Aside from horsing around in my visual journal, I've been going outside the second it gets dark and looking for my friend Orion in the night sky. If you're in LA, you can see him pretty high in the western sky shortly after dark. The 3 most perfectly lined up stars in the sky. He dips down lower and lower in the sky as the night goes on.
I've also been on the lookout for Saturn which is not so easy for me to
locate. But if I could find it, and had a telescope say, and could
really really get all up in Saturn's business (which I'd like to do) I
could see that its rings are tilted 3 degrees in our direction. WHAT?!
Don't ask me, I just found this out on the Griffith Observatory Sky Report.
I love thinking about the earth tilting on its axis. How the sun moved
north across the celestial equator last Sunday. How fast our little
planet is moving through space. How the universe keeps expanding. Those ginormous rings of Saturn. Big
thoughts in my little head.
while on our sailing trip through the Grenadines Islands this past week, we were mesmerized by the Southern Cross low on the horizon. Lucky me!
jan in ohio
Orion is my favorite. Thanks for reminding me.
Little thoughts … appropriate for the size of my head tonight
This evening I dug way back into the dusty reaches of the pantry cupboard for a jar of black olives to adorn my pizza. There they were… best if used by 12/03. Sure I ate them, olives that should have eaten the year your little craft monkeys were being born. Quality seemed just fine….
Mary Ann Moss,
I have been spending every spare moment the last three days, swimming in your blog. I went ALL the way back. I had subscribed to it several months ago, (google reader) but since I follow about 350+ blogs, I had not really, totally succumbed to the beauty of your work. But I have now.
I adored reading about your trip to Italy and we share a love of Astoria and Judy Wise. I love reading about your sisters and your garden and seeing those luscious hibiscus colors.
I was dreaming about the colors you used in the last few journal pages when I woke up this morning. They are brilliant, my dear, brilliant. The shapes and palette, just amazing, and so fun to have been able to see your work evolve over the years on this blog. I just had to say so. Now I will go back to lurking.
Julie Fillo (an artist from Tacoma Washington)
I read yesterday in National Geographic that the Three Gorges Dam in China was going to tilt the earth’s axis a whole INCH! So many things to contemplate, not the least of which are your beautiful journal pages, oh, those swirls!!
Hey, we have a telescope but the skunks come out at night. Now the telescope sits in the house and we can’t see the stars or planets at night. I bought a star in my mothers name for her just before she passed on and it was the best gift I ever gave her. I have the celestial coordinates and can see her star in the beautiful night sky.
I’m wanting to get a telescope now. I had one once upon a time and we’d drive out into the country (this was in the midwest where you could do such a thing) and look at the stars. Well sadly one time we left the telescope on the roof of the car and it was too late. Will peek at the stars tonight!
I too am fascinated by such things as the fact that the Chilean earthquake may have actually changed the tilt of the Earth’s axis. Fascinating!
Orion has always been my favourite. Every autumn I eagerly await his return in the early evening eastern sky. It’s like an old friend come to visit again.
Erin in Morro Bay
from January until now i can lay in my bed at night and watch Orion glide across the heavens…..it is the easiest constellation to find for children so both my kids used it for their early science fair projects…..you can’t start too early showing younglings the magical amazing mystery of it all…………….
missy from the bayou
I feel slightly tilted myself
Hey, we are all made of stardust…