Daisies, River Forks Park, Roseburg, Oregon 2011

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Boring...

Yet again, I've got nothing.  Yesterday seems to have been an aberrant with my posting of links, photos and videos, and in two postings no less.  What I should have done, in retrospect, was save the second post until today.  Hindsight.

Everyone across the internet is doing the "Top Ten...whatevers" for the 2010 year.  Mostly boring to me.  Haven't we already read/heard/seen these stories..??  Not many are worthy of an encore or recap.  I did find one or two interesting things, however...

Where is this..??  Do you know..??  I was just astounded by this photo of...


...Mars.  Can you believe that..??  Doesn't it look like trees growing down there..??  Apparently, it's ice crystals from beneath the sand dunes.  As the sand blows, it uncovers them.  If the dunes weren't pink, I would swear this was a shot of eastern Washington State, around the Palouse; or somewhere up the Gorge towards The Dalles, in Oregon.  If you want to see more, check out Discover Magazine's Astronomy Pictures of 2010.

Then, there's this solar eclipse photo, taken in January, 2010 of a jet taking off from Bangkok, Thailand.  Leave it to National Geo...and the most amazing photographer.  There are more pictures on their website, if you want to follow the link and while away some time this morning.



Ozzy and I just returned from a walk up the road to the dead end.  It's a warm, though misty and snow-melting morning.  That doesn't bode well for the afternoon, unfortunately.  Looks like a Swamp Walk at the park is on the horizon.

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