VirgaBow!

 Not quite a rainbow because it is not arched across the sky. It is refracted light from a virga, which is a small burst of rain from a cloud that never reaches the ground. You can just see the virga coming down from the cloud and then it catches the sunlight.

Lil' Red Dressed Up for the Gnats

Yeah, there really is a horse under all that. Every morning before the gnats get up, I'm up feeding & dressing horses. Every night, after the gnats have gone to bed, I'm out undressing horses. Only two of them are gnat-sensitive and get the full armor. The others just get fly masks. I also spray all exposed areas of horse to keep the gnats off those parts. But it works. I've not had them go super itchy and need steroids since I started doing this. This fly sheet is in it's second season, and its ability to do that is because it is made of Textaline fabric and I learned how to make patches with old blue jeans & fabric glue (none of the patching shows in this photo).
The things we do for our horses...

Cooper's Hawk

 sitting in the elm tree right outside the window.

Cat working out

And after a hard workout, The Fluffy Cat needs a good rest.

Stuffed Animals

There are two kinds of stuffed animals in this photo. The two with the glowing eyeballs want to be more stuffed. They had just finished breakfast but felt that it was not enough. The horses here don't need to eat, unlike the ones outside. My annual delivery of hay is coming this week. 250 bales of bermuda at 105 lbs each and 70 bales of alfalfa at 110 lbs each. I still have 6 bales of bermuda from last year & 29 bales of 120 lb alfalfa from last year.

Smoke at sunrise

 Photos taken this morning before the sun came up over Red Mtn. Friday July 19.

Mountain Fire

 Photos taken about 1pm Wed. July 17. In this photo, smoke from both branches can be seen. The southern branch is just visible.

 The northern branch, behind Red Mtn.

 The horse w/the fly sheet is SSM Dream Fire, 30 yr Morgan. The roan is Sedona, TWH

 A closer look at the smoke.

 The fire is fairly far away from us. And of more import, we are upwind of it.