The winter forest in moonlight. Click on the image for a larger view.
Category Archives: Life at Home
Snow Day
Our forest in Maine on a snow day. The beech tree is remarkable in that it does not lose its foliage until the next spring with the growth of the new. Click on the image for a larger view.
Kai
We lost Kai nine years ago on August 19th. 2011 marked our first winter together in Maine. Click on the image for a larger view.
Life at Home
Kansas City has a stay-in-place order for the Covid-19 response to increase social distancing. Hikari, our Newfoundland, certainly has been happier with both her parents around. We hope our readers are safe and not impacted too much by this pandemic. Click on the image for a larger view.
Canopy
The wind in the canopy of our Maine forest. Click on the image for a larger view.
The Speeding Earth
The author Chet Raymo in his book The Soul of the Night describes the motion of a child as she is knocked into the air by a collision with a skateboarder:
During the time the child was in the air, the spinning Earth carried her half a mile to the east. The motion of the Earth around the sun carried her back again forty miles westward. The drift of the solar system among the stars of the Milky Way bore her silently twenty miles toward the star Vega. The turning pinwheel of the Milky Way Galaxy carried her 300 miles in a great circle about the galactic center. After that huge flight through space she hit the ground and bounced like a rubber ball.
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Moon
This is not of the lunar eclipse we had this weekend; the weather was not in our favor (we were able to view a lunar eclipse in Maine however). This moon is far more usual. Click on the image for a larger view.
Summer Dreams
I have been thinking about warm summer nights in Maine. The rustle of the wind through the canopy makes the sky feel all that closer. It is not the awesome spectacle, but the warm breeze that carries a secret.
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Silence
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Forest Dreams, Part Three
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