Bend
Flowering Dogwood
Just along an evening walk at Five Rivers Environmental Education Center.
Taken on Monday May 6, 2024 at Five Rivers Environmental Education Center.Waterfall
Chester Arthur’s Grave
Lunch time the other day, out exploring the Albany Rural Cemetery, I stopped by and visited President Chester Arthur's Grave. He is a very distant relative, probably only discovered by my dad's sluthing of years ago.
Taken on Tuesday May 7, 2024 at Albany Rural Cemetery.Chewing over the possiblity of going somewhere tonight to see the Northern Lights
With some clearing this evening, especially heading into the early morning hours it might be a good night to look for the northern lights, particularly as they are expected to be fairly strong due to geomagnetic storm underway.
Today’s Almanac for Sunday May 12
Today’s Almanac
Night before dawn is 5 hours and 3 minutes,
Dawn starts at 5:03 am and runs for 30 minutes,
Sunrise is at 5:33 am which is 6 hours and 26 minutes before noon,
High noon, the transit of the sun, is at 12:51 pm,
From twelve noon to the sunset at 8:09 pm is 8 hours and 9 minutes,
Dusk lasts for 29 minutes concluding at 8:40 pm,
Leaving 3 hours and 19 minutes until midnight.
Truth in Advertising
With all apologies to P.J. O’Rourke and Mario Cuomo, I suggest the major political parties rename themselves to:
- The Fun Suckers
- The Big Mean
This would comply with recent regulations put forward by the “The Fun Suckers” to comply with recently adopted Truth in Advertising regulations because we don’t want our cars to burn us to death when they crash.