I HAD to walk this morning and I was determined to get out early. The plan was to be on the road for the drive to my destination by dawn. Today dawn was at 05:30:02, precisely calculated from my front door. However, at 05:30:02 I was just getting out of the shower. I'm guessing I was out the door and in the car at 5:54. So, what was the rush? One, I wanted to get back early because today would be three days since I've seen our feral cat friend Stan. Ever since I took over the reins of taking care of Stan from Docken's loving and diligent attention in late 2019, Stan has never been absent for breakfast for more than four days. With the current heatwave were experiencing I've become more concerned as to his whereabouts. Two, it's too hot for me to be out walking late morning and I have learned to factor in temperature plus the relative humidity percentage. "Feels like" 80º and I don't feel like dancin'. I tend to prefer 55º over 75º. That's me. You do you.
Sunrise was 05:57:53. I was out of the car by 6:02. In retrospect I should have driven to the top of the hill for sunrise shots. However, parking down below encouraged me to get up the dreaded stairs quickly before the sun got too high. Here are some pictures.
I decided to head back down the stairs and trek on over to the garden, do my usual "loop" on the lower campus and then head for home. Total walk time was only 33 minutes. In the garden I only paused briefly to say hello to male Calypte anna hummingbird, Dusty.
Back to the car, I tried to encourage this common raven to take some dry cat food from me. While it seemed interested in what I was doing I didn't wait to see if it came down from the lamppost to munch.
Back home and immediately checking out the backyard for Stan I noticed a first Tithonia rotundifolia flower had bloomed. Tithonia rotundifolia, AKA, Mexican sunflowers, are my backyard (front yard too this year) go to butterfly magnets into about the 2nd week of September.
Please send positive Stan vibes. Thanks for stopping by.
This song came on right as I was descending the stairs, I thought it was a perfect sunrise song.
I hope Stan shows up soon. Maybe he found a cool spot and doesn't want to give it up while the heat sizzles. Fog blew in here yesterday just after noon and our temperature immediately dropped 10 degrees and remained just below 80F the rest of the day. It was heavenly. We had a full-blown marine layer this morning. It's clearing now at our elevation but still present in the harbor so maybe today will be cooler too.
ReplyDeleteHopefully, Stan is just enjoying his latest adventure. Sunrise pics are very pretty
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