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Solar Spectacles

I observe the Sun through specially designed solar telescopes on a nearly daily basis. This is the first time that I felt like the Sun was looking back at me. Filaments of hydrogen held aloft by powerful magnetic fields created this illusion of “Sun Glasses.” #sunglasses #sun #glasses #spectacles

Yes, we have no bananas but…

We definitely have Florida banana spiders, or as they are otherwise called, golden silk orb-weavers. This specimen in our back yard was bout three inches across, leg tip to leg tip, had about a three-foot diameter web, and is obviously a female. Like many other species, the male is puny and of little value otherContinue reading “Yes, we have no bananas but…”

Larry, Curley, and Moe

Well, they are pineapples, not stooges I guess, and if they were named after their looks, they would be Spike, Spike, and Spike. But they are Howard’s, and they are Fine. They are the descendants of pineapples that we brought back from Maui more than a decade ago, either from the tops of harvested pineapples,Continue reading “Larry, Curley, and Moe”

Thin May Be In But…

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…”

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”