I saw the comet -- barely -- last night. I think looking before the end of nautical twilight is probably too challenging at this point. It's coming down in brightness, so  not as dramatic as a week ago. Also, most photos are timed exposures.  As the moon rose, i could see how the contrast with the night sky changed. The moon rises later tonight, so ( Read more... )

I was curious about the weather that happened in Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas yesterday, happy there wasn't a headline about a tornado flattening some town on the NY Times. Ah-ha! https://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/archive/event.php?date=20240506  That gives an ( Read more... )

Busy, i presume with focus on the eclipse road trip planning after a weekend with family. I am also learning substack, as a place to share longform posts under my public name, and instagram, to weasel my way into my niblings' lives. Eldest nibling is not found on Instagram yet. So it goes ( Read more... )

Christine is being particularly thoughtful as we approach holidays, it seems. She encouraged me to buy one of the giant pomegranates at the grocery last week, and i have been enjoying the glistening red jewels with my breakfast since then ( Read more... )

The past few mornings have been clear when i went out with starry, starry skies. And it's quiet: the temperatures have changed. I think this was the first morning when even waiting and focusing imy listening, i didn't hear frogs or insects, even from over the crest of the hill and the creek behind our house. It may be that i just know from the map ( Read more... )

"Hottest single days globally on record. Drawing on multi-source analyses from NOAA of daily global temperature that extend back to 1979, the Climate Reanalyzer website shows that July 3, 2023, was the warmest single day on record - only to be toppled by July 4, tied on July 5, and broken again on July 6...." -- Read more... )

Early Monday morning was a frost, 32° for an hour plus. It just hit 32° again. So glad I am not banking on my berries for any cash ( Read more... )

I had misread the temps on Saturday and covered the berries i could for that evening, but it was low 40s. In the past seven days, the coldest was Monday's low in the early morning at 39°F (almost 4°C). We've had some balmy days, too ( Read more... )

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The autumn color around the house does not begin with bright splashes of color. When i think of planting things, fall color is on my list. Taken all together, the leaves are thinning and there's a yellow like late afternoon light in the leaves - -and sometimes it is late afternoon light, and sometimes it is the leaf change ( Read more... )