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Enjoying the view points while driving the Sea to Sky Highway after work for a short Whistler get-away.
© 2006 Phillip Nesmith
US Marine surveyors near Naco Arizona share with me the finer points of building a road along the border. Mexico starts on the other side of the wire fence. The two Marines are part of a 6000 person force deployed along the Arizona border as part of Operation Jumpstart. Reserve and National Guard forces are conducting jobs ranging from building roads and barriers to sitting in observation post along the border lands reporting activities to the Border Patrol. July 2006
PWL Wainwright resident Olive Frissell (right) and volunteer Vera Hay; winners of the Scavenger Hunt.
Another shot from the Chihuly at Cheekwood in Nashville that we attended last year. This is just a small section of the boat installation. I wanted to zero in on some of the shapes and points in this installation. Please let me know what you think as suggestions are welcomed and appreciated. Enjoy!
BRADFORD, Ernle (1973). Christopher Columbus. Michael Joseph, London. ISBN 0 7181 0771 3
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AMATEUR NATURALIST - Orienting yourself to the stars
By Dana Wilde, BDN Staff; Posted Feb. 12, 2012, at 4:50 p.m.
The key to stargazing is points of orientation.
In the beginning, like for all beginnings, you take the simple points first, which in the case of stargazing is simply the brightest stars. There are two ways to use the bright stars, and like practically everything else in the universe, the two ways tend to merge: orientation by individual star and orientation by constellation. I mean, some stars are very bright and easy to spot, and some constellations are very prominent to the eye.
For example, in a clear field looking north at our latitudes (44.67 degrees north here in Troy), most people can pick out the bowl and handle of the Big Dipper without much help. Once you’ve got it, you can never miss it again. And a nice advantage to it is that in our part of the world it’s always up there; it never sets, it just whirls around and around night after night, sort of comforting in a way.
But anyway, once you have the Big Dipper (or Ursa Major, the Great Bear) for a point of orientation, the geography of the whole northern sky opens up. The two outer stars of the bowl make a line pointing northward at a fairly bright star — this is Polaris, the North Star. From Polaris you can trace a somewhat fainter curve of stars around to another smaller dipper — the Little Dipper (Ursa Minor, the Little Bear). And in the Big Dipper’s handle, the two end stars point roughly toward the fourth-brightest star in the sky, reddish Arcturus.
These are all, with a little patience and focus, easy to find, and you can never get lost in the northern sky again. That feels like it could come in pretty handy at some point, though I’m not sure when, exactly.
There are clear points of orientation in other parts of the sky in different seasons, too. In summer a fairly easily spotted constellation is the Northern Cross, or Cygnus, the Swan. It’s not quite as distinct as the Big Dipper because there are more visible stars in its vicinity, but once your eye lights on it, it’s in your memory for good because its five stars are in the exact proportion of a cross, or a flying swan or goose. To the side of the swan’s head end is the fifth-brightest star we see, Vega. A couple of skips farther on the other side of the swan’s head is another bright star, Altair. On August and September nights Altair is near the southwest horizon in the constellation Aquila, the Eagle, whose four brightest stars, when your eye catches them, look like a flattened diamond.
In September and October, if you look east just after sunset you’ll see four fairly bright stars in a distinct box shape, with few other stars visible among them; this is the Square of Pegasus. If you scan to your left a little bit, your eye will enter a star field, and in it are four quite bright ones in a lopsided W — this is Cassiopeia.
In winter the most striking shape in the southern evening sky is Orion, with his three-star belt and a sword hanging vaguely off it. Two bright stars above and below are at his head, or more precisely his shoulder (reddish-colored Betelgeuse), and foot (cold, bluish Rigel). At his heel is the brightest star in the sky that’s not the sun, Sirius, the Dog Star in the shoulder of Canis Major, the Big Dog, bounding along behind the hunter.
Now these are just beginnings. These bright stars and constellations are like outposts in space from where you can navigate further out. This is not like a video game. But with patience and repetition (they’re there every clear night, year after year), you’ll see less obvious constellations start to emerge from the welter of lights, like Hercules, which is a lopsided box with four stars like appendages shooting off it, between Ursa Major and Vega. Nearby is a crownlike semicircle of stars called Corona Borealis.
Between the Square of Pegasus and Cassiopeia is Andromeda, where if you’re patient and know how to use binoculars (simple — hold them up to your eye, aim them at something and focus the image), on clear nights you can pick up a smudge of light that is actually a galaxy, M31, 2.5 million light-years away.
These stars and constellations are bright points of orientation on your maps of the stupendous elsewhere that will eventually, if you let them, burn themselves into your mind. That could come in handy sometime. I’m not exactly sure how yet.
Dana Wilde’s collection of Amateur Naturalist and other writings, “ The Other End of the Driveway,” is available electronically and in paperback from Booklocker.com.
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Five Points: House-Made Pork-Fennel Sausage & Poached Eggs with Buttermilk Biscuit, Roasted Tomato Sauce & Hollandaise Sauce.
Loved it. Loved the roasted tomato sauce w/ the hollandaise sauce.
A different crop of an old photo, I was advised to crop it like this, not sure yet if I like this version better.
This is the points motors wiring on a few point motors. They are standard Hornby motors, possibly as they ware out, they may be replaced with more reliable, longer lasting servos.
Points to work on when dealing with bronchial asthma...
Please consult your physician first before trying only this treatment for your condition...Ear reflexology is an alternative form of treating disorders or conditions and should not be relied on solely as a source of treatment.
In Looking Glass Exhibition : reflecting ideas, 21 Glass Artists Sarjeant Gallery Wanganui NZ and Pataka Porirua Wellington curated by Grace Cochrane
Taken with a Voigtlander Brilliant
shooting into the sun and breaking the traditional rules. this adventure into [or back to] the analog world is both enjoyable and beneficial to the digital side too. I think so much about each shot before I take it. and there's that terrifying moment afterward where you don't know if you've captured it correctly and you know that you have to wait until the film is finished and developed. maybe digital is just an adjunct to the analog world.
Sauvignon Blanc & Pinot Grigio
The drinks were on the table and I saw the light flooding in through the windows. Yes, had to capture it :)
Photographed with Canon EOS 550D and given an amber 'wash' using Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 software.