What a crazy January/February we've had thus far! I absolutely love the Christmas holidays for every single reason of why we celebrate, but I have to admit that I almost enjoy more the hum-drum days that follow!Although we still haven't...
here’s a little collection of mellow octave mandolin songs I put together late last year. it’s essentially more “simple songs” that I put together in one night for Michelle. I hope you might enjoy them too....
So Bill and I make a quick trip today into Babies R Us, and instanly I swear my overies gave a lurch.
We’ve looked at baby stuff online but haven’t spent too much time examining and touching the actual stuff. I...
Ron Littlefield has been ducking out of debating Rob Healy lately and it's really ticking off the people who are sponsoring the debates. In the past few days Ron hasn't bothered showing up for the YPAC (Young Professionals Association of...
The 2 hottest teams in the SEC met today… and one of them was Auburn!
Unfortunately, the other was LSU.
The loss ends an impressive Auburn 4-game winning streak. Yet the Tigers are still even in conference play. War Eagle!...
A friend of ours, Jen Daniels (who just had twins! congrats again!), is releasing her newest CD, titled "Come Undone." I placed a widget on blog's right sidebar...listen, take, and/or share! I'm sure that you'll enjoy her music...
Okay...I am so LOST in this TV series! What the heck is goin' on?!? Ricci and I have had a couple of episodes stockpiled, so we finally sat down late last night to watch them, and I can't tell you...
"How did she make her own tights?" my friend Leigh asked. "In a vintage Airstream trailer," I replied. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Bridget Astronette....
After lunch on Wednesday we visited my uncle Fritz and his wife Maria. On Wednesday night the witches in Ostrach get freed and that is the official start of carnival in my hometown.More images from the freeing of the...
"P r o g r e s s" (she says loosely) next door has resulted in me treading water--a new home under construction and related heavy truck traffic has sliced through the cabling that furnishes our home telephone, tv cable...
M104-Sombrero Galaxy on 2/20/09
Finally, at the end of the night, I took some shots of the Sombrero Galaxy, M104. The Hubble version of it is probably my favorite Hubble image ever:
M104 by the Hubble Space Telescope (click for a massive...
as you may have noticed it has been an extremely long while since my last entry here. I have switched blogs and have even gone so far as to forget how to log in here.. I tried...
Comet Lulin - C/2007 N3 - on 2/20/09
Comet Lulin, which was discovered by a Chinese teenager in 2007, was actually just barely visible to the naked eye last night once it was high in the sky. In binoculars it was...
M51-The Whirlpool Glaxy on 2/20/09
This is, by far, the best image I’ve ever done of M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy. Previous ones were with shorter exposures and this time I took almost an hour’s worth of images. That said, I...
M45-The Pleiades on 2/20/09
I started off yesterday evening with this favorite target. I was able to add a lot of depth to the images I already had of the Pleiades and the nebulosity is really starting to show up. After...
Science Magazine has a wonderful blog, written to be accessible to us regular folks, called ScienceNOW.
Interesting recent articles include:
Detecting some missing (non-dark) matter via X-ray teloscopy.
Research on the genes behind leaf-turning.
Global warming brings erosion to Arctic coasts....
Family pictures taken before Yukari left - for mommy and daddy.Family pictures are probably the most common kind of shots taken in this world. If you ask me, they are the most difficult pictures to take. Most occasions,...
After spending 3 hours just trying to get my equipment working properly, I had a wonderful night. I’ve got a bunch of images to process in the morning. I saw a fantastic bolide (meteor) - no image, of course. I did...
I’ve got a confession to make. I have been taking absolutely no pictures lately. I’ve been so busy and the weather has been a mixed bag, so I’ve got nothing. I dug this one out of the deep recesses of...
I need a remote for my DSLR. I also plan on picking up some of those clamp-lamps, you know? Seems like it'd be easy-peasy to make some gels for them. A light box should be sometime in my near future,...
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