R.M.S. Titanic: An Exhibition and a Cemetery
The RMS Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic in 1912. Here is a look at a museum experience about the ship and about a graveyard for victims.
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On July 29, 2025 I visited Buffalo Point on Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake. The hike is a 2.0-kilometer (1.25-mile) moderate ascent. White Rock Bay as Seen from Buffalo Point Smoke from a wildfire along Arizona’s Grand Canyon dulled the scene. The edge of the clouds mark the tailend of a […]
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Carol and I were on a vacation in southeastern Virginia during the first week of October 2024. On the second day we were sightseeing along the National Colonial Historic Parkway near Jamestown. I could not resist this pullout that typified the Eastern Deciduous Forest, the ecosystem that covers the eastern third of the continental US. […]
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On December 18, 2024, I visited the Great Salt Lake. This time I loitered on the seven-mile (eleven-kilometer) causeway that connects Antelope Island to the mainland. Here is what I saw: Sky over the Great Salt Lake’s Farmington Bay Looking south from the Antelope Island causeway at noon at the winter solstice. Look how […]
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On November 5, 2024, I was preparing dinner with short breaks to stare out the window. Suddenly the light changed dramatically. A snow squall was moving in from the Great Salt Lake. I grabbed my camera and hurried to the front yard. In the five minutes between 3:57 and 4:02, I captured twenty images. Here […]
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Comets have fascinated me since Comet Mrkos in 1957. When Mrkos appeared, I was a child in the then farm town of Layton, Utah. My father had roused me and my siblings at 4:00 a.m. to see Mrkos. The long tail of the comet shot straight up like a search light into black sky from […]
Read more "Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS"Partial Eclipse of the Moon
Partial eclipse of the Moon
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Lady Finger Point is a spit on Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake. Carol and I picnicked there on August 14, 2024. The day was hot and the Sun was bright. Smoke from wildfires around the western United States varied depending on the direction one looked. Here are some scenes from our outing: […]
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The Big Boy is the most elegant steam locomotive ever built. In 1941 the Union Pacific Railroad commissioned these engines to meet new demand for cross-country freight service as the Great Depression receded. The Ogden, Utah railyards, the largest between Chicago and Oakland, were pressured by a geographical fact: The rail line eastbound from Ogden […]
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Nevada State Route 233 extends 35 miles (56 kilometers). Oasis, a remote exit from Interstate 80, marks the south end of SR-233, and the the Utah border marks the north end. The highway bisects the Goshute Valley and the Tecoma Valley. Both valleys are features of the Great Basin Desert in Elko County, Nevada. On […]
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