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Back to the archives again..,.just drab, dull and wet outside and so desperate for some color! Just to remind myself it is eventually coming, I'm posting this shot I took of our little neighbor boy back in '09 as he scrambled into the yard on the side of his house.
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The Wright Brothers National Memorial, located in Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina, commemorates the first successful, sustained, powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine by the Wright Brothers on December 17, 1903. It was dedicated November 14, 1932, on a day not much unlike the conditions during their famous flight tests here... stormy and windy. Orville Wright was the main guest of honor at that ceremony (Wilbur died 20 years earlier from typhoid fever).
On July 20, 1969, a scant 65 years after that first flight, mankind first stepped on that moon up there. While that was achieved with rockets, it could not have been done without a thorough knowledge of controlled flight.
My mom's dad and my dad both worked for NASA. I wish there was something that would bring this nation together the way the space race did at that time… I well understood that and my family’s place in it. Dad repaired computers at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, back in that day. Before Neil Armstrong took that "one small step" on the moon, he was walking around that facility suspended on a system of slings and cables to experience how the Moon's gravity might affect him. The Apollo astronauts also practiced what it might be like to land on the Moon there using the 240-foot tall Lunar Lander Research Facility, a lunar lander simulator. In the day before sophisticated computer simulators that are widely in use now, the Lunar Excursion Module Simulator (LEMS) was a mockup of the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) hanging from a series of rails, cables, and pulleys. Its functionality was determined to be more complicated and problematic the LEM itself, so it wasn’t used extensively after the first few crews used it. I do remember seeing it in use, and that was always at night so the astronauts would experience conditions closer to that of the moon. For all their practice, landing on the Moon presented problems that engineers never dreamed of for the simulator... Apollo 11's landing of the Eagle nearly wasn't.
In their excitement when separating Eagle (the LEM) from Columbia (the Command Module), the crew didn't completely depressurize the docking collar... it was enough pressure in the vacuum of space to send them 4-miles off course. To make matters worse, the LEM astronauts inadvertently switched on a breaker that caused a greater fuel burn than they had calculated for. And, just to make things a bit more dramatic, a switch that had a piece of tin/lead solder floating around within it in zero gravity kept shorting contacts that lit an indicator to abort the landing... after a terse discussion with Mission Control concerning Eagle's flightworthiness, Buzz Aldrin continued descent, and manned flight history was made yet again. They reached the surface of the moon in a zero-fuel state at the very end... complicated or not, practicing that last 150-feet of approach with the LEMS paid off.
At this point, I know some of you may be wondering why the history of Apollo 11 is relevant here… so here’s the rest of the story: aboard the Eagle that day, along with the astronauts, was a piece of wood and some fabric from the original Wright Flyer... from Kittyhawk to Tranquility Base and back again, and you can see it here at the Visitor's Center. I wonder what Orville and Wilbur would have thought of that?
rows of tiny chucks, lined up in perfect order, each pair a vessel for small adventures. the soft focus blurs the boundaries between them, creating a sense of unity and endless possibilities. the simplicity of the shoes, with their clean lines and classic design, speaks to the purity of childhood, where every step is a new discovery. these little shoes, waiting to be worn, hold the promise of countless stories yet to be told.
... for a squirrel, a giant leap for the squirrel-kind!
Timing is the only thing I liked in this shot. The sun was on the other side, so I decided to change it to a silhouette in PP (the original was almost a silhouette).
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Greyson really enjoyed our first walk through Grand River North Ravines Park. He was all excited and walked/ran the entire way down to the Grand River. Then of course on the way back to the car his dad and I had to carry him.
He didn't slow down to much for me to get a lot of shots so I just told myself to stop taking photos and enjoy the time with them.
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip toe if you must, but take the step. #smallsteps #motivation
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Presentation on Peg Kehret's "Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio" -- a book about a girl who overcame challenges after contracting polio. This was a powerful book that she could not put down.
After bathing outside in her little pool, my daughter wanders into the house to get dried and dressed. Being three.... sorry, being nearly four, her paces are not terribly long and a foot lands on each brick.
Nice to see she doesn't have fallen arches yet. ;)
Perfect way to jump into this week 🙏 #motivationmonday
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“And are we near the World’s End now, Sir?” asked Caspian. “Have you any knowledge of the seas and lands further east than this?”
“I saw them long ago,” said the Old Man, “but it was from a great height. I cannot tell you such things as sailors need to know.”
“Do you mean you were flying in the air?” Eustace blurted out.
“I was a long way above the air, my son,” replied the Old Man. “I am Ramandu. But I see that you stare at one another and have not heard this name. And no wonder, for the days when I was a star had ceased long before any of you knew this world, and all the constellations have changed.”
“Golly,” said Edmund under his breath. “He’s a retired star.”
“Aren’t you a star any longer?” asked Lucy.
“I am a star at rest, my daughter,” answered Ramandu. “When I set for the last time, decrepit and old beyond all that you can reckon, I was carried to this island. I am not so old now as I was then. Every morning a bird brings me a fire-berry from the valleys in the Sun, and each fire-berry takes away a little of my age. And when I have become as young as the child that was born yesterday, then I shall take my rising again (for we are at earth’s eastern rim) and once more tread the great dance.”
“In our world,” said Eustace, “a star is a huge ball of flaming gas.”
“Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is but only what it is made of.”
From The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Compiled in A Year with Aslan