The Ciel Show for Wednesday, May 21, 2014

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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

The days have been so nice... warm, sunny...

The rose has been sending out canes to climb and wrap itself around the railings... The sugar pea vines have gotten long enough to begin to seek things to cling to... I potted up a new plant, a dark pinky orange nemesia and set it on the deck by the rail, along with a few other plants that spent the winter thriving indoors... The maple has filled out with its soft, vibrant green... And then, the wind and the hail came. Hailstones 1/4-1/2 inch wide--not nearly as big as they can be, but in such... Sign in to see full entry.

Naut brought up an anniversary of discovery in his blog

and here is another, now just past its 60th anniversary: http://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov/library/sci_briefs/discovery.html This article leads to several others, not all of them techincal. I have mentioned this before, because Dr. Kenneth Franklin was my dad. Also, because I remember that array: wires strung to short telephone posts across a field. I remember sitting in the car, my parents arguing over something, my mother very anxious and angry as he walked out into that field to check the wires,... Sign in to see full entry.

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