Now that the Christmas decorations are all taken down and put away until next year, I needed something bright and cheerful in the great room vase. So, I bought a handful of some yellow and orange Gerbera daisies and some white tulips. They look very nice in the vase. Click on the image to enlarge.
It’s getting down to the wire for charitable donations for the 2012 tax year. Today, we made good on a promise to help out Soldiers Angels. In particular, we donated to the team Project Valour-IT to honor our Friend and fellow blogger Major Chuck Ziegenfuss, whom we met at the Gun Blogger Rendezvous a few years back.
Click on the animation to go to the Soldiers Angels home page.
Click on THIS LINK to go to the Valour-IT donation page.
There is a small palo verde tree on the road in front of our house. Starting last year, I put some red ornaments in this nice little green tree for Christmas. Click on the image to enlarge.
Actually, it is one of several ringed planets but the only one whose rings are visible in a telescope on Earth. Today’s APOD posted this wonderful false-color image of Saturn as seen by the Cassini spacecraft in orbit there. Note the backside of the planet (with the sun almost directly on the other side of Saturn) where the solar light reflected from the rings illuminate the dark side.
Imagine being on the dark side of the planet and observing the rings from that position. Click on the image to enlarge.
Image courtesy NASA and Cassini.
In addition to the bronze sculpture I posted last month, Double D Western World, a mercantile here in Wickenburg, had another sculpture in front of their store. I don’t know the title of this one, but it appears to be a couple of kids watering their horse. The plumbing at the bottom suggests that this one, like the other, is set up for water flowing from the pump into the bucket. Click on the image to enlarge.
One of our gun bloggers thinks the administration welcomes all the hype over the Newtown massacre to hide their failure with the economy and the “fiscal cliff.” The media, of course, are complicit in the ruse. It serves two agendas: hide the fail and implement gun control.
Via The Patriot Post.