Like loads of people I’m interested in astronomy, not in any technical sort of a way mind you just the usual sort of looking for meteor showers and solar eclipses and the like. Of course we all get excited about these things and then as we’re in Britain it turns out to be too cloudy to see much. I’ve seen a few eclipses and Halley’s Comet when it last visited us. Granny saw it the time before that too and she said it was much brighter in 1911.
Anyway, my husband is of the scientific type and The Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive is one of his favourite websites. Take a look if you’re interested in seeing fabulous photographs of the cosmos.
This photo from the site incorporates two interests of mine – gardening and astronomy – it’s a representation of the galaxy as a garden. It’s in Hawaii so I’m never going to visit it, it’s too hot and sunny for me but this photo is next best thing, I can imagine I’m there.
My husband was given a DVD of From the Earth to the Moon as a Christmas present so we spent part of the holidays watching it all and it took me right back to that exciting time when men were walking on the moon. I think I was 11 at the time of the first moon landing. Nowadays there are a lot of children who think that you are pulling their leg about it all. They just don’t realise that men have already been on the moon.
It’s quite sad really. Anyway if you like lovely astronomical photos take a look at the site, there are hundreds of them.
Wouldn’t visit Hawaii because it’s too hot and sunny?? Oh my!!
Now that’s the first time I’ve ever heard of someone not wanting to visit here because the weather’s just too nice!! LOL
It doesn’t get really hot hot here — we don’t even have an air conditioner. Just ceiling fans. And since I suffer from SAD, the sun is a necessity for me.
I could never live in Scotland, although I enjoy our visits there. I see the Weather.com feed for Edinburgh every day and it doesn’t ever seem to be anything but chill and damp. I don’t know how my former beach-bunny stepdaughter stands it.
But everybody’s gotta be somewhere, and as long as you’re happy where you are… that’s all that matters.
Pearl,
Each to their own! I know what you mean about Scotland, I often wonder how we can stand it – so cold, grey, windy and wet. I would have thought that anyone not born into it would be miserable here, it must be true love with your stepdaughter – or sheer madness!
As a SAD sufferer you would have to spend half your life sitting under a sun lamp here. As I have red hair my skin burns very easily so I would spend loads of time applying sun block and still end up with a face like a tomato because it turns red at about 70 F or even less! Such is life, I would have gladly gone anywhere to escape the hurricane force winds we’ve had in the last few days. Scary!
Hawaii does look fabulously lush.