Sunday, August 12, 2012
Olympics 2012
Watching the Olympics from London has been great. I will be posting some of my favorite pictures...
Monday, July 16, 2012
Solar X Flares
Friday, July 13, 2012
Friday the 13th
Today is Friday the 13th again! Happy Day! How did your day go? See previous blogs for other Friday the 13th info (see below in labels) This is a very lucky year, as we have 3 Friday the 13th's, all 13 weeks apart!
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Happy Independence Day
The concert was great! A Benefit concert for the fire victims to rebuild! It really showed community pride in our city of Colorado Springs! A good way to celebrate the 4th of July! (without fireworks)
http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/Waldo_Canyon_Wildfire_Relief_Benefit_Concert_Planned_160960805.html
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Waldo Canyon Wildfire in Colorado Springs Updates
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.
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Colorado wildfire doubles in size,
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Colorado Wildfires 2012: Barack Obama Issues Disaster Declaration, Releasing Federal Funds To Help Affected Areas ...
- The Huffington Post - Jun 29 12:02amCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- President Barack Obama has issued a disaster declaration for Colorado, releasing federal funds to help areas affected by two deadly and... full story
- Colorado fire toll: 346 homes destroyed - CNN - Jun 29 04:01pm
- Obama tours site of deadly fire in Colorado - CNN - Jun 29 08:49pm
- Obama visits fire-ravaged Colorado - CNN - Jun 29 04:01pm
- [Jun 27, 2012] About 32,000 Colorado Springs residents were being evacuated on Wednesday as wildfires continued to wreak havoc in Colorado. The Waldo Canyon fire, west of Colorado ...www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/27/colorado-wildfires..
[Jun 28, 2012] Fire from the Waldo Canyon wildfire burns as it moved into subdivisions and destroyed homes in Colorado Springs, Colo., June 26, 2012. (Gaylon Wampler/AP ...
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Authorities evacuated more neighborhoods as firefighters tried to slow a wildfire that razed residential areas in Colorado Springs.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) – The total number of homes destroyed by a two-week old wildfire in northern Colorado was raised to 248 on Sunday as ...
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A three-day-old wildfire erupted with catastrophic fury Tuesday, ripping across the foothills neighborhoods of Colorado Springs, devouring an untold number of homes ...
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[Jun 29, 2012] One person has died in the Colorado Springs wildfires that officials say are the most destructive in the state's history. Police chief Peter Carey said a ...
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A fast-moving wildfire near Colorado Springs forced as many as 32,000 residents to be evacuated on Tuesday, as the blaze—fueled by 65 mph winds—jumped a perimeter ...
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Colorado wildfire doubles in size, destroys houses, chars ... COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A raging wildfire destroyed dozens of houses overnight
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Waldo Canyon Fire doubles in size. EL PASO COUNTY - The Waldo Canyon Fire near Colorado Springs has forced more ...
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Colorado Wildfire- Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado Springs
We have been busy the last few days, making an evacuation kit, packing, making sure everyone we know and love is safe, and never knowing when it is our turn to evacuate- the entire west side of town is evacuated, including most of the mountain area, as well as the Air Force Academy- extending almost halfway to Denver! The Firefighters are battling this wildfire feverishly night and day, it is a towering inferno of epic proportions- as a Coloradoan, I have NEVER seen anything like this! Pray for the firefighters, the evacuees, and us all! We appreciate it, Thank You! Rain would also be VERY welcome!
Evacuations increase in powerful Colorado wildfire CNN - June 27, 2012
Authorities evacuated more neighborhoods Wednesday as firefighters tried to slow a wildfire that roared down foothills and razed residential areas in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Waldo Canyon Fire had engulfed 15,517 acres and was only 5% contained.
New Colorado wildfire erupts, grows out of control AP - June 24, 2012
Evacuations increase in powerful Colorado wildfire CNN - June 27, 2012
Authorities evacuated more neighborhoods Wednesday as firefighters tried to slow a wildfire that roared down foothills and razed residential areas in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Waldo Canyon Fire had engulfed 15,517 acres and was only 5% contained.
