She doesn’t get to do this very often, but yesterday, we took ‘Bear’ for a drive to several stops on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. She enjoyed exploring the Neptune Fountain at the Palos Verdes Estates civic center, the Point Vicente Interpretive Center (shown in the picture) and a couple of other stops on the peninsula.
I think she was happy, but it must have tired her out – all that doggie exploration – because she slept most of the morning today.
We’ve blogged about this place before. The son of Frank Lloyd Wright, Lloyd Wright, designed this unique chapel. Located just west of Portuguese Bend, the Chapel has been in continuous operation for many years on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
This is a picture of Catalina Island taken from an area just behind the chapel. We couldn’t go into the chapel while we were there today since there was a wedding in progress. What a great day to get married in this beautiful setting!
Today was an extraordinary day. Temperatures were near 90° F. and the skies were clear. We drove most of the way around Palos Verdes Peninsula before finally returning home for BBQ. It was also Armed Forces Day. We will be posting on that tomorrow sometime.
Click on the image for a full-sized view.
Yesterday, April 6th, was California Poppy Day. I have many poppies like this one now showing in the back yard. I sure do love spring and the flowers that come with it.
We had a busy day, today. After attending the Mass of the Holy Sacrament (virtual via satellite TV), we went to target practice, then took a drive, came home, cleaned the guns and prepared Easter dinner.
This picture has nothing to do with that, but I wanted to put something on about Easter Sunday.
Which part of the chocolate bunnies do you eat first?
Bear celebrated St. Patrick’s Day by briefly posing with this shamrock headgear. I say briefly because each time I put this on her, she would quickly manage to get it off.
Well, a day early, but we celebrated with our traditional Irish treat:
What else?
In keeping with the last nerdy post about mathematics, I would like to wish you a happy PI (3.14..) day! In my career in aerospace and also as a pilot and flight instructor, I use the quantity PI (approximately equal to 3.14159265) for all kinds of engineering and navigation applications.
In the excerpt below is the notion that you can approximate the value of PI by throwing needles or frozen hot dogs. Don’t laugh, it works – a group of us a long time ago in a lab at work performed the experiment using tongue depressors. The method uses the laws of probability to approximate PI when you divide the number of throws by the number of times a tossed object crosses one of the reference lines. The lines are set at intervals equal to the length of the objects being thrown.
From SpaceWeather.com
HAPPY PI DAY: March 14th (3.14) is PI day and all around the world mathematicians are celebrating this compelling and mysterious constant of Nature. PI appears in equations describing the orbits of planets, the colors of auroras, the structure of DNA. It’s everywhere.
Humans have been struggling to calculate PI for thousands of years. Divide the circumference of a circle by its diameter; the ratio is PI. Sounds simple, but the devil is in the digits. While the value of PI is finite (a smidgen more than 3), the decimal number is infinitely long:
3.1415926535897932384626433832795
02884197169399375105820974944592307
81640628620899862803482534211706…moreSupercomputers have succeeded in calculating PI to more than 200 billion digits and they’re still crunching. The weirdest way to compute PI: throw needles at a table or frozen hot dogs on the floor. Party time!
