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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
Since Hogwarts is my home, staying home for Christmas seems to be not so bad ...
I always liked this time of the year, the snowy silence full of expectations, the soft tinking of bells, occasionally interrupted by singing armours or suddenly swooping snowballs.
Although there is still much homework to do, I'm really looking forward to one of our pleasurable Christmas traditions and the best sport ever : Base-jumping in the restricted section!
But first we have to get our portkey to Stonehenge to celebrate the Solstice and the Christmas Star in the Great Conjunction 🌠 - oh, what a night!
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Happy Solstice & Merry Christmas!
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I did have help from Google and Youtube...........so here you have a 65mm Cube, Blood Sweat and Tears !
A fully immersive game. Can you solve the mysteries of the Scarlett Hotel?
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“Black-headed Grosbeak parents fly south with worn feathers after breeding season. Their molting locations had been a mystery. The California scientists solved it with relatively inexpensive Global Positioning System (GPS) receiving devices.
They attached the 1-gm electronic devices to a leg of each grosbeak. The devices wake up every 2-6 weeks, record the GPS position and switch off. The GPS device, leg harness and leg bands weigh less than 2 g, or the equivalent of a long-distance runner carrying a laptop in a backpack. Each bird must be recaptured to download the data.” Topbirdingtours.com
Solving puzzles is a hobby, addiction or compulsiveness? This is not as easy as it seems the maze pass is just barely big enough for the BB to fall through and really easy to come back out LOL. It is a close up, the puzzle is right at 3 inch across. I thought it was too big so quartered the puzzle to a 1-1/2 inch square frame to make it macro.
"You did the right thing, yeah
When you went and looked my way
I know, I know what you wanna say
You wrote it all on your face
(On, on, your)
Just beam me up, beam me up, leave me, don't bring me down
You've been fighting from the gallows
The shadows just come on out
(But you know)
It's all good when it's all bad
Be hurting all day but it's all math
You're losing your brain
And falling right back
It's all good when it's all bad
Been looking all day but it's all math
Just solve the equation
Get it all back." - QUIÑ ♫
'Blow off a little steam'
World's first steam powered clock
Built in 1977. Raymond Saunders' first steam clock was built in 1977 to solve the issue of a steam vent in a popular sidewalk for the renovated Gastown district of Vancouver. Owned by the City of Vancouver, BC Canada
The steam clock's plaque reads:
THE GASTOWN STEAM CLOCK
Designed and built by
Raymond L. Saunders
Horologist
The world's first steam powered clock has been created for the enjoyment of everyone. The live steam winds the weights and blows the whistles. Every 4.5 minutes one steel weight will travel by steam power to the top of the clock. The gravity driven "falling ball" drive was 'engineered' by Douglas L. Smith. Each quarter hour the clock will sound the Westminster Chimes. The large whistle will sound once on the hour. The steam is supplied by the underground system of Central Heat Distributor's Limited. The component parts cost $42,000 and the clock weighs over two tons.
A few years ago the clock was refit and is not entirely steam powered. It also has three small electric motors to help operate two internal fans, one of which blows the steam out the top, and another that controls the valves that play the tunes on the five steam whistles mounted atop the clock case.
The large central whistle, which was taken off the CPR steam tug Naramata, counts off the full hours while the four auxiliary whistles chime the Westminster Quarters every quarter hour. The number of chimes matches the number of quarter hours that have passed.
Wikipedia and various other online sites.
*Please note : Information has not been verified accurate
Best experienced in full screen.
Colours and light slightly muted due to weather conditions.
Thanks so much for comments and visits
~Christie
I had some issues with my image processing computer's monitor. Once I changed out the monitor, I realized that most of my most recent images looked too dark. This is a reprocess of the original 2 panel mosaic
Messier 42 never fails to impress along with its companion, the Running Man Nebula.
Details:-
Skywatcher Quattro 8CF on an HEQ5-Pro, CentralDS Astro60D at -10C with an Astronomik CLS EOS-Clip.
Guided shots of 5x5s plus 5x10s plus 5x120s plus 5x240s.
Flats and Bias frames but no Darks.
Stacked and initial processing with Images Plus, combined with PhotoMatix and Photoshop CS6, finished off with Picassa.
