December, but distinctly November-ish

 

Woke up the other morning to this....

Here we go again! 

More experiments with pie

 This time, for small values of pie....

Climate in 60 years

Thanks to this article in Wired - https://www.wired.com/story/this-scary-map-shows-how-climate-change-will-transform-your-city/ I found this interactive map that shows how climate will change under various scenarios.

https://fitzlab.shinyapps.io/cityapp/

Try it, its fun in an apocalyptic sort of way.  Example result:

Thanks: https://www.umces.edu/al (University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science)

Lets see how this works out next summer

 

Nearby coastal view

 

Fall Mushrooms

 

Its a good year for color, IMO.

 

Fall is knocking on the door. Nosing its way in, actually.

 

Fall View

Kinda pretty

 

Earlier today...

 Before zooming in...

After zooming in...

   

On the road

The Wire Bridge

Had to see it. Also, two picnics yesterday, a personal & family best. 

Tomato (or Tobacco) Hornworm

Today, this gross thing, ate 1/2 of each of two tomatoes.

Yuk.

More Universe Mapping - The South Pole Wall

Here is a map of galaxies and voids. Our galaxy is a tiny little dot someplace in middle. I find this kind of science fascinating, mapping at the largest possible scale. And the science needed to do it is cool as well. Recently, The South Pole Wall was discovered, another structure of galaxies mind-boggling large.  Here is the paper from arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.04414 Read it for cool details!

Here is a map extracted from the PDF. You are someplace in here.

The paper also includes a fun video. Thanks to the researchers who did this.

Near the AT, a morning view from our campsite

Recently, really nearby

After the trim....

Looks a little better

You are here, big picture, latest....

This is very cool! You are here:

This beautiful map comes from galaxymap.org, Twitter: @galaxy_map

Latest experiment in Pie

Worked out well, perhaps too much so.

Needed a trim, progress report soon....

Garden Update

Let's see if this transplant takes....

Thanks Martha!

Newest addition

Some progress in the local garden beds.

(Almost looks like we know what we're doing...)

Some progress in the remote garden beds....

Early look at this year's Community Garden beds - in process

And the rhubarb rescue experiment is going well so far this spring.

Moonrise

More experiments...