Just read the news release about the Hubble Space Telescope directly observing a planet around Fomalhaut, which is another star! "Seeing is believing", or at least gives a big reality boost to all the indirect observations of extrasolar planets ( Read more... )

I have come to believe more and more that magic is all around us, it just takes the right frame of mind to see it and appreciate it ( Read more... )

I have been a bit of a fool ( Read more... )

I know I have a thing about spiders. Probably weird (certainly if you ask Sally, and you may very well agree wholeheartedly with her ( Read more... )

I had a beautiful hike yesterday afternoon at Harriman Park, at the time Kat was having her garden party for a dozen or so of her friends in our backyard. Kat was fine with me leaving, and Sally and Lizzy went to Manhattan to a Bastille Day (a day early!:) festival. So it was a good time to be out in the woods ( Read more... )

I heard my first cicada yesterday ( Read more... )

Sally is the big gardener at our house, so when she asked if I would help her dead-head some of the hanging plants I somewhat reluctantly agreed ( Read more... )

With the past few weekends either much too hot or too rainy, the back lawn has had a respite from my lawn mowing ( Read more... )

On my walk at Harriman Park today, I followed some "unmarked" paths as well as some marked ones.  I find it fun!  It is a little more challenging than following the marked trails, there are fewer or no people on them, they go through interesting places in the park, and often provide nice loop connectors so I do not have to re-trace my steps to get ( Read more... )

The brown bunny is back!  (Or at least, a close cousin!  ;)  But the bunny seemed to recognize me when I first saw him a few weeks ago, after the grass on the lawn had come back out ( Read more... )