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Thx, Aellyce. Makes me think of amber. Much as I appreciate the disintegration of memory, it's also wonderful to see things preserved.
--By Anders L. Damgaard http://www.amber-inclusions.dk, 40-50 million year old ant
--By Anders L. Damgaard http://www.amber-inclusions.dk, 40-50 million year old ant
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The pocket park is beautiful, Courage. Reminds me a little of the park where my husband and I were married. It was a little patch of green with a water feature and was sort of plopped down in the middle of some skyscrapers downtown. 
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These are some of the things that amaze me. The pic is Abell 1689 taken with the Hubble telescope. Each cluster of light is an entire galaxy as big or bigger than our Milky way. The light you see is over 2 billion years old.
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It's wonderful how we intersect here. Aellyce loves the swamps and she posts a picture of mist rising in a swamp -- I walk down 1st Avenue on a foggy night. The coincidence of our experiences makes me investigate fog, and I learn about foghorns. High frequency, short-wavelength sounds travel poorly in fog -- the waves get lost bouncing back and forth against all the tiny droplets of moisture in the fog. Hence, the low voices of foghorns:
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https://youtu.be/IfV8Vi2o_W0
make sure you have audio on.
falcon not related to Mayne Island
Mayne is my favourite of all the Gulf Islands, and just a short ferry ride from here. have rented a cabin there many times, though not nearly often enough
how bizarre you picked that particular example!
make sure you have audio on.
falcon not related to Mayne Island
Mayne is my favourite of all the Gulf Islands, and just a short ferry ride from here. have rented a cabin there many times, though not nearly often enough
how bizarre you picked that particular example!
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Courage, I was out walking during the same rainstorm (I think) yesterday
When I was in college, I was required to take a Meteorology class, which totally captured and fascinated me. Subsequently, I decided to take a couple more semesters in that field just out of curiosity. (Oh, and I had a crush on one of the young instructors giving the classes
)
That "crush" on Meteorology led into a few years of fascination with Chaos Theory, Dynamical Systems, and mathematical model design to study the (infamously unpredictable nature of the) weather. I seriously considered those as a career choice for a while. Finally did not; it was just a rather short love affair, but I still like to read and learn about it as a lay person.
This is for a more meditative take, talking about a storm on a sunny day
When I was in college, I was required to take a Meteorology class, which totally captured and fascinated me. Subsequently, I decided to take a couple more semesters in that field just out of curiosity. (Oh, and I had a crush on one of the young instructors giving the classes
) That "crush" on Meteorology led into a few years of fascination with Chaos Theory, Dynamical Systems, and mathematical model design to study the (infamously unpredictable nature of the) weather. I seriously considered those as a career choice for a while. Finally did not; it was just a rather short love affair, but I still like to read and learn about it as a lay person.
This is for a more meditative take, talking about a storm on a sunny day
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Originally Posted by courage2 
"Take, eat, and live." (Racine)
Eat, dunk, and and enjoy the salty sea aftertaste trailing the
honey-dense flavor of concentrated tropical sweetness. . .
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I expect it was the same storm, Aellyce. A doozy
Hawkeye, when my husband was a baby, they used to put him naked in a tub with a mango!
I saw swans & cygnets out the window of the train to Newark airport in New Jersey today. Not known as the most beautiful landscape in creation, but...
Hawkeye, when my husband was a baby, they used to put him naked in a tub with a mango!
I saw swans & cygnets out the window of the train to Newark airport in New Jersey today. Not known as the most beautiful landscape in creation, but...
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