowls like this.

On the Vine

This was a big watermelon. We guessed it at about 20 pounds. Biggest we ever raised. And it was good. The next photo down is of it cut open.

Watermelon

Dove

Cool Cloud

Sage and Sunflowers

Daisy

Meal Time

Stormy and Trave eating together.

Night Traveler

This is Trave or Tennessee Walking Horse crossed with a Shetland pony.

Storm Shadow

Stormy is our Miniture Horse and Shetland cross.

Jade

Our oldest cat, Jade, having a leasure time on the porch.

Tuffee and Jade

Tuffee and Jade sharing the food bowl. Yes, Jade actually does get a bit now and then.

Buttercup

When I posted another photo of these flowers I said I didn't know what they were so I looked them up and they are a type of buttercup.

Skyrocket Flower

When I posted a simular photo I said I didn't know the name of this flower. I have found out it is called Skyrocket.

Distance Mountains

Looking toward Schoolhouse Mesa in the Jemez Mountains.

In The Rain

This is how it looked when we parked to let the rain let up as it was raining extreamly hard. This is the Jemez Pueblo Visitors Center where we buy fry bread to eat. You can just barely see one of the remadas on the right edge of the photo where they put out their food items and cook the fry bread in big pans of hot greese over wood fires.

The Creek

Lee is standing by the creek that is above Jemez Springs where a lot of fishing is done. I think this is part of San Antonio Creek.

Stream and Flowers

Mountain Meadow

Balancing Rock

Rock Ridge

Mountain Top

Yellow Wild Flower

I don't know the name of this wild flower or the name of the small red one in a previous post.

Red Wild Flowers

When we went to the mountains about a week ago we found these tiny, red wildflowers.

Fenton Lake

Before the Rain

ATV Time

We took the ATV's out the other day after a rain, to see how bad a shape the roads were in. Nothing to bad but a few were washed out some.

Rains and Dirt Roads

This is what happens when we get our rains in New Mexico on our dirt roads. The water flooding down the roads causes lots of erousion and make ruts and ditches in the road and sometimes washs them out to where they are completely impassable until the wind comes, drys out the sand and blows sand back into the damage that was done. Or else man and heavy equipment repair it so it can happen again during the next rain storm.

Clouds Over the Sandia Mountains

Another Bumble

Butterfly

A Bee or What?

My blue knight spiria is blooming heavy and the bees and butterflies love it. I am not sure if this is a bee or a wasp but it sure had pretty blue wings.

Bumble Bee

This bumble bee was sampling the flowers on my vitex bush.

And the Bumble Bee Left

Another Rose

Red Rose

Yellow Rose

Back of Morning Glory

Morning Glory Peek-A-Boo

Morning Glories in the Morning

Morning Glory Take Over

Watermelon

Sunflower

Balloon Flower Bud

This is the bud for the balloon flower. It starts out small, gets bigger and finally springs open like the flower in the following post.

Open Balloon Flower

This is an open balloon flower

Pink Flower

Can't remember what this pink flower is called. It is the only one that came up from two bags of bulbs that I got from The Dollar Tree Store this spring.

Tuffee

Tuffee, my Border Collie is hard to take photos of because she has such a dark face and usually in the photos you can't see her eyes. This day I was able to get some good ones. Maybe because she way laying in the shade of our peach tree.

Legends of America

I found this cool site while doing research for a story I am trying to write. It is called Legends of America and has lots of information about what the US was like in the past. It lists ghost towns, outlaws, lawmen, lost treasures, other historical facts, and interesting trivia. I have listed it on my links for furture reference.

Sunflower

From the back side of the flower. This is the wild verity that we have here on the desert. The finches love to eat the seeds.

And the Mouse Came

If it isn't ants or rain storms it's mice, or rather one mouse. I have been feeding bran mixed in with the grain I feed my horses. I had bought a 50 pound bag of bran not long ago and dumped it in one of the 32 gallon rubber maid trash cans on wheels that I put grain in to keep it safe from the mice and rats that want me to feed them. A few days later I noticed a pile of bran beside the can when I went to feed. I wondered how it got there and after a few minutes of investaging I discovered a hole about an inch in size on the botton of the can. I knew it hadn't been there when I had fed that morning so how had it got there? My first and only suspect was some mice had done it. I hadn't had any in the hay shed for a while but it looked like I did now. I poured the bran into another can and put duct tape over the hole both inside and outside as a tempory fix until I could get another big can. I then set 3 mouse traps around the can and sprinkled bran over each. It worked get as most things I have tried are either so heavy they spring the trap or the mice ignore the bait. That includes the usual cheese and peanut butter. Later that evening I checked and one trap was sprung and turned over but no mouse. Next morning - same thing. Hummmm maybe it was a rat and I needed a bigger trap I though. It had been a rather big hole for a mouse to make. Not having a big rat trap I tryed again and low and behold that evening I had a very dead mouse. I have left the set traps for several more days but no more sprung traps and no more dead mouses.
So the moral of this story is that one little mouse can chew a big hole through tough plastic trash cans when it really wants something. And it seems that bran is well liked by that mouse at least. And bran workes well to bait a mouse trap with.

And the Rains Came

On Saturday evening the rain finally came. We had almost 2 inches in less than an hour and we needed it. We had huge puddles in the yard and horse pens that by Sunday morning had sunk into our dry, thirsty ground. And now the ground is almost dryed out again. The rain can come again if it wants to.
Of course the horses had to roll in the mud and get as muddy as they could. But the plants and trees loved it. Plants always do better after a big rain like that regardless of how much water you give them otherwise even when it is well water like we have.