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Last sunset of 2010

Heading into the Valley of the Sun

Towards the Setting Sun

We leave Albuquerque headed towards the Valley of the Sun tomorrow morning. Our stay has been fun here in New Mexico. Between it and El Paso, I've had a blast photographing the rising and the setting of the golden orb.

New Mexico Sunrises

Albuquerque Sunrise

Peaches and Cream of a sunrise here in Albuquerque

Area 51 Sunrise

Roswell New Mexico

What a beauty it was this morning, and I see didn't see a single alien here in Roswell

El Paso Sunset

Sunsets

Beautiful Sunsets

Another Sunrise in the Desert

One more Sun Rise

Our stay here in El Paso, has been fun and a interesting place to take photographs. We have enjoy our stay and catching up with family and old friends. Our journey will continue on up into New Mexico in the next few days. I'll be posting more and more pictures as we move on down the road.

Just Another Sunrise

Just Another Sunrise

They certainly are beautiful

Black Velvet Sunrise

Black Velvet Morning

Sunrise from Mexico, and a black velvet painting it makes

Red Sunsets

Desert Skies

What a sunset this was

Sunrise in El Paso

Burnished Copper Sunrise

The sunrises in the desert are great

White Wing Dove

White in Gold

White winged Dove, in the gold of sunrise.

Rare Snow Bird

Rare Snow Bird Sightings

Caught a picture of the Rare Alaskan Snow Bird sitting in the shade of a sunny South Texas Day. Amazing that one can catch such a rare creature out and about.

Sunrise in Corpus Christi

Sunrise from the Beach

Sunrise this morning from the city of Corpus Christi, Texas

Morning Clouds

Morning Clouds

This morning the sunrise with the warm weather the clouds being blown around by the chinook wind makes for a interesting start to our day.

Short Days and Long Nights

Day Light Hours

The old squirrel is streaming live on Cam 2.  One of the most asked questions about the old Permafrost Ranch and Alaska is our length of daylight in the winter and summer.  If you look on the web pages Cam 1 page right above the live picture is a Weather Bug that shows our Sunrise and Sunset times.   It's always fun to watch our dwindling hours of daylight this time of the year.  On that shortest day of the year, we will be just under 4 hours of daylight.  So, stop in and watch the darkness grow says the old squirrel.

Short Days and Long Nights

Long Arctic Nights

The days are growing shorter and the long Arctic Night begins.  I noticed yesterday the sun doesn't clear the trees anymore.  The sun makes a low circuit on the horizon and it never climbs high in sky.  Even this old squirrel was up early this morning while still dark he was out on the feeder.  Maybe the flyers woke him up early or he was just hungry this morning.  The weather bug on Cam 1 gives you sunrise and sunset times.  Watch our day light shrink quickly.  Sunrise this morning will be at 8:44 a.m. and Sunset will be at 4:24 p.m.

First Day of Summer Roses

The wild roses are in full bloom. I was sitting here with the door open and the fragrance hit me.

Solstice Day

Yesterday was Summer Solstice, and it was one of the warmest days of summer so far. Living in the far north has it's advantages and the one that I love the most is the long hours of daylight. There is a photographers or videographers term that this time of the year brings to my mind. It's called the golden hours. It's those hours of daylight, before sunrise and sunset. It's a special light with the sun low on the horizon. Living here in North Pole, the sun makes a long slow circle of the sky and it barely sets before it rises again. What it does is lengthen that time that the golden hour exist. The longest day of the year was a pleasure just to sit and watch the squirrels here on the Permafrost Ranch. Don't tell anyone, but Alaska is a very special place to be in the glow of those long golden hours of daylight.