Category: Flowers and Outdoors

Walk about the lagoon

It was such a nice day today, 56°F/13 °C; my wife and I decided to walk around the lagoon near the Museum of Science and Industry with our dog. There’s a nice trail for most of the walk. They even have most of the poison oak caged off. In the middle, there’s a Japanese garden that I didn’t know about.

BTW, I just noticed we can choose the album cover, squeee.

Bruneau Dunes – To tame a land

I had an awesome time camping with Gnotic Pasta,  Mary Owens, and company, at Bruneau Dunes State Park, just outside of Boise, Idaho. The dunes are deceptive. A few meters from the top, the grade changes pretty dramatically. It was worth the effort. The Bruneau canyon was spectacular too. I can’t wait to go back to go camping in the mountains. We lucked out and the clouds cleared so we could see the Whirlpool Galaxy, Messier 51

http://www.universetoday.com/35997/messier-51/

I mentioned Virtual Star Party to Greg, one of the telescope operators there. It would be awesome if he follows up with Scott Lewis or Fraser Cain so everyone can check out the skies without light pollution.

http://parksandrecreation.idaho.gov/parks/bruneau-dunes

Orchis Italica

At first, I thought this was a joke via Reddit. My wife has a ton of orchids. I’ve posted pics before. So I did an image search: http://goo.gl/t70dR

Then I noticed João Figueiredo posted about them too.