I had intended on going out to take photos of the eclipse, but instead found myself enthralled with the total view of the night sky. This, my friends, is why you move out to the country.
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Here’s the Eclipse, nearly full.
I made up three new words Saturday during our annual picnic in Rochester. I know they’re new because they all returned 0 hits in Google, which I wasn’t even sure was possible. Right now a server at Google HQ is probably flogging itself for failing in it’s role to return at least one paid ad…
If this isn’t Karmic justice, nothing is… Train kills man trying to kill woman A man trying to kill his girlfriend by stopping a car in front of an approaching train was himself killed Monday when the train hit the vehicle and launched it into him as he tried to flee, police said. The girlfriend…
HT to BuffaloGeek for this gem… the best Steven Colbert piece ever!
Screw Giuliani, Ron Paul is a real conservative. Not only that, he’s the kind of conservative that a lot of former Republicans who have become disenfranchised with the party would get behind.
I haven’t been posting much lately, and since this is the first chance I’ve had to take a lunch break this week, I decided now is a good time for a general update. Frankly, I’m in a lull lately. There just hasn’t been much going on and that’s both good and bad. Good because it’s…
Oh how the liberals love to point to Canada’s socialized healthcare system as being the North Star for us to navigate by. Canada’s system has big problems, though, ones which are easy to see and predict, yet hastily ignored by those looking to feed the Hutt of federal government. However, it’s hard to ignore the…
The Starry Night photo is very, very nice! That would make a nice large framed and matted print.
Derek, wonderful pictures.
I lived in Holland as a kid (Hi!) and remember more than a few starry nights when the only light was from the Fisher Price factory on the other hill. Your pictures were much better than any I ever took back then!
I saw you commenting in my brother Paul’s blog, and couldn’t resist responding to a fellow Dutchman ;>
Oh – congratulations on the new expectant arrival.
Joe