Thank you all for your kind comments.
Timmy’s biggest problem right now is getting enough cuddles. With this heat, I hardly ever see him except at 7:30 a.m. for breakfast and at 9:30 p.m. for dinner. If I’m lucky, like now, he hears me when I go out to the garden in the early evening. He comes out, still half-asleep, and climbs up his ladder. I have to go down two steps on the little staircase to the garden. Then our heads are at the same height, and we can relax and cuddle to our hearts’ content.
Happy Caturday 11.7.2026 "Solving our cat's problems"
There were many questions with my last post of the red bellied woodpeckers but this solves the problem everyone had. Such a wonderful pair and delight to photograph !
Wishing everyone a memorable Memorial Day and a Day we give thanks to the men who fought and gave the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom . We think of their families and friends and pray for them today and always !! Thank you !
There were two of these gorgeous trees in full bloom at Lake St. Clair Metropark. The leaves looked like chestnut trees but the flowers were colored like buckeye tree flowers. Both of those trees have large palmate compound leaves. What were they, I wondered.
Later, I remembered seeing trees like these many years ago in Paris. They lined many of the streets and boulevards of Paris. There were the Horse-chestnuts with whitish flowers, and these pink/red flowers of the Red Horse-chestnut trees.
This picture is of Red Horse-chestnuts, a hybrid of Red Buckeye and Horse-chestnut...mystery solved (again).
In Explore #273 6/17/2025
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
Franz Kafka
SH2-124 is a faint emission nebula located in the constellation of Cygnus.
Imaging telescope: Vixen VSD 100 f/3
Imaging camera: 9.2mp Sony SX814
Mount: Software Bisque Paramount MX
Guiding telescope or lens: Vixen VSD 100 f/3
Filters: Chroma OIII 3nm, Chroma Ha 3nm and Chroma SII 3nm
Dates: Nov..Dec...2016
Frames: 46x1800" at F3
Integration: 45.0 hours
Locations: Home observatory, Valencia, Spain
“The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.”
—Humphrey Bogart
Happy Mono Monday!
02:00 UTC 25 Sept 2023
Wisconsin Northern L2 spots tanks and plastic hoppers next to the faded C&NW station sign in Bloomer, Wisconsin with an ex-Reserve Mining SD38-2 for power.
Here I used stroboscopic (multi) flash mode while spinning the Rubik's cube to emphasise the process of solving it.
After a very long wait, this shrub which I believe is a form of Ixora has finally flowered. Unlike more common Ixoras, of which we have got quite a few, the flowers on this one, at least at this point remain almost spear like. Frustratingly, I can't find the little card that came with it for a positive ID. Anyone with far superior knowledge to mine would be welcome to clear up the mystery. BTW, this is a current shot!
UPDATE: Thanks to Dave and Margaret who have identified this plant and flower as a Chinese Ixora called "Flame of the Woods". A couple of days after I took this photo, those little spears are blossoming forth with more normal tiny Ixora flowers.
Happy weekend everyone.
Here I used stroboscopic (multi) flash mode while spinning the Rubik's cube to emphasise the process of solving it.
A westbound C&O freight pulls out of the Rock Island's "South Chicago Yard" behind a GP30, U25b, and GP35 power combo, very typical of C&O's trains on the former Pere Marquette lines to and from Michigan. As they do so (and it appears that a brakeman is about to dismount), they cross the N&W (ex-NKP), pass the operator/switchtender shanty and then the C&WI with its complex of "diamonds", gates, and a peculiar light arrangement that must give some information on which route to use..."be governed by instructions provided in the timetable, rule xxxxx" is my guess where that mystery would be solved! Also, I recall the C&O/PM moves seemed to usually be on the tracks farther over, but this could be a road pickup or setout. For the Rock, this yard was reached by a branch off their main, further west, and provided them with much easier connections to eastern railroads. So this could be an interchange of cars between the C&O and the Rock.
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I managed to capture some data on this comet passing close to the galaxy M101.
Baader modified Canon 6D @ ISO1600
Canon 500mm f/4 L IS Lens
120x 60 second subs.
Captured 15th January 2015