Cap'n Bob & the Damsel

Farewell to the Holiday Season

Well, the holidays are over for a while. For most people, the next holiday will be on Memorial Day which will be celebrated on Monday, May 30th, 2011. For us, we don’t have that schedule since we’re retired, but the busiest times are before us now, what with furnishing and landscaping a new home and preparing our old one for eventual sale.

I removed the poinsettias from the house and will plant them in the garden soon. I took this photo while this one was still in the pot. Click on the image to enlarge.

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02 Jan 2011 by Culture Home & Garden Photography

New Home Status Slideshow

I threw this slideshow together to show to our family before heading back to Wickenburg next week. I’m posting it here as well as on the family website for posterity.

You will recognize some of the pictures we previously posted here with a few extras thrown in like a nearby landmark railroad station, our tankless water heater and some desert critters. You can pause the slideshow by rolling your mouse cursor over the images and resume by rolling the cursor out of the animation.

01 Jan 2011 by Arizona Retirement

Finished Granite

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Remember the post we wrote about “Shopping for Granite?” Well this is how beautiful it turned out in the master bath. The same pattern is in both bathrooms and the kitchen. I love it. Click on the image to enlarge. Click on this link for a closer look at the grain in the little bathroom and on this link to see the granite in the kitchen.

30 Dec 2010 by Arizona Retirement

First Light – Southwestern Sconces

night-sconce.jpgThe final inspection is now complete on our new Arizona home. The contractor poured the concrete for the driveway yesterday and we had the first bed delivered to one of the little bedrooms. Things are moving right along.

The outdoor sconces are all installed and they are so beautiful! I took a picture of one of them on the shady side of the house with the light turned on and Bob doctored the resulting photo to simulate twilight. This is how they should look when the sun goes down. Click on the image to enlarge.

29 Dec 2010 by Arizona Home & Garden Photography Retirement

Non-Random Galactic Distribution

The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), using data from ground based telescopes in Arizona and Chile, plotted the locations of over a million galaxies. The amazing result shows that the locations of these galactic structures with respect to each other is that they are all locked into a gravitational dance that produces galaxies, galaxy groups and even larger superstructures in the universe. Read the article at Astronomy Picture of the Day.

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Image courtesy NASA/2MASS. Click image to enlarge.

27 Dec 2010 by Astronomy Science

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