Nature
Checking the feeders early
Click the goldfinch to enlarge.
Christmas Cactus at work
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First white bloom, more coming. Not sharp enough. Need try again.
Total lunar eclipse on the winter solstice…
| as seen 2:39am 21 December 2010, through a hazy sky over Stafford, Virginia. Click the pic to enlarge. Also here’s a link to some pictures on the BBC website. |
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A chilly midwinter morning
Thursday’s 2½” hadn’t melted much by Sunday morning.
I know I could easily straighten the woodpile but then the house would be crooked.
Christmas Cactus
First bloom of the season on my windowsill at work.
Walked the dogs to the pond and back Saturday morning
Election officials Nov 2nd
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Almost 16 hours on the job: Bob, me, Amy, Jim, Judy, Chris, Paulette, and Linda, after we’d said goodbye to the last voter and tabulated and reported 1,687 ballots. |
Gazing out the office window
| A red oak visible 150 feet from my cubicle window, often convenient for a half dozen mourning doves. |  |
Moon flowers (updated)
| Moonflower at dawn, Oct 10th. |  |
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Monday Sept 27 was our second rainfall this month, bringing us 0.2″, prompting this evening’s tripling (by 7:30pm) of our previous record of the number of moon flowers open at one time. |
| Tuesday’s moon flower at 7:10am, Sept 21:
Click the pictures to enlarge. (Also see references on Indiana Univ and, of course, Wikipedia ) web pages. |
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See my Youtube video of both pre- and post-sunrise shots of our Sept 18 moon flower followed by the same of our Sept 19 moon flower. (The sun comes up from behind the flowers.) After Youtube starts, you can activate the full-screen option by clicking an icon in lower right which looks like one of these:   |