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Tao Quotes

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
Lao Tzu
Quotes from Secret Chalice

Ephemeris

Taurus
Sun in Taurus
12 degrees
Taurus
Moon in Taurus
23 degrees
New Moon
New Moon
29 days old

Various Quotes

“The future depends on what we do in the present.” — Mahatma Gandhi

nasa

Composite of a Series of Images Taken From Space Aboard the Station

 
This is a composite of a series of images photographed from a mounted camera on the Earth-orbiting International Space Station, from approximately 240 miles above Earth. Space station hardware in the foreground includes the Mini-Research Module (MRM1, center) and a Russian Progress vehicle docked to the Pirs Docking Compartment (right). Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit said of the photographic techniques used to achieve the images: "My star trail images are made by taking a time exposure of about 10 to 15 minutes. However, with modern digital cameras, 30 seconds is about the longest exposure possible, due to electronic detector noise effectively snowing out the image. To achieve the longer exposures I do what many amateur astronomers do. I take multiple 30-second exposures, then 'stack' them using imaging software, thus producing the longer exposure." A total of 47 images photographed by the astronaut-monitored stationary camera were combined to create this composite. Image Credit: NASA
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2009 November: Critter Sightings

The Problem with the Holidays, is that everything is put off until time allows & time dost-not-often allow.

Trying to Remember November is like waking from a night’s sleep, stiff from dreaming too much, with only vague images indicating that you were dreaming at all. Good thing I took pictures. That puts some of it together [...]

2009 July: Critter sightings

July went by pretty quickly. It was so much like June. The rain was the same. The nights a bit chillier, the days slightly warmer. Except for the last week of the month. The days have hit the 80’s (F).

The mornings start of with a chorus of mockingbirds and woodpeckers, singing praises to the sun. [...]