Category: Marginalia

One good thing about working from home is time for an end of day walk before dark. When commuting every day, the golden hour was spent cooped up in a car navigating traffic.

This is a huge improvement

Wind whipping the banana trees to a blur.

Housebound for days, we took a break to see a movie in town. Spitting rain and blowing. Not many people out with the storm moving up from the big drama further south.

It’s migration season. On the way there, a young red tail hawk landed on the fence around a small patch of weedy rubble. Surrounded by traffic several football fields of asphalt parking lots, it paid me little mind. I stood about 8 feet away for several minutes watching as it watched the ground intently.

Maybe getting down out of the wind, but this is also where any four legged critter looking for cover would hide. Smart bird.

Just a few nights before the Autumn Equinox, and the official end of summer.

You may need a good monitor to appreciate these photos, taken on a moonless night. Planets roll along the ecliptic, meteors streak across the steady plodding paths of satellites.

The clouds that mark the center of the galaxy make a winding river through a valley of stars. Deep in the center is the black hole heart of the Milky Way, weaving destiny out of dust.

Somehow, science makes the wonders even more wonderful than the mystery of it all.