The turkeys were back, there is one tiny one that is about half the size of the other babies but I wasn’t able to catch a photo of it.

We have a circus rose that we thought had died then it came back last year but didn’t flower now this year it had this red bloom that is clearly not a circus rose so the root must have been what survived and the circus was on the root stock of a simple red rose.  That is ok with us we like red roses too.

Close up of the lily

One group of daisies was kind of beat up and eaten so this little guy may be the culprit.

When I was out back there were a couple little hummers by the feeder, my camera can focus fast enough to catch them in the air, but they decided to sit a spell today.

Elaine, the last of our Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, followed me into the yard today.  She is 13, and three of the others died at 13, her mother, her brother and her sister.  13 is old for this breed, so there may not be much time left to capture her image.

When we got up this morning our little Anna had passed away.  She hasn’t been sick and she was only 7 years old so we don’t know what happened

Here  is a small scanned pic from when she was a kitty

Here she was a few months old

some of my favorites from the last couple years here in Colorado

Her favorite activity rolling in dirt LOL

In march so happy that the snow was gone

A few days ago I took a few pictures of her but she seemed annoyed at my efforts the only one where she looked at the camera is in a post from last week and this is one of her annoyed trying to avoid the camera.

she LOVED living in the Colorado mountains and was a happy cat, it’s sad to see her go so young, but at least she wasn’t sick and suffering.

These funny little flowers bloom on the hillside of Cat Creek Road.  We had to go to Farmington NM on Tuesday to have work done on the car, on the way out I noticed these white blooms I had forgotten about them from last year or the year before.  They bloom early in the morning and by afternoon they are dead and they only bloom one day!  There were dead pink ones that must have bloomed the previous morning.  They have neat heart shaped petals.

Thursday Morning I peaked out and it was snowing like crazy not a typical June 5th!  As you can see it really didn’t stick, but still, enough already

The next morning the weather was back to “normal”  LOL and Pagosa Peak was peaking about the hill from the bottom of Cat Creek Rd.

Annapurna wasn’t stopped by Thursday’s snow  she was annoyed at me trying to get her photo though

The first daisy showed up outside my bedroom window I put out a bunch of wildflower seeds, but with the odd spring it is hard to tell if many will come up

I love the seed pods and this one was especially bright white, it is more like feathers.

There are a bunch of these coming up in the back yard.  We had a few last year but they were really small compared to the ones this year.

I was going to post these with the Misc. Shots This Week post but they were in another folder and I forgot about them.

Yet another Sunset

Treasure Falls up close and frozen

Looking down on the fresh snow in the valley

The day we drove to Farmington to pick up the panorama in the canyon on Cat Creek Road some of the trees were completely frosted.

The cat (Annapurna) decided she was going to stalk the birds she got out into the snow in the tracks left from filling the bird feeder so they couldn’t see her, but after a couple minutes she decided she was too cold sitting there waiting for her moment and  sheepishly came back into the house

We had a huge snowstorm come through and drop close to two feet here and a good four feet up in the high country.  We lost power right in the middle of watching the third Pirates of the Caribbean, very annoying LOL Power was out for 2 1/2 days!  That is the longest power outage I have endured, other than camping and so forth.  It was a good practice run, so to speak to really see what kind of preparedness was most important in this location.  Fist would be getting some solar on our well pump so we had running water.  We keep 30 -40 gallons on hand always but if it had been a week, we would have been melting snow for dishes and so forth.  We have two powerful wood stoves in fact maybe too powerful.  If we cranked it up high enough to really heat water for example it was just way to hot in the house.  So we are looking at trading one of them for a small wood cook stove.  We had plenty of food on hand and over all we were just a little bored.  We realize we need some games or something for the evening when it is just candle light.  We had a battery powered radio so we had music and one with weather band.  I don’t listen to the regular am - fm radio much the last few years.  It has become pretty worthless in such a situation, even the station here in our little town didn’t even mention the power outage.  Growing up as a child in Minnesota we relied on the radio during tornado warnings and so forth, I can’t believe how worthless it has become.  So communication is something to give a great deal of thought to.

Here is the back yard the storm came in two waves and the first wave kind of packed down some before round two hit.  At the back behind the birdbath is a tree cage like the one in front, but it is so blanketed you can’t tell there is a tree in there.

I tried to take this one while it was snowing just to see what would happen.

The cat (Annapurna) wandered outside and started to dig in the snow, she hates the litter box and is always outside in the summer and I guess she decided snow was as good as dirt.

This is Chimney Rock and old Indian cliff dwelling, there is a visitor’s center there on top of the flat part to the left.

Our neighbor came down in his tractor and plowed the driveway after the biggest part of the snow and then he drove by again the next day when there was a new dusting.  No one else had driven down the road which is rare.

I liked the color contrast of this tree trunk against the white snow

When the sun started to come out the morning of day three the icicles that had formed on the south side of the house came crashing down.

The neighbor’s shed, I love seeing it in the snow because the red is such a bright contrast.

Tree branch heavy with snow

The Jays have finally found the feeder in the front yard

When the clouds cleared away in the morning wouldn’t you know they started screwing up the view with some chemtrails, within a couple hours the beautiful sky was all a fricken haze again.

I took a couple pics from the end of the road and put some effects to make it look like night.  The first one I then added a paint effect to for fun.