Nature
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@nuleafjhawk Sorry for your loss, sincerely. During the freeze of 2021 I lost 17 really tall palm trees that were behind my garden/solarium. Not to mention the many limbs that came down from my live oaks. It hurts to lose a friend!
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Voyager 1 is getting close to reaching one light DAY after travelling all this time through interstellar space. It boggles the mind what technology from September of 1977 has produced. The distance of Voyager 1 from Earth is currently 25,454,331,948.8 kilometers, equivalent to 170.1516995509 Astronomical Units. Light takes 23h 35m 6.512s to travel from Voyager 1 and arrive to us. I follow it on Twitter and it posts it's location throughout the day. On the flip side, it is such an incredibly small distance to cover over all this time when compared to the distance of neighboring stars. It's simultaneously a major achievement and very humbling. Your phone charger is smarter than the computer on Voyager 1.
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Another picture of Hattie under the bird feeder, apparently eating the shells from the black sunflower seeds in the feeder. The birds do NOT like her being there. Male Cardinals dive bomb her.
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I worked with an attorney who was on the Board of Directors of McDonald Observatory and he would bring me 11 x 17 official and stunning photographs from Hubble Telescope along with reading material. I have dozens of the most famous of its findings. On the back or a slip of paper inside would reveal what it is. This below is the globular cluster NGC 6723, also known as the Chandelier Cluster. Each of its ‘lightbulbs’ is an individual star 27,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius (the Archer)
Globular clusters contain some of the oldest stars in our galaxy 
with some clusters nearly as old as the Universe itself! Exactly how globular clusters form is not yet known...... but observing programmes using Hubble have revealed clues to the history of globular clusters like NGC 6723, which appears to have undergone two periods of star formation.
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NASA just announced that #Voyager 1 will reach 1 light-day from Earth at 12:16:07 a.m. CST on November 18, 2026. At that point, any signal we send to the spacecraft will take 24 hours to reach it. (2 days before my birthday!)
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Hard work = these beauties! Happy Saturday
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Loons at Stormy Lake put on a show this week. Brought some diversions from the trauma of dad passing. Several days ago an eagle dive bombed a loon with young ones. Because of the young ones they won't dive and leave them unprotected and the eagle caught a loon. It was too heavy to lift so it was seen swimming across the lake, almost a mile, dragging it in the water. Amazing!
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@wissox83 wow thats crazy nature!
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@wissox83 It is such a struggle with life and death in the animal world. I cringe when I see the fox with a lizard, but a road runner with a snake makes me happy, now a LOON!! That was something to see.
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@RockChalkinTexas-0 I’ve been watching Americas on nbc on thursdays, it’s like national geo. Back in the day. Narrated by tom hanks. Cool show before at 7, back in the Dino days, surving earth.
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@crimsonblu22 I like those shows too but David Attenboroughs are just amazing.
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@wissox83 I never pass up a Planet Earth series by Sir David, or any of the others he has done.
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Last year we had a robin drop one egg in a wren's nest. It stayed there until the others had hatched and I think she abandoned it for a racoon to find it. I only see robins during migration, and it's only for a couple of days at the most. In Minnesota when you saw a robin it meant spring was here. Anybody else have local tall tales?
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@RockChalkinTexas-0 I'm not sure of the origin of the mascot but the town we lived in in Wisconsin had a mascot of the Red Robin.
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We are busy making chocolate chip cookies so will just post this!
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Spent the last two mornings cleaning up the garden and got this photo of the sotol in bloom again!
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The sunflower patch is succumbing to the heat and bugs have eaten the leaves.
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Happy 250th Birthday America! I flew to Philadelphia at the end of June 1976 to visit my BF who had moved from Leavenworth to Bethlehem PA for all the bicentennial festivities. This is a throwback to my trip to see the Liberty Bell and a shirt I bought. Saw the tall ships parade and it was awe inspiring. Went down to Cape May and spent the day walking the beach. Was a magical time and I have lifetime memories of the joyful moments that were everywhere you went. Have a great day!
P.S. Congratulations to Travis and Taylor
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Here's a 2,000 piece puzzle we worked on this week. It is called Radiant Rainbow Mandalas. It was a tantalizing array of colors.
What Is the Purpose of a Mandala?
Ever since their creation, mandalas were used as symbols for meditation, concentration, protection, a personal maturity process, and healing. Different religions, philosophies, and cultures, all use different techniques of mediation when using mandalas.
Using a mandala can help you to find yourself, or the path you wish to travel.
Spending time cultivating harmony and peace within your heart. From this, you can find gentle words and thoughts that can show you new paths or directions. If you are passionate about coloring and want to try something different, try to color a mandala and find the purpose of a mandala for yourself. Have a look at the benefits of coloring a mandala. They are widely available for about any design you could imagine.
