freeform goodness

It can be pretty, as long as you don’t have to drive in it.

:: Dave Walker 21:55 (EST/EDT) [+]

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I was walking back from the corner gas station and saw a pretty amusing sight. The trees are dropping acorns right now, which means this is pretty much Christmas, the Fourth of July and Guy Fawkes’ Day all in one if you happen to be a member of the Sciuridae family.

I heard some chittering and looked up at one of the trees in the front yard. There were two squirrels walking around a long branch, each holding an acorn pod. They were arranging the pods along the branch. It was unspeakably cute.

Being squirrels, of course, they freaked and ran when they saw me, but I was able to run in the house and grab my camera.

:: Dave Walker 12:23 (EST/EDT) [+]

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We need milk. I think I’ll walk. This is not the sidewalk I’ll be taking, though.

:: Dave Walker 09:38 (EST/EDT) [+]

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I’m changing the name to Squirrelform Goodness.

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We cooked and ate Christmas Eve dinner at our friend Don’s house, then stayed over for the following day. Don and I tossed extra bread and peanuts on the porch and down by the sidewalk, then sat at the front window and watched all of the hungry creatures stop by.

Being the selfish person I am, I brought along a telephoto lens.

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The cat hung around all day, hoping to get lucky. I don’t think he ever did.

:: Dave Walker 12:16 (EST/EDT) [+]

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So, I found myself in a deserted playground during magic hour yesterday, and all I had was my iPhone.

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I really love this shot, I just wish I’d had a real camera with me.

:: Dave Walker 12:52 (EST/EDT) [+]

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Almost certainly the last week for Tammie’s flowers. They were planted from a big box of seeds very late in the season but I think they turned out pretty well. Not really apparent from the angle is how tall they are. The pink and yellow ones in the left half of the frame are nearly two feet tall.

:: Dave Walker 07:45 (EST/EDT) [+]

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more bouncy balls
Originally uploaded by sem.

:: Dave Walker 18:58 (EST/EDT) [+]

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via Astronomy Picture of the Day (link)

Explanation: Big, beautiful, barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300 lies some 70 million light-years away on the banks of the constellation Eridanus. This Hubble Space Telescope composite view of the gorgeous island universe was released at this week’s meeting of the American Astronomical Society as one of the largest Hubble images ever made of a complete galaxy. NGC 1300 spans over 100,000 light-years and the Hubble image reveals striking details of the galaxy’s dominant central bar and majestic spiral arms. In fact, on close inspection the nucleus of this classic barred spiral itself shows a remarkable region of spiral structure about 3,000 light-years across. Unlike other spiral galaxies, including our own Milky Way, NGC 1300 is not presently known to have a massive central black hole.

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via apod:

The Great Nebula in Orion is a colorful place. Visible to the unaided eye, it appears as a small fuzzy patch in the constellation of Orion. Long exposure, digitally sharpened images like this, however, show the Orion Nebula to be a busy neighborhood of young stars, hot gas, and dark dust. The power behind much of the Orion Nebula (M42) is the Trapezium - four of the brightest stars in the nebula. Many of the filamentary structures visible are actually shock waves - fronts where fast moving material encounters slow moving gas. The Orion Nebula spans about 40 light years and is located about 1500 light years away in the same spiral arm of our Galaxy as the Sun.

Image credit: Stefan Seip

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