We learned from a recent newspaper item that there is a list of Britain’s “Top Ten Beaches,” calculated Continue reading “The most beautiful place in the world”
Category: miscellaneous
Kous Conquers
A story. You could consider it to be about an alternative planet.
Wild Carrot Galaxies
White spirals: that was the cover-painting theme for my Astronomical Calendar one year (1994). On the front was a hurricane called Hyacinth, its violent spiral spanning several hundred miles; inside was the Whirlpool Galaxy, otherwise known as Messier 51, forty thousand light-years wide; and on the back was the plant called Queen Anne’s Lace, painted at true scale, I think, its flowering head six inches wide.
I remembered about this because I’ve found five other drawings I must have made of that plant in South Carolina.
Fortieth day from Christmas
Tor, good afternoon, your February 2 birthday is coming around again – your eleventh! And it will also be Groundhog Day again. A year ago, Continue reading “Fortieth day from Christmas”
Yet another definition of midwinter
A group met on the third Monday of the month, Continue reading “Yet another definition of midwinter”
Closely confined
There are two more sky events for Wednesday, though unlike Continue reading “Closely confined”
Constellation Bowie? I don’t think so
Rock star David Bowie died, and according to Continue reading “Constellation Bowie? I don’t think so”
Does the bloodroot hear?
Today, January 5, came the latest sunrise, Continue reading “Does the bloodroot hear?”
The Quadrantids and the Edot
The Quadrantid meteor stream hits us in the night of Jan. 3/4. Here is the picture from Astronomical Calendar 2016 page 6, but more expansively and with an addition.
The Sea as a Bell
We traveled by train to Portugal, taking four days, but hastened home at thirty thousand feet.