Thursday, November 21, 2024

NW Bomb Cyclone

Precipitation

WIND SPEED up to 49mph

WIND GUSTS UP TO 78mph

Pressure got down to 949mb ~ CAT 4 Hurricane strength

It's HUGE

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

OOPS! SORRY TO BE LATE!

FRODO: I can’t do this, Sam. SAM: I know. It’s all wrong.

By rights we shouldn’t even be here.

But we are.

It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo.

The ones that really mattered.

Full of darkness

and danger they were.

And sometimes

you didn’t want to know the end.

Because how could the end be happy.

How could the world

go back to the way it was

when so much bad had happened.

But in the end,

it’s only a passing thing, this shadow.

Even darkness must pass.

A new day will come.

And when the sun shines

it will shine out the clearer.

Those were the stories

that stayed with you.

That meant something.

Even if you were too small

to understand why.

But I think, Mr. Frodo,

I do understand.

I know now.

Folk in those stories

had lots of chances

of turning back

only they didn’t.

Because they were

holding on to something.

FRODO: What are we holding on to, Sam?

SAM: That there’s some good

in this world, Mr. Frodo.

And it’s worth fighting for.

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Monday, November 18, 2024

Late Autumn in Vermont: Camel's Hump Mountain

Sunday, November 17, 2024

Brokenness

KINTSUGI is the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold. It renders the mended pottery worth more than it was worth before it broke. Be gold for the broken ones.

Saturday, November 16, 2024

Friday, November 15, 2024

Supermoon & Leonid Meteor Shower

CNN: November’s full moon, otherwise known as the beaver moon, will shine bright in the sky on Friday as the last supermoon of the year.

For sky-gazers observing the golden orb this weekend, the Leonid meteor shower could make for a dazzling bonus feature as it reaches its peak on Saturday night into early Sunday, according to the American Meteor Society.

The beaver moon — named as a nod to that animal’s hibernation and thicker coats this time of year — will reach the crest of its full phase at 4:29 p.m. ET Friday, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac. But the moon will appear full to the naked eye about a day before and after its peak, said Noah Petro, chief of NASA’s Planetary Geology, Geophysics and Geochemistry Laboratory.