(photo K Burke)
The moon is in it’s waning crescent, 25% illumination.
Man, I got soaked yesterday walking three laps on the afternoon Camino. The weather has been on and off rain, October. But I was perfectly happy watching it out the window as I caught up on Sunday afternoon football on the Tube. But as the walking hour approached I started feeling guilty. So, I got over to the front door, opened it, pushed open the screen door and was observing the velocity of the raindrops hitting the deck. I’m waffling. Then. Then, this hummingbird dove down and hovered 3 feet from my face and looked at me. He seemed to be saying, “Well, we are out here!”
Here I was being lectured by a little bird that weighs a fraction of an ounce. Yea, OK, OK. So I got out there and got soaked good. Got to see a nice buck in the south pasture. He was out there.
And no one else showed up to walk in the rain. But that’s OK, it is what I am here for, well at least part of my duties. And what’s a little water anyway. And it does mean that the local Fire Chief lowered the fire danger from high to low. I could do that job!
Walking in a few minutes. The sky is gray but it is dry for the time being. So we are walking on the Frances again and somewhere around, what was that very first place where we saw the fifty eagles? Orisson! We will be there after our three laps this morning!
fifty eagle loves, Felipé.
The sky was gray here in north east England today too but the nights have been clear and I have been watching Mars as it swings as close to the Earth as it’ll ever get mind that’s still 200 times further away than the Moon in case anyone was thinking about popping across the void!I wonder if any humans will ever do a camino on Mars?when I was a kid I use to think we’d be on Mars by now but the scale of the universe, even our own solar system,is so vast that I have my doubts that we’ll ever send people there.
Kevan ~ Yea, and remember all those old World’s Fair displays where by 2020 we would have flying cars? My old car, I got parts flying off it. Felipé.
My theory is, sadly,by the time humans ,and I assume alien species too,have development space travel they have also exploited,or in our case squandered,most of the resources of their planet so by which time there’s little left to put into fuel intensive space travel given all the fuel needed to get out of the gravity well of their,our,home planet.i suppose if you where really lucky and a star system had two Earth like planets, assuming no natives living on planet two, and you had the technology to get there then you’d have double the time to fan out.the only way I see for us if nuclear fission rockets but most people wouldn’t be very happy with such things taking off in the field next door plus they are probably beyond our present technology?
Kevan ~ Maybe we could fuel it with all the political hot air being produced these days! Oh sorry, I try not to talk politics. But it is hard to ignore in the last month of an election year. Yea, space travel. We had fun getting to the moon! Felipé.
Yes and hot air, from human mouths, spread coronavirus but a certain non medically trained ,but with plenty of home spun ideas on medicine,political nominee in the USA doesn’t seem to agree with this time honoured worldwide notion of the spread of viruses!
Kevan ~ yea, it is all pretty crazy right now. It all fits in with 2020. Felipé.