Greetings and Salutations; Some time before the inauguration, plans grew to hold a Woman’s March in protest against the new… Read more
Category: Astronomy
Items astronomical in nature
Sifting Through The Ashes, Part Twelve – The Power has been Transferred
Greetings and Salutations; At Noon today, the deed was done. President-Elect donald was sworn into the office. This inauguration… Read more
A Time to Pause; A time to Assess: Martin Luther King – Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
Greetings and Salutations; The speech I posted about yesterday was hardly the last important legacy left us by Dr. King…. Read more
Where have all the bee-girls gone? Long time passing…
Greetings and Salutations; Sigh….the world of the beekeeper is full of odd moments these days. The problems with… Read more
Notes From The Sky!
Greetings and Salutations; Just a quick note to remind everyone that this month is the Orionid Meteor Shower…. Read more
A Meditation on this Memorial Day Weekend
Greetings and Salutations; I have been poking around online, and, on the cable channels this… Read more
Ever Visited an Old Growth Redwood?
Greetings and Salutations; Some of the most amazing and majestic trees left in America are the old… Read more
Politics…When Did Lying Become OK?
The following is an Email forwarded to me by a friend. Some variation of it has been around since 2011… Read more
Life is Complicated…Observations on Jackson Galaxy
Greetings and Salutations; Over the past year or so, I have started watching Jackson Galaxy’s Animal… Read more
Remembrance of Things Past…
Greetings and Salutations; Proust, in his famous tome “Remembrance Of Things Past”, spent something like… Read more
I am feeling a little stuffed today….
Greetings and salutations; Once again, I am relieved to find that there are stranger people than… Read more
How do YOU deal with Stress?
Greetings and Salutations; After far too long as a Renter, we are moving into the Octagon… Read more
Why should someone have to die because some punk is “bored?”
Greetings and Salutations; Once again, my fellow Americans have shown that they have the capacity to amaze me and… Read more
Why the Space Program is SO worth it
Greetings and Salutations; There are so many amazing images that NASA is collecting, that I thought I… Read more
Lovely pictures of Technology in Action
Greetings and Salutations; Hidden in the mass of terrible news of destructive weather, personal tragedy and… Read more
More contemplations on Society after the Mayan NoPocalypse
Greetings and Salutations; I hope that we all had a great time as our… Read more
Hubble Space Telescope – 22 years and going Strong.
Greetings and Salutations; Perhaps one of the most useful pieces of scientific equipment launched by NASA was the… Read more
A frustrating Astronomical Moment
Greetings and Salutations; Hum…And folks say that Nature is a mindless force, with no sense of… Read more
Thoughts on Meteor Showers…
Greetings and Salutations…. We had a shotgun blast of cometary fragments hit the Earth this last Tuesday morning, although, alas,… Read more
Cosmological musings….
Notes on new theories of cosmology and what drives the universe and a less than serious theory to explain the continuing acceleration of the Universe’s expansion