Musings

7:04am beauty.

7:10am in the opposite direction.

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The dawn color emphasized that I left wet-stuff on the line overnight. Made no difference, I’m sure.

Dried ferns…on the way to composting.

Evening reflection….

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I’m offering another lovely morning wide shot of the lake.

Okay, here’s something new for this blahg. It’s a Harley-Davidson Freewheeler (aka three-wheeler) with a fairing with a screen and an add-on phone mount and short-but-long-enough charging cable. All these options surprised me; I think of Harleys as two-wheelers. I’m sooooo out of date.

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Late morning, we drove north toward the moon.

Late afternoon, I found this very-orange canna lily. Little did I know that the originals are native to tropical New World areas.

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Twilight and sunset glow…the wrong part of the sky for me to see stars and about forty-five minutes before last night’s star picture….

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When I stepped outside to take this photo, I thought the sky was a bit fuzzy…then, I looked at it on the laptop, and, wow—stars throughout the blue!

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Tonight, the sky showed some color! 8:31pm.

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Since the early morning photo wasn’t interesting, I decided to try early evening…this was 8:37pm. The clouds suggest the meteorologists are right, that we may get some rain overnight. Ho-hum.

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I stepped out for one of those pretty-sky early morning shots, this time at 6:45am. Not so pretty as last winter. I’m blaming it on the mugginess and oak trees and chemistry turning the lovely color streaks of months ago into blue-bland.

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There’re two things about deep in the earth that I read today, perhaps three, depending on how you count them.

Two volcanoes are active…Etna, now, and Kīlauea (Halema‘uma‘u vents), until late yesterday.

Also, and this blew me away, scientists who study the deep biosphere argue that 10–50 % of the earth’s biomass is there—deep, deep, miles deep—where there’s no photosynthesis. Wow.

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