On the pursuit of scientific knowledge...

In an editorial posted late on Friday March 18th, the New York Times reflects on how far the MESSENGER mission has come and what it means to have placed a spacecraft into orbit about the innermost planet.

MESSENGER in Orbit Around Mercury

See this link.
Important technical information in the images below:

Cheers!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE&feature=youtu.be

Random Acts of Culture
http://www.knightarts.org/random-acts-of-culture

Happy Thanksgiving!

...to all....(I don't have a suitably festive picture, so this will do instead).

First Snow!

We got our first snow of the season in town yesterday. Cypress and Whistler opened early, so you can guess where Mark is right now.....More photos from the beach yesterday here.

Summer and The Bear

I thought you'd all enjoy these. The bear photo not taken by us :)

Stuff I Was Delinquent in Posting

OK, well I'm not going to try to make up for the huge gap with no posts earlier this year. Here are the highlights....

1. May - San Diego rebuilding a fence (no photos posted yet)
2. May - Hawaii to visit Roger, Eden-Lee and Everett. Mainly to go to the Hawaii Book & Music Festival which Roger runs. Favorites: Story-telling and the Youth Poetry Slam. Another highlight: riding from the Kualoa Ranch.
3. August: Queensland trip. Visited our friends Steve and Mandy and their 3 kids in Brisbane, then went sailing in the Whitsundays, then drove back down the coast to Brisbane.
4. Extended our deck:

Before:

After:

Meanwhile Summer......

More importantly, how could I forget. While we were in the Adirondacks Summer went to Marshall Lake with Kirsten (Mark's student), Mark (Kirsten's Mark) and 6 other people, now all Summer's new best friends.....See photo album.