Fall Falling Leaves Moon
After lunch yesterday, Bill Schmidt went on further north, going up highway 95 from Marine toward the use to be town of Franconia, now home to a quirky, but sensational sculpture park. He took a few photographs.
Thanks Bill for sharing lunch and the photographs. BTW: Franconia sculpture park is on 95 just south of Highway 8.
Lughnasa College Moon
This guy was in line ahead of me for a discounted senior ticket:
Samsara
A howl from the West. Our future.
More of samsara.
Dulling the pain of samsara.
Kate chooses her way.
Leaving the earth behind
Mortals
What we become if we remain at the State Fair too long.
Lughnasa Lughnasa Moon
Well. While at Osaka, our local sushi joint, Kate noticed a TV featuring nude bowlers. No, I don’t know why, but Kate went on to point the relation between sushi, raw fish, and nude bowlers, human flesh in the raw. There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than can be counted for in your philosophy.
Before this nude experience, we attended, for the second year, the Nowthen Threshing Show. Here are a few photographs:
Steam engine power take off running a rip saw and a planer at a temporary sawmill.
An old filling station. Compare to the Edward Hopper below.
The theme this year was the world of steam.
We watched the engineers bring this five piston diesel engine to life. It has a huge armature just out of the picture to the left.
This was a surprise, but an artful one. Kate and her much admired red glasses.
Summer’s Last Day Lughnasa Moon
Here a few pictures from this morning’s work in the garden:
Summer Most Heat Moon
A few images from the beet harvest last weekend.
Spring Bee Hiving Moon
Due to technical difficulties (I lost the dongle that connected my camera to the computer.) I’ve only this week gotten pictures from the Tucson trip loaded. Here a few just to give you a flavor of the journey. Click on the photograph to see the whole, this presentation crops them a bit.
Samhain Thanksgiving Moon
All these photographs taken by the Cassini Spacecraft. All either of Saturn or its moons and rings.
I posted this one before in a smaller shot. The title hanging below the lower right portion of Saturn’s rings says, earth-moon.
Enceladus Cassini one of the more active bodies in the solar system (moon of Saturn)
Hiding within Saturn’s rings are thousands maybe millions of tiny moonlets each no more than a kilometer across. Cassini discovered this shortly after arriving at Saturn
Hyperion.
This irregularly shaped moon looks like a honeycomb. It behaves weirdly too neither spinning at a constant rate nor maintaining a constant orientation
Iapetus
late 2010, a massive storm began churning in Saturn’s northern hemisphere. the storm stretched over 190,000 miles.
Saturn Cassini
Saturn’s north pole is home to an enigmatic hexagon
Though they measure nearly 200,000 miles across, the rings are incredibly thin. The main rings average only a few stories tall.
Tiny Mimas is the smallest spherical body in the solar system. Less than 250 miles across
Titan Titan is the only other body in the solar system with liquid on its surface. It has hydrocarbon lakes and seas, shores and rivers, and seasonal rainfall like on Earth
Samhain New (Thanksgiving) Moon
Here some photographs from the bonfire on Samhain.
Fall Harvest Moon
A guy trudged along the same trail I was on, dressed in full camo but with the jacket open and t-shirt spread wide by a belly yearning to be free. “Nice day for a walk,” he said. “Yeah.” He was a bow-hunter with six yellow feathered arrows and a compound bow. When I got back to the parking lot, I saw his truck with a large sticker, Life Begins At Full Draw. A bow hunter with his bow-string fully extended. He had another large sticker, “Born to Fish, Forced to Work.”
A bit further along a Hmong man in blaze orange vest with a rifle slung on right shoulder. “Hi.” “Hi.” Only a moment before meeting the bow hunter I had decided to turn back. I had no orange vest and wanted to be safe.
When I drove up here, only 3 maybe 4 miles from home, I’d discovered that this new state owned land was a conservation area, not a scientific and natural area as I had remembered. The difference is that you can ride snowmobiles at Cedar Creek Conservation Area. You can hunt. You can also hike of course, but…
Armed with my smart phone I looked up Minnesota hunting seasons and found that it was bow season for deer and hunting for small animals and certain birds. Didn’t seem I’d be confused for any of these since bow hunters have to be fairly close and have a good sight line, but out of, as the politicians say, “an abundance of caution,” I had begun my exit.
It was a spectacular day. 64 degrees. Clear skies. A light breeze. Just right. As often happens in northern Anoka county, it felt like up north with woods and meadows. Imagining myself on a trail outside of Ely was easy.
Here are a few things I saw:
