Equinox in socks
A couple of weeks ago, I was thinking "The spring equinox is coming up, but I'm sure not feeling very...
Archive for Nature
No one can hold back the dawn
An hour from now, at 9:47 a.m. California time, our sun will reach its apparent southernmost point; the subsolar point...
Cute baby-animal photos
I wonder which there are more of on the the Internet: cute animal photos or porn photos. Anyway. Kam and...
In the morning
Only two more days 'til Winter Solstice. Here in California, it'll happen Monday morning at 9:47 a.m. I'm really really...
Junk mail from environmentalists
Apparently when you buy a house, all sorts of groups decide that you must have money that you want to...
Et in Acadia ego (part 2)
Thursday, as noted at the end of part one, we went whale-watching, on a tour run by Bar Harbor Whale...
Et in Acadia ego (part 1)
(I think Kendra was the one who suggested the pun I'm using as the title of this entry, shortly after...
Roll of thunder
Sitting in M&K's living room, seeing occasional huge flashing lightning bursts off to the north, followed ten or fifteen seconds...
Online snowflake makers
Amtrak's snowflake maker is pretty cute--simulating cutting a snowflake out of paper. Needs Flash, I think. What appears to be...
Spring!
Last week, I was sad to realize that I had completely failed to notice the Spring Equinox as it went...
Bunny
On Saturday, I was gearing up to do some house-cleaning when Twig showed up. She had left her stuff at...
Daylight’s return
This year's winter solstice will occur at 7:22 p.m. Eastern (US) Standard Time on December 21. Which is to say,...