Sorry it’s taken me so long to post here. I tried last night, but I was so exhausted that I kept falling asleep while composing this post and resizing my photographs so that they weren’t each 5 MB in size. I was tied up here in DC pretty much all day today (Sunday) and got [...]
Continue reading about 9/12 March on the Capitol: some photos
I’ve got a new camera (a Nikon D-5000) and have been trying it out. This (above) is Howling Wingnut, known simply as Winnie. And here’s her sister, Barking Moonbat, aka Marti (short for Martian — which Sandra thought she looked like as a puppy):
Here’s Winnie again, showing off her fierceness:
Meanwhile, here’s Marti with Laverne:
Oops. Have [...]
For the last three or four days, Winnie has spent much of her waking time standing out by this portion of the fence, staring along the side of the garage. She was trying to actually dig her way under the face — moving the rocks with her paws — which led me to put the [...]
Continue reading about Behold the mighty huntress and her prey
I had the pleasure of spending the weekend with my brother and his family in the Bay Area. The highlight of the weekend was a Saturday night stargazing session in the wilds of California east of Hollister.
During this time of year, California is in its “dry season” and most of the grasses have [...]
Sandra and I rode the Denver Light Rail (first time!) from Lincoln Avenue up into downtown Denver. Our first clue that there might be a good turnout was the fact that the train were were on was full of people with signs:
And as we walked up to the Colorado State Capitol, we saw that Denver’s [...]
I ran across this photo of VP Joe Biden over at the Wall Street Journal Photo Journal and felt it cried out for captions:
My first thought was: “So, whaddya think? Sauteed? Roasted?” ..bruce w..
No, I’m not talking about the current economic meltdown. It turns out that Bavaria has some interesting Christmas customs:
The gallery of Bavarian Christmas photos explains:
The troll-like Perchten or Krampus emerge when it gets dark. The gnarled and gruesome figures stomp through the Christmas markets of Bavaria, scaring children and sometimes even give women a spanking.
Cool! [...]
[Thanks to Ace of Spades for the link!]
Over the past decade or so, astronomers have discovered over 300 extra-solar planets, that is, planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. However, these discoveries have largely been indirect, due to the planet transiting the star it orbits, or variations in the radial velocity of the star.
But now [...]