New Colorado wildfire erupts, grows out of control AP - June 24, 2012
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Summer Solstice
Solstice 2012 is here, the longest day of the year! In England, the most celebrated time is now, when many Druids, and modern groups gather at Stonehenge to watch the rising of the sun over the stone monument as it lines up with the outer heel stone. It has been a sacred time for the ancient Celtic people for millenia. It has also been named Midsummer, and tonight is the midsummer's night dream! Your dream will come true- what you intend manifests for you (and me)!
Molly Hall of about.com writes "Now is the time for ripening of what was set in motion at Spring Equinox, going with the solar rhythm of seasonal intention setting. Friends in the Southern Hemisphere experience June solstice as the longest night, for soulful reflection on life's work and legacy."
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
New Moon in Gemini
New Moon in Gemini is a double dose of Gemini, but it seems only fitting that this would be, since Gemini is the twins, and must have 2 of everything! This Gemini moon is a second dose (after the Solar eclipse/Gemini New Moon on May 21st). Time to do something new during this new moon, some call this a blue new moon, since it is the second one in Gemini in this Lunar Cycle. 2nd chance?
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
6-12-12
Numerology of this date, 6-12-12 is =12 (or 3, when broken down) Interesting number play, & only 6 months to 12-12-12!
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Venus Transit Effects
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Venus Transit of the Sun
Venus Transit 2012 in Pictures from Space.com
Monday, June 4, 2012
Full Moon Partial Lunar Eclipse
Sunday, May 20, 2012
New Moon Solar Eclipse
This is the rare May 20, 2012 Annular Solar Eclipse with the Pleiades on a Mayan Day of No Shadows that opens a two week eclipse window ending with the partial Lunar Eclipse on June 4 followed the next day by the June 5 Venus Transit over the Sun (visible in the western United States and Hawaii) a special event that will not happen again for 105 years!
This is an annular solar eclipse, when the moon and sun align today, creating a "ring of fire" around the moon because of the sun being the larger size, also called ring of fire because it is literally in the pacific ring of fire area. Astronomers say that today's (May 20) solar eclipse will be the best the United States has seen since 1992. "The moon is going to cover 80 or 90 percent of the sun for all of the middle and western United States," Dr. Douglas Duncan, Director of Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado, Boulder said in a video about the event on his blog. Colorado is not in direct alignment with this celestial event, as best views are in Northern California, Nevada, Southern Utah, Northern Arizona and New Mexico, still, Colorado's southwest corner should get a pretty good view, take a look at this map for the solar eclipse's path over the United States or this NASA built map showing the path of the annular solar eclipse and where it is viewable across the globe.
(Great time for Intending at The Intenders Of The Highest Good Circle tonight!) Happy Intending!
It will still be stunning to see in the rest of Colorado. Here is today's Eclipse/Intending schedule:
This is an annular solar eclipse, when the moon and sun align today, creating a "ring of fire" around the moon because of the sun being the larger size, also called ring of fire because it is literally in the pacific ring of fire area. Astronomers say that today's (May 20) solar eclipse will be the best the United States has seen since 1992. "The moon is going to cover 80 or 90 percent of the sun for all of the middle and western United States," Dr. Douglas Duncan, Director of Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado, Boulder said in a video about the event on his blog. Colorado is not in direct alignment with this celestial event, as best views are in Northern California, Nevada, Southern Utah, Northern Arizona and New Mexico, still, Colorado's southwest corner should get a pretty good view, take a look at this map for the solar eclipse's path over the United States or this NASA built map showing the path of the annular solar eclipse and where it is viewable across the globe.
(Great time for Intending at The Intenders Of The Highest Good Circle tonight!) Happy Intending!
