Hello Readers, Carol and I visited the Outer Banks of North Carolina in September 2026. As many of you know, the Outer Banks is a string of sand dune islands off the coast of North Carolina. Corolla, pronounced kuh-RAHL-uh, is the northernmost town on the Outer Banks. The pavement ends in Corolla… …then “the road” […]
Read more "An Afternoon with the Horses of Corolla Beach"The Moon slides in front of Venus in a rare daytime occultation.
Read more "The Moon Hides Venus"Hello Readers, For a while I have had the idea of taking photos of the Moon throughout a calendar month. I chose May 2026 because it was a bookend month beginning and ending with full Moons. Every image was captured within 100 meters of my house. From the couple hundred photos, I chose ten for […]
Read more "The Moons of May"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.
Read more "R.M.S. Titanic: An Exhibition and a Cemetery"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 […]
Read more "Questing for Wonder on Antelope Island"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. […]
Read more "Southeastern Virginia: Along the James River"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 […]
Read more "Miscellaneous Views from the Antelope Island Causeway"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 […]
Read more "An Afternoon Snow Squall"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
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