i saw another fireball. wha huh?! it happened. wednesday night. 9:33 p.m. bedroom window. you don't know how bad i wanted someone to sock in the arm and say, "can you effing believe that?!" but there wasn't anyone, just me. so i said it to myself. and now i'm saying it to you.
CAN YOU @$%&*! BELIEVE THAT?!
a wonderous & rare nightsky event. this fireball came down in a nearly vertical – 180 degree – angle, unlike the one of last saturday, which by the way, 14 other people reported up and down the state of california!
it had a tail that was 4x as long as the previous fireball. and it had blue & green colors that i hadn't noticed in the other one. i didn't report it to the AMS, but i'm reporting it here. to you!
because of these events i will forever think of my beach hideaway as fireball cottage.
my days there were languid. full of reading, watercolors, writing, and thinking.
watching the sea & sky change colors.
dusk, dawn, and everything in between.
i've already reserved my spot for next year. same place, same time.
I copied this from the American Meteor Society's website:
Several thousand meteors of fireball magnitude occur in the Earth’s atmosphere each day. The vast majority of these, however, occur over the oceans and uninhabited regions, and a good many are masked by daylight. Those that occur at night also stand little chance of being detected due to the relatively low numbers of persons out to notice them.
Additionally, the brighter the fireball, the more rare is the event. As a general thumb rule, there are only about 1/3 as many fireballs present for each successively brighter magnitude class, following an exponential decrease. Experienced observers can expect to see only about 1 fireball of magnitude -6 or better for every 200 hours of meteor observing, while a fireball of magnitude -4 can be expected about once every 20 hours or so.
I’d love to have the information about the cottage. It is so beautiful! I can’t tell you how much I love your blog. Thank you!
What a beautiful, relaxing place! Would really like to recieve information about “Fireball Cottage” to plan my get away. thank you!
I am so glad there a few awake souls out there to see the magnificence of the universe and share with those of us caught in the glare of city lights. Please send me cottage info. Love you and your blog – and your art…
Can you please send me the information on Fireball Cottage. It looks so amazing!
wendy,
a journal is whatever you want it to be. i keep a written journal for private writing and occasionally, but not always, scribble on my sketchbook pages. there aren’t rules. do whatever makes you happy. writing is strictly optional in a VISUAL journal. cool huh?
This fireball cottage is heavenly!! I showed your earlier posts to my husband, and we want to go there!!! It’s like a dream. But I’m afraid it is not feasible for us (we are in the Netherlands…). I’m happy you will go back. Please keep the pics coming. I will keep dreaming. And perhaps paint the view from your photos to pretend I’m there.
I realize my journaling pages are not looking like journal pages, with comments and writing. I almost don’t want to spoil the page after I am done. I did make one page with some writing and it is not my most favorite page. Even though I do not write on my journal pages, I have always considered them journal pages. Am I wrong? Perhaps, it is a process, and the words will eventually spill out of me.
A fireball showed up on my IPhone, the night of the Full Moon, when you said you saw a fireball. I will post it. I was taking photos of my progress with your Stenciling class. I hope it is a good omen.
I’m not surprised at all that you saw with your very own eyes a 2nd, more spectacular fireball. You should know by now that these kind of events are reserved especially for you by whom ever is in charge, at the helm, the one who makes sure that such events don’t go unseen. You after all, can be counted on to keep track of these things, the things that would go otherwise unnoticed. Seriously, not likely all that black friday shenanigans that kept everyone out on the road or in malls for a good part of the weekend, who would have noticed such an occurrence if not you, whom else could we count on to recount the beauty of a fireball streaking across the sky. I also don’t know who else would sit and keep track of how many colors the ocean is, that a rainbow of hues are alive with every swell and wave. Many thanks for keeping me in the know…I’ve seen 2 in my lifetime so far and both times I couldn’t believe how amazing they are… I am pretty pleased you were there to catch the show, brief as it is but the memory, that sticks with ya forever…so YUP, I can ‘effing’ believe!!!!!
Oh, you read “Paris Letters”! – Mary, the Cottage, where the author got the idea of the “Painted Letters” belongs to dear friends of us, and it is my favourite place to spend the summer Holidays (for many years now!). Percy Kelly is the English artist who wrote and painted the most amazing letters to his penfriend. There are two books about his letters – both are wonderful. I have put some photos on my blog recently, because a friend of mine challenged me to Exchange similar letters.
Ahhh it looks so peaceful… here am I supposedly packing to go from Queensland summer to English winter. Heading over to farewell my Mum, so another reason to seek tranquility. What have I done this morning? Planted out some flowers in the garden. Updated my driving licence, changed my dental appointment to next year.Wept a little upon reading kind messages from friends. Seems a perfectly logical way to behave to me..
Was thinking how nice it would be to sit in that chair under the umbrella. Then I noticed two of your books are the same ones I’m reading right now: Paris Letters & Maira Kalman’s new book, only my view isn’t nearly as nice as yours. Haha. Thanks for the soothing scenes & am glad you booked for next year.
Your slice of heaven looks lovely. Please send info. Is it on Earth??? Barbara
I kept checking back to your blog to see if you had posted anything new. Got my reward today! You’re too busy having some fun, reading, relaxing, sketching and watching for UFOs and other objects hurtling through the sky! I read Paris Letters, by the way, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I am going to France next May so it only whet my appetite for anything French!
About those colors, just wanted to say that on our drive home yesterday from my mother-in-law’s house in Mississippi, it was late in the day, sun dipping into the west. It gave that amazing yellow glow to everything the rays touched. I just love that color as it reminds me of the changing season from fall to winter. It is a fleeting moment, really, and a sunset like that doesn’t happen every day. Everything has to be just right. Even without a calendar, without a thermometer, we know time is on the move to the next phase of the year. It is a poignant time but filled with promise, too.
Hope you got your fill of the things you need to refresh yourself, clear your mind of worries and renew yourself to do the things you have to do. That’s what those breaks are all about…time to reflect, relax and then re-enter your daily life that makes the breaks possible! 🙂