It will still be stunning to see in the rest of Colorado. Here is today's Eclipse/Intending schedule:
6:23 p.m.: Eclipse begins (Intending begins)
7:30 p.m.: Maximum eclipse (Intending maxed)
7:50 p.m.: Sunset (Intending finished)
An Alignment of Our Earth, the Moon, the Sun, and beyond the Milky Way in the center of the Galaxy, The Pleiades occurs today on May 20, 2012
An Alignment of Our Earth, the Moon, the Sun, and beyond the Milky Way in the center of the Galaxy, The Pleiades occurs today on May 20, 2012
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Happy Mother's Day
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. ~ Robert Browning
Children are the anchors of a mother’s life. ~ Sophocles
There is only one mother for any of us, as we can only have one, make her your favorite ~ Laurie L. Grant
Mother Earth loves us back on Mother's Day ~Laurie L. Grant
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ~Theodore Hesburgh
The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven. ~William Goldsmith Brown
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ~ Abraham Lincoln
I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~ Abraham Lincoln
That best academy, a mother’s knee. Heaven on Earth at mother’s feet. ~James Russell Lowell
Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face. ~ George Eliot
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. ~ Barbara Kingsolver
Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ~ Erich Fromm
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ~William Makepeace Thackeray
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. - Jewish Proverb
A young boy said to his mother, 'How old were you when I was born?' His mother replied, '23.' 'Wow, that's a lot of time we missed spending together.'
M-O-T-H-E-R
"M" is for the million things she gave me,
"O" means only that she's growing old,
"T" is for the tears she shed to save me,
"H" is for her heart of purest gold;
"E" is for her eyes, with love-light shining,
"R" means right, and right she'll always be,
Put them all together, they spell "MOTHER,"
A person that means the world to me.
Children are the anchors of a mother’s life. ~ Sophocles
There is only one mother for any of us, as we can only have one, make her your favorite ~ Laurie L. Grant
Mother Earth loves us back on Mother's Day ~Laurie L. Grant
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ~Theodore Hesburgh
The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven. ~William Goldsmith Brown
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ~ Abraham Lincoln
I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~ Abraham Lincoln
That best academy, a mother’s knee. Heaven on Earth at mother’s feet. ~James Russell Lowell
Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face. ~ George Eliot
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. ~ Barbara Kingsolver
Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ~ Erich Fromm
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ~William Makepeace Thackeray
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. - Jewish Proverb
A young boy said to his mother, 'How old were you when I was born?' His mother replied, '23.' 'Wow, that's a lot of time we missed spending together.'
M-O-T-H-E-R
"M" is for the million things she gave me,
"O" means only that she's growing old,
"T" is for the tears she shed to save me,
"H" is for her heart of purest gold;
"E" is for her eyes, with love-light shining,
"R" means right, and right she'll always be,
Put them all together, they spell "MOTHER,"
A person that means the world to me.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Supermoon 2012 & St George's Day
Supermoon 2012 http://news.yahoo.com/photos/supermoon-lights-up-sky-slideshow/-supermoon-lights-up-photo-1336277316.htmlore Photos AP - May 6, 2012
http://www.spaceweather.com/ (More Photos)
St George's Day
From Wikipedia:
St George's Day is celebrated by the several nations, kingdoms, countries, and cities of which Saint George is the patron saint. St George's Day is celebrated on 23 April, the traditionally accepted date of Saint George's death in AD 303. For Eastern Orthodox Churches who use the Julian calendar, 23 April corresponds to 6 May on the Gregorian calendar.
As Easter often falls close to St George's Day, the church celebration of the feast may be moved from 23 April. In 2011 and 2014, the Anglican and Catholic calendars celebrate St George's Day on the first Monday after Easter Week (2 May and 28 April, respectively). Similarly, the Eastern Orthodox celebration of the feast moves accordingly to the first Monday after Easter or, as it is else called, to the Monday of Bright Week.
