Itchy Scratchy

This month at Bothell, Washington’s famed Country Village shopping center, two reindeer are greeting visitors before they suit up for their Christmas Eve flight with Santa. At first I thought Dasher (or Dancer?) was using the friendly neighborhood horse statue to itch her head, but reindeer evidently rub against available objects to remove velvet from […]

Slooh & Santa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKHfmV2k-Pk From Slooh.com, Santascope Provides Live Coverage Of Santa Over The Full Moon On Christmas Eve: Children around the world can capture some unique Christmas magic in a gift from Slooh. …Slooh has a special Christmas treat for our viewers. The Full Moon will be high in the sky during Santa’s trip, and Slooh astronomers say they […]

Winter Solstice

Dude, I was there. Well, a friend told me solstice was technically just before 10 Pacific time last night, and this is one letter off, but you should celebrate solstice for a full 24 hours, like a holiday, right? Washington State actually has a Stonehenge at Maryhill near the Columbia Gorge. The Sam Hill built it […]

The Pargan Kelpie

Several days ago this headline on Fox News caught my eye, Tourist captures image of mysterious sea monster off Grecian coastline. Harvey Robertson was on a boat cruise off the coast of Parga, sailing through sea caves with his family. He was initially just trying to capture the unusual color of the surrounding water with his […]

The Wonders of White Noise

In the course of our lives we will inevitably run into a circumstance in which we desperately need quiet but don’t have it. One way of creating a more controlled environment in which we can study, sleep, work, build tall towers out of overcooked breakfast sausages, or otherwise function is to utilize white noise. This […]

Moonrise Monday

This is magnificent. The magic continues. I was astounded by the size of the moon as it came over the eastern horizon tonight. Supermoon: The Legend Continues. We are having unseasonably warm clear weather here, which isn’t helping our drought, but is providing utterly glorious views of the night sky. If you’d like to know […]

The Morning After

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The Harvest Blood Supermoon!

You can watch the September 27th, 2015 blood supermoon live on Slooh.com now (5:00 PDT). You can find out where it’s visible and when to watch it at Space.com (which has all sorts of other tantalizing details as well). Yes, the moon tonight is: -The harvest moon: the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox. -A super moon: […]

Wellington 105 1/2

Recently I was browsing a used bookstore and remembered that I wanted to find a book on the 1910 avalanche in Wellington, Washington. Just then I glanced down and found Gary Krist’s The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America’s Deadliest Avalanche. I’ve been drawn to this place for a while and needed to do […]

Waxing Wednesday

Tonight I was taking pictures of the gorgeous rising moon glowing through an ethereal midnight blue canopy. I was trying out a different camera and was very pleased that I could simply zoom in on the moon and see such detail. What an improvement! This weekend we have a supermoon, technically lunar perigee when the […]

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