10 Most Magnificent Trees in the World.

This Aspen grove is actually 1 tree!
All these are actually branches of the same tree.

See all of them at neatorama

Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn

March 27, 2007

Pasadena, Calif. -- An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA's Cassini mission.

NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft imaged the feature over two decades ago. The fact that it has appeared in Cassini images indicates that it is a long-lived feature. A second hexagon, significantly darker than the brighter historical feature, is also visible in the Cassini pictures. The spacecraft's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer is the first instrument to capture the entire hexagon feature in one image.

"This is a very strange feature, lying in a precise geometric fashion with six nearly equally straight sides," said Kevin Baines, atmospheric expert and member of Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "We've never seen anything like this on any other planet. Indeed, Saturn's thick atmosphere where circularly-shaped waves and convective cells dominate is perhaps the last place you'd expect to see such a six-sided geometric figure, yet there it is."

my day begins.

It's National Velociraptor Awareness Month!

Velociraptor attack is the 3rd leading cause of death for men age 27-29. However, everyone must think about the implications of velociraptors: young and old, men, women and transgendered persons.

The American Society for Velociraptor Attack Prevention is a bi-partisan group of professionals, dedicated to the diffusion of knowledge concerning velociraptor attack prevention.


Velociraptor compared in size to a human.
Courtesy: Wikipedia

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The American Society for Velociraptor Attack Prevention

My day looked a lot like this today.

Here's my Mothers Irish tree.

This is a cloud view of my poetry written over the last 5 years. (at least the ones I posted)
The larger the word the more times I used it.

able abuse afraid alone anger angry away bad badly becomes being body bonnie boy chaos church colored control cracked dark dear deep died done egg everything evil faith fear feel felt fully god going gone grief guess happened happy hope house ian john journey kids knowing lemonade life light looking lost love maybe mind miss moment myself night nothing once order pain parade parents path people please posting rain reason saying seed seems shell sitting sleep somehow something sometimes soul step stop sun taught teacher tears things think thoughts tired today union victim virus whites wishing world wrote years yet

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my friend Mike was visiting us from Istanbul,
He brought me the accouterments for making Turkish coffee,
And some great Turkish coffee.

He then taught me how to make it.

He said that it is very hard to master and that a perfectly poured coffee has a thin layer of foam covering the top of the coffee completely.

Well, I did it!
Here it is, the perfectly poured Turkish coffee.

This is Music and dance that nears perfection!

Glenn Miller, Dorothy Dandritch and the Nicholas brothers.
Doing the Chatanooga choo-choo

Giant blue herons nesting in Chatham

Sunrise in Mendham.

It's beautiful,
It's cold!
It's 6:30 in the morning!

How many countries can you name?

You get 10 minutes and you have to know how to spell them!

I got 69 out of 245, can you do better?
Let me know how many you got.

Click here to test your skill.