About 2:30 PM November 21, 2011: Our first lingering snow of the season has fallen, but a nearby warm water discharge keeps ducks and geese in the neighborhood all winter. Pluto investigates signs of webbed-feet activity. To my eye these duck footprints in the snow are creating a multistable perception effect. How about for you? [...]
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Duckprints in the snow, with bonus Yellow Submarine
Posted in Birds, Humor, Music, Music I like, Pets, Wildlife on November 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Moon, Jupiter, Venus, Playful Goslings and other birds, May 18-19, 2011
Posted in Astronomy, Astrophotography, Birds, Humor, Jupiter photos, LG VX8360 cell phone camera, Moon photos, Venus photos, Wildlife on May 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
4:58 AM CDT 5-18-11 (9:58 UTC), 8″ reflector, 25mm eyepiece. The Moon was riding low in the south as viewed from my northerly location, and was already sinking into the ground clutter as viewed from my backyard. Interesting shot through the leaves, though! It was more easily seen from the neighborhood park. Nineteen minutes later [...]
Blue Moon!
Posted in Astronomy, Astrophotography, Humor, Moon photos, Music on November 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
No, the Moon doesn’t really look blue like this at any time, nor did I take this picture today! I took this picture at 4:36 AM CDT last September 22, 2010 (9:36 UTC), and this is what came out when I was playing with the “aqua” setting on my cell phone camera. The Moon was [...]
Rorschach Test
Posted in Humor, Open thread discussion, Science on October 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This curiously shaped spot is on the painted concrete floor of a room in the building where I work. To me it looks like the silhouette of a Scottish Terrier, nose to the upper left. Do you agree?! What does it look like to you?
Lighten Up with Goofy Greats by Tom T. Hall
Posted in Humor, Music on October 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Astrophotography … deep grad school essays … light-hearted Country Music classics … this blog has it all!
Dance of the Hours
Posted in Humor, Music on September 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just yesterday on the way to work I heard a portion of Ponchielli’s Dance of the Hours on Minnesota Public Radio, and of course it brought to mind the hysterically funny animated sequence from Disney’s Fantasia. I especially enjoy the dance of the hippo and the alligator. Take a few moments of your day to [...]
A Portrait of the Astronomer As a Young Geek!
Posted in Astronomy, Astrophotography, Humor, Life events on September 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Here I am with my homebuilt 8″ f8 reflector telescope in about the year 1981, when the telescope was less than two years old and I was sixteen. We’re both much more weathered now, but still in service. I’d forgotten, though, how many of the scratches in the tube’s paint job were already in existence [...]
Beyond the “Bean Episode”
Posted in Astrophotography, Devotional Articles, Humor, Life events, West Douglas County Record on August 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This article was first published in the West Douglas County Record on August 26, 2010. One summer during my teens, I decided to try entering something in the County Fair, so I brought a few green snap beans that I had been growing in the garden. Unfortunately they didn’t all stay green. I had accidentally [...]
Church Bulletin Bloopers
Posted in Devotional Articles, Humor, West Douglas County Record on August 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This article was published in the West Douglas County Record on August 5, 2010: “A merry heart does good, like medicine” – Proverbs 17:22 NKJV Here are a few church bulletin bloopers which aren’t original with me at all, I just found them good for a laugh: As part of the children’s study of Moses [...]
