Ok, so this creature is so amazingly thin and light that it can walk on water, which is what I nearly did getting out of the pool when I found it creeping towards me! It probably was just curious of that blob in the pool (me), whose eyes were bugging out almost as much asContinue reading “Thin May Be In But…”
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Feline and Wine
Baby, the cat, reflects on the glass of wine beyond her backside. She has already sniffed the glass, but declined any further offerings of the vine. She does not need the wine because life is exactly as she wants it to be, she is a cat after all. #feline #wine #chardonnay
Gently Ginger
Cradled in a pot beneath oak trees laced with Spanish moss, the ginger plant blooms brightly, watered by raindrops that are shattered into mist by the branches above. There it rests sweetly, gently.
Of Wet Windows and Tropical Wads
August has come to an end in the usual way, with warm, humid nights causing condensation onto the windows in the early morning that obscures the view outside. But this has also been an unusual August with no named tropical storms during the entire month. According to the newspaper this has happened only three timesContinue reading “Of Wet Windows and Tropical Wads”
Glow or Glower?
This curious patch of orange appeared in the eastern sky just before sunrise. It appeared not only beautiful but, also somewhat ominous, considering that it is hurricane season. Perhaps it was just a Rorschach test for the amusement or the trepidation of anyone who happened to notice its brief apparition.
Eclipse Epilogue
How amazing that we live in a time when the Sun and Moon appear to be the same size in the sky. In the past the Moon was much closer to Earth and early blocked the whole of the Sun. In the future the Moon will be much farther away and its passage in frontContinue reading “Eclipse Epilogue”
Moon Shadow
Has it really been five years since the speeding shadow of the moon swept across the US to the delight of millions who got to see it? We went to the Evergreen Aviation Museum at McMinnville, Oregon, with family members to observe it and were treated to a true solar system spectacle. The images onContinue reading “Moon Shadow”
Children of the Sea
Though material playthings may be limited on the isolated island of Ua Pou, the children’s imagination certainly is not. As the freighter Aranui lay docked, currents pushed its bow from side to side and the hawsers would lower into the water, then slowly heave upward high above the ripples, and then sink back down again.Continue reading “Children of the Sea”
Ua Pou in the Marquesas Islands
Ua Pou is an island that is difficult to describe, and even the photos don’t do it justice. Located in isolation in the South Pacific, nearly all of its outside supplies come by boat, and the locals find their own ways to live and carry on between monthly visits of the cargo ship, the Aranui,Continue reading “Ua Pou in the Marquesas Islands”
Cheshire Cat Moon and Goddess of Love
Fuzzy stars peered through a partly cloudy sky as we set out on our morning walk. As the dawn brightened we found a very thin crescent Moon and Venus through a gap in the trees. The Moon seemed to be grinning like the fabled Cheshire Cat while Venus, once considered the goddess of love, gazedContinue reading “Cheshire Cat Moon and Goddess of Love”
