Two birds from this week. A robin, at work… …and a hummingbird at home. As for the post title? Here. The sound isn’t great, but I might well prefer this arrangement to the one Julie Andrews sang. Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….
Last Sunday, Cane (the Dee-oh-gee) and I went out for a Sunday walk in the park for the first time since December. Why no outings since then? Well, we got back from Oahu just in time for the weather to shift into a much colder and snowier pattern; where the WNY winter until the end of December had been very mild, it pivoted hard in January to being snowy enough and cold enough for Buffalo to take this year’s title as Snowiest City In America. Oof. Plus, there’s the fact that Cane isn’t a spring chicken anymore. He’s 9-and-a-half as IDown the rabbit hole….
Apparently if your first, middle, or last name is Lyndon, you get free admission to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library. Generations of people named “Baines” are vexed by this, I imagine! Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….
It was very foggy this morning, which made for some interesting visuals with the new LED lightposts at work. I took a photo, naturally: And as an experiment in impressionist mood, I trimmed it and ran it through a Prisma filter: Always interesting, this world of ours. Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….
…but from well before they were my stomping grounds! This is a photo of downtown Olean, NY, from I assume 1954, since that’s when Sabrina came out. This is seventeen years before I was even born, and twenty-seven before I lived there. I saw this on a Facebook group for history and nostalgia of that town, and I really liked this photo for the datedness of it, as well as just a look of Olean when it was newer. When we moved there in 1981 the town still had some vibes of what it had once been (a decent-sized town that wasDown the rabbit hole….
Just because. Rosa not pictured, because she can be hard to get nice pictures of! She keeps a lower profile and when she’s around she’s acting weird. I’ll keep trying, though! Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….
I saw this image on one of NASA’s Flickr streams and I had to share it. It’s a Hubble image of a star-forming region called the “Chameleon Cloud Complex”. Look how gorgeous this is! Here’s some explanation: The segment in this Hubble composite image, called Chamaeleon Cloud I (Cha I), reveals dusty-dark clouds where stars are forming, dazzling reflection nebulae glowing by the light of bright-blue young stars, and radiant knots called Herbig-Haro objects. Herbig-Haro objects are bright clumps and arcs of interstellar gas shocked and energized by jets expelled from infant “protostars” in the process of forming. The white-orangeDown the rabbit hole….
I got nothin’ else today, so here are two dogs… …and two cats. Have a great night, y’all! Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….
Here’s a photo from the Hubble Space Telescope: From NASA’s Flickr stream: In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures a side-on view of NGC 3568, a barred spiral galaxy roughly 57 million light-years from the Milky Way in the constellation Centaurus. In 2014 the light from a supernova explosion in NGC 3568 reached Earth – a sudden flare of light caused by the titanic explosion accompanying the death of a massive star. Photos of entire galaxies always blow my mind a little…and that photo contains many galaxies. What an amazingly grand universe! Share This PostDown the rabbit hole….
We’ve been in something of a Deep Freeze here in the 716 of late, with several days in the last couple of weeks bottoming out near zero, a similar number of days never getting much above ten degrees, and (I think) zero days in which we’ve gone above freezing. We’ve also had a good walloping of snow since January, as if to make up for a very mild December. That’s supposed to end this week with a brief warmup (we actually go into the 40s on Tuesday and Wednesday, so we’ll be able to melt some of this off beforeDown the rabbit hole….