February may be the coldest month – it’s feeling Continue reading “Valentine’s morn”
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Back to the Earthrise Photo
There was a Muse for each kind of literature Continue reading “Back to the Earthrise Photo”
Twentieth day of a brightening year
It’s January 20, for America a Continue reading “Twentieth day of a brightening year”
Flag Day after Inauguration Day
These are three of the four flags we hope to fly on our house when that becomes possible.
World Smiles Tentatively
On Wednesday January 20 comes the inauguration of Joe Biden, 46th president of the United States of America.
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A close grouping of three planets, in the evening sky, but very low to the horizon.
Crashing into the Last Quarter Moon
It’s still getting colder. Back on December 21 passed the winter solstice – accompanied, this year, by the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn – and then on December 31 the lamentable moment when once-Great Britain dropped out of a greater family, the European Union.
Eclipse across the Andes (and Washington)
The Moon wields a wand: the long slender shadow called the umbra, which when it touches Earth creates a magic show. The wand will sweep across South America on December 14.
Continue reading “Eclipse across the Andes (and Washington)”
Dark Star
The Drake equation is a way of estimating the likelihood that we will ever contact life elsewhere in the universe. Continue reading “Dark Star”
Concolor
We arrive on Tuesday September 22 at the equinox: when day and night hang equal. Continue reading “Concolor”