Office Plant

I repotted my office plant today. It's the second time I've repotted it. Here it is, a Nephthytis, or Syngonium podophyllum (according to the plastic stick sign that came with it), in its second home, with its original home to the left:


And here it is in its new pot:


This web site calls the plant a "No-Worry Nephthytis", which is probably how it's been able to prosper under my care!

Downtown Louisville

I went downtown this morning to try out a new coffee shop and to browse the farmers' market.

Here is Bittersweet Cafe


where I was entertained by a book until Rich and Sara came:



Then we strolled up and down the farmers' market:


It got too hot, so we went home. It's supposed to reach 100 today! (I'm hoping for the 10% chance of rain)

Soul Sacrifice

I saw a Santana cover band, Soul Sacrifice, in the park this evening with Harald, Roya, Rich, and Sara.

Beginning of concert:


Near the end of the concert:


The moon:

Sunset and clouds

I went shopping with Sara for netbook minis after work. I plan on buying one for my trip to Europe.

On our way home, we drove past a nice-looking sunset, so we decided to stop and take pictures. You can see where we stopped on the map from my previous post: near the 'S' in 'MESA', close to the dotted line, there is a path.

First, a panorama:


A lot of clouds disappeared with the sun, which was kind of strange. Here are a series of pictures I took of the same cloud:





In the last picture, you can barely make out little pink clouds.

Longs Peak:


My favorite cloud of the evening:


And introducing Sara's new haircut:



UPDATE:

And one of me that Sara took:


It almost looks like I'm standing in front of a mural or news weather screen in that thumbnail.

Testing my knee

I tweaked my knee moving heavy crates while unloading a truck from the field project. I tested it out by riding up (and down) hills on my bike. Today I went over Davidson Mesa (the imposing hill in Louisville between me and Boulder) a couple times.


Before I went down the other side (just before 2.5 miles), I took this picture:

Street Faire

I went to the


to see




and met up with

New Mexico flyby

On June 11, when I was on my way from Tampa to Ontario (via Las Vegas), I flew over New Mexico. I took pictures out the window, and although they weren't very clear (I sat over the wing, so all pictures were taken at a shallow angle), it gives me a chance to post some pre-blog pictures.

White Sands National Monument (the white blur near the horizon):


And from March 2005, my friend Brett at White Sands:


and my car:


Socorro from the plane:


Socorro's 'M' Mountain:


M Mountain and Socorro from South Baldy:


The Magdalena Range (nearest dark range) and South Baldy (highest peak with light-colored side):


Magdalenas and South Baldy:


South Baldy from the balloon hangar:


The Very Large Array (VLA):


If you zoom into the middle of the above picture, you can barely make out the radio dishes:


They were one of the first things I visited after I moved to Socorro.




I went there again during Brett's visit. We had just driven up from warm Socorro to the top of snowy South Baldy one day.


The weather turned to snow once we were down the mountain, it was very foggy, and we wanted to get to the VLA before sunset. I didn't think I'd be able to show Brett much at all. But lo and behold, the fog broke just as we arrived at the VLA!


We took a bunch of pictures before the sun finally set.



On our way out there, we thought about giving up, turning around, and going home -- but I'm glad we didn't!