It’s been over a month. Yes, I still live on this planet, and I’m briefly breaking my hiatus or “holding pattern” just because this has been such a lovely evening to view the skies. Below: Venus, Jupiter, and the Moon in the western sky at 8:21 PM, March 24, 2012: Above: The thinnest crescent Moon [...]
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Venus, Jupiter, Moon, March 23/24/25, 2012
Posted in Astronomy, Astrophotography, Jupiter photos, LG VX8360 cell phone camera, Moon photos, Pets, Venus photos, Venus Transit 2012 on March 24, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Happy New Year! Waxing gibbous Moon January 1/2, 2012; small moments in the history of the universe
Posted in 2012, Astronomy, Astrophotography, LG VX8360 cell phone camera, Moon photos, Pets on January 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Here are my first modest lunar photos of 2012: Above: 11:12 PM CST 1-1-12 (5:12 UT 1-2-12), photographed through rushing thin clouds, but it was great just to see the Moon again after a week of cloudy, icky weather. Below 3:12 PM CST 1-2-12 (21:12 UT). Both with 8″ reflector telescope, 25mm eyepiece, and LG [...]
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 »
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? [...]
Last Quarter Moon November 17 and 18, 2011, with bonus woodpecker and cat-dog encounter
Posted in Astronomy, Astrophotography, Birds, LG VX8360 cell phone camera, Moon photos, Pets on November 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Above: Female Downy Woodpecker next to our driveway at 11:41 AM today. Below: Pluto and “Callie”, a neighbor calico cat, spotting each other as Pluto and I return from a walk this past Monday at 2:17 PM. Text in my blog posts will be very sketchy these next couple of weeks until I finish a [...]
Happy Sixteenth Adoption Day, Pluto!
Posted in Life events, Pets on October 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Still curious at age 16, Pluto checks out what’s under the picnic table at the dog park, Sunday afternoon, October 23, 2011. We don’t know exactly what day Pluto and his littermates were born in Mrs. Beyer’s barn in mid-August, 1995, but we know exactly what day I adopted him: Saturday, October 28, 1995, when [...]
16-year-old Pluto, a blue heron, and other creatures
Posted in Birds, Pets, Wildlife on September 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We recently celebrated the 16th “birthweek” of our venerable dog Pluto, who was born in mid-August of 1995 and continues to enjoy life, and we continue to enjoy him. Here are three candid shots as he enjoyed napping outside our living room window on September 5: All photos in this post clickable for larger view, [...]
Our Zippy Cat
Posted in Life events, Pets on March 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Zippy July 1997 – March 1, 2011
Early in the morning, while it was still dark
Posted in Astronomy, Astrophotography, Devotional Articles, Moon photos, Pets, Saturn photos, Venus photos, Wildlife on December 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m happy to report that I completed my paper for the Dead Sea Scrolls course at the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies. [*Big sigh of relief*] This article was first published in the West Douglas County Record on November 25, 2010: Many people enjoy hunting this time of year, not just for the sport or [...]
Venus Update 9-19-10
Posted in Astronomy, Astrophotography, Pets, Venus photos on September 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Since my last Venus Update, Venus has come roughly 6 1/2 million miles closer to Earth in an eight-day period. 6:23 PM CDT, August 21, 2010 Angular diameter 24.92 arc seconds 47.7% illumination Distance from Earth 62,222,852 miles (100,137,974 km) 5:58 PM CDT, August 28, 2010 Angular diameter 27.16 arc seconds 43.7% illumination Distance from [...]
Dog and Butterfly
Posted in Pets, Wildlife on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Jolly-looking Dogs, July 22, 2010 Monarch Butterfly, August 21, 2010
