We are living at a time when the possibilities of astronomy have exploded with the next generation of “extremely large telescopes” (ELTS) which are being built in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Most people are not generally aware that … Continue reading →
Our entire Milky Way galaxy wobbles like a speck of dust on the outskirts of a cluster of 200,000 galaxies, all sailing into the dense heart of an extraordinary wondrous supercluster consisting of even more millions and millions of galaxies. … Continue reading →
Several crows live in the big tree by our house. They are big birds with long pointed wings and they have a bad reputation in the neighborhood for stealing many of the precious eggs local bird families are trying to … Continue reading →
I was once lucky enough to count among my good friends an extraordinary gentleman who valued kindness and good books and who, even at age eighty-four, believed in happy endings. He taught … Continue reading →
“There are two possibilities. Either we are alone in the universe or not. Both are equally terrifying.” Arthur C. Clarke An armadillo has been digging holes in our back yard, leaving piles of gray sand and cyprus … Continue reading →
In the early winter of 1994, on the edge of Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada, a healthy young wolf with a caramel-colored silvery gray and white coat and heavily muscled shoulders and legs, was following the trail of a … Continue reading →
If we could get one thing right, it would be to understand our connection to all life. Sylvia Earle The waters of the Gulf of Mexico are full of beautiful and courageous creatures whose lives are so much … Continue reading →
I used to spend summers in Maine with my family all those long years ago when nobody hated our country and banks were small and neighborly. Yet, I never saw her, a juvenile clambering between rocks along the bottom of … Continue reading →
Under the empty blue sky which conceals millions of massive spiral galaxies, there is something about ice cream that is comforting. At the Marble Slab in Clearwater, where it is served up with great silver scoops on slabs of … Continue reading →
We used to live on a dead end road next to a thriving small pond. There were only five houses laid out on this unassuming quiet spot and ours was the closest to the woods … Continue reading →