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Post date: Dec 6, 2015 3:55:19 AM
This weekend I was too busy to work on the house — even to open boxes or shelve linens. I wanted to get some photos of the newly landscaped berms around the house, but the sun was not positioned right this morning.
I went to Taos Java to sing ballads with friends who regularly sing, play guitar and harmonicas on Saturday mornings. Most enjoyable for me. Last week the lines to get coffee were nearly out the door all morning. Today it was much quieter.
One of the singers is a good cardiologist (electrician, as he says, because he doesn’t do stents), so I got his office phone to make an appointment for follow-up of my recent mild heart attack.
On my way home I wanted to photograph the sandstone paving recently laid around the house I’m renting. I sent a picture off to my landlady. While walking around the house I noticed movement at my feet, so stopped to observe. Dashing in to a tunnel on the side of the drainage culvert was a field mouse (most likely Microtus pennsylvanicus). I got out my camera, adjusted the zoom, and waited. Didn’t have long to wait until it came out. The snout looks more narrow than the photos online and I did not get a chance to observe its tail length which would distinguish it from a house mouse (Mus musculus). I’ve had glimpses of them running through the grass before, but never a chance to photograph one. Peromyscus boylii (brush mouse) also lives in this part of the world, but the habitat doesn’t seem quite correct, as they are semi arboreal and there are no trees or shrubs around this house.
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