Celebrations
Countries that celebrate St George's Day include England, Canada, Catalonia, Croatia, Portugal, Cyprus, Greece, Georgia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Republic of Macedonia. Cities include Moscow in Russia, Genova in Italy, Ljubljana in Slovenia, Beirut in Lebanon, Qormi and Victoria in Malta and many others. It is also celebrated in the old Crown of Aragon in Spain—Aragon, Catalonia, Valencia, and Majorca
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Supermoon Saturday! 5-5-5
Supermoon Saturday is here! Today is 5-5-5 as well in numerology dates. The full moon is in Perigee, which is the closest time of alignment to the earth. Tonight's "supermoon" is the biggest and brightest full moon of the year, due to the fact that the moon is near the closest point in its orbital path around Earth. Richard Nolle of Astropro.com coined the name of Supermoon in 1979, and used these moons to predict natural disasters of all types, not just from rising tides. He says that SuperMoons are noteworthy for their close association with extreme tidal forces working in what astrologers of old used to call the sublunary world: the atmosphere, crust and oceans of our home planet - including ourselves, of course. From extreme coastal tides to severe storms to powerful earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, the entire natural world surges and spasms under the sway of the SuperMoon alignment - within three days either way of the exact syzygy, as a general rule. SuperMoon solar eclipses tend to have a wider sphere of impact, extending roughly a week before and after the actual event. And other lunar extremes (of declination, for example) can extend the geocosmic stress window by a day or two here and there in any case.
Friday, May 4, 2012
May the Fourth be with You
Friday, April 13, 2012
Friday the 13th & THE Number 13
13 is the original number of colonies that formed the United States. The original flag had 13 stars, one for each state. New stars have since been added whenever a new state joins the union, but the idea of adding stripes for new states was soon dropped, so the American flag to this day has 13 horizontal stripes: 6 white ones and 7 red ones. But the number 13 always became a number related to our country's symbols.
The Great Seal is one perfect example, as there have been 13:
Stripes on the Seal's emblem
Leaves on the olive branch (as well as thirteen olives)
Arrows in the other grip
Characters making up the dictum, E Pluribus Unum
Characters making up the dictum, "Annuit cœptis"
Breast coverts on the bird
Layers of bricks in the truncated pyramid
The number of guns in a gun salute to U.S. Army, Air Force and Marine Corps Major Generals, and Navy and Coast Guard Rear Admirals Upper Half.
This year, 2012, we have 3 Friday the 13th days, spaced 13 weeks apart! Truth is always stranger than fiction! Happy Friday 13th!
The Great Seal is one perfect example, as there have been 13:
Stripes on the Seal's emblem
Leaves on the olive branch (as well as thirteen olives)
Arrows in the other grip
Characters making up the dictum, E Pluribus Unum
Characters making up the dictum, "Annuit cœptis"
Breast coverts on the bird
Layers of bricks in the truncated pyramid
The number of guns in a gun salute to U.S. Army, Air Force and Marine Corps Major Generals, and Navy and Coast Guard Rear Admirals Upper Half.
This year, 2012, we have 3 Friday the 13th days, spaced 13 weeks apart! Truth is always stranger than fiction! Happy Friday 13th!
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Happy Easter
Happy Easter to all today! The full pink moon is really making an awesome background in the sky for this holy weekend- Passover, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday (also Holy Thursday, and Easter Monday). All the flowers seem to be pink at this time of year as well and the pastels of the colored eggs reflect the pink hue. It all says spring is here, Christ is risen and all is well with the world.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Leonardo's Earthshine Moon
Also known as the Moon's ashen glow, Earthshine is Earthlight illuminating the Moon's night side. Taken on Nowruz, the March 20 equinox, from Esfahan, Iran, planet Earth, this telescopic image captures strong Earthshine from an old Moon. The darker earthlit disk is in the arms of a bright sunlit crescent. But the view from the Moon would have been enchanting too. When the Moon appears in Earth's sky as a slender crescent, a dazzlingly bright, nearly full Earth would be seen from the lunar surface. The Earth's brightness due to reflected sunlight is known to be strongly influenced by cloud cover. Still, a description of Earthshine, in terms of sunlight reflected by Earth's oceans in turn illuminating the Moon's dark surface, was written 500 years ago by Leonardo da Vinci. He used backward or mirror writing to document his discoveries to keep most of them secret, but his drawings are exquisite, as everyone can see!
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