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A visit from a cooper’s hawk 8_14_22

Posted on August 14, 2022 by Jabo

He was very interested in the cornucopia of finches that were squawking from the nearby tree.

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Moonlight walk at Pecos National Historic Park

Posted on August 14, 2022 by Jabo

A special event at the park where a limited number of folks were allowed in after closing to walk through the Pueblo by moonlight. The moon didn’t oblige until the end of the walk but the dark skies did have some nice meteors left over from the Perseid shower.

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Storm 8_7_22

Posted on August 13, 2022 by Jabo

We were slammed last Sunday with high winds, lots of lightning, hail and about 3.5 inches of rain. What was a narrow cloud burst I was filming for thunder sound samples, became a major storm. Walking around the neighborhood afterwards, we saw plenty of washed out driveways and even some downed trees. Our garden plants were pummeled and we may be done with the tomatoes.

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Sunset 8_5_22

Posted on August 6, 2022 by Jabo

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July birds

Posted on August 5, 2022 by Jabo

The humingbird fights are heating up despite plenty of feeders. A small gang of piñon jays are stopping by along with five new house finches.

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Cumulonimbus at sunset 8_2_22

Posted on August 4, 2022 by Jabo

And a timelapse from the next day.

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Last stormy clouds and sunset for July…

Posted on July 31, 2022 by Jabo

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July 28, 1974

Posted on July 28, 2022 by Jabo

48 (ulp) years ago, my older brother’s date canceled and he decided to take me along to my very first ever real rock concert. The acts were Jesse Colin Young, the Beach Boys and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. I was 15 and was blown away by the whole thing. We missed Jesse and were walking into the stadium when the Beach Boys were playing Help Me Rhonda, maybe half way through their set. They rocked.

CSNY was amazing with the harmonies and thundering guitars. I was especially drawn to Neil playing Cinnamon Girl, Everybody Knows this is Nowhere and Ohio. The big white Gretsch he played has always been imprinted in my memory and inspired my guitar playing. There were other new inspirations but I’ll keep those to myself!

I stumbled upon all of this history after a friend sent a link to Neil Young’s website and it got me thinking about the last time I saw him in concert. I realized this concert was the first and last time I saw him. Thanks to the web site RockinHouston.com, I found photos of that event (and a few others from my early concert days). I gotta thank my brother Dave for hauling his kid brother to his first live rock n’ roll experience.

Photos from RockinHouston.com

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Lightning 7_25_22

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Jabo

We’re having a very active storm season due to the renewed monsoon. Lotta lightning last night and along with the photos (some of which have a rolling shutter artifact of the camera), I made a greatest hits movie! It’s good we are getting rain but it’s flooding out the burn scars of the various fires we’ve had here.