NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of the clouds over Canada on May 9, 2016. Entwined within the clouds is the smoke billowing up from the wildfires that are currently burning across a large expanse of the country. via NASA http://ift.tt/1WniUAg
I took this a month ago or so. It is a snapshot of the sky where I grew up and were mum still lives. It was one of those cold and sunny days.
Here, have a snippet from Vanished, which is getting close to done. Well. This round, at least. A moment later, the door opened and Arwel stepped inside. I closed the door to the larder, and looked at him. “ Who was it?” “A messenger from the merchant guild. They wants us to deliver a […]
The planet Mercury is seen in silhouette, lower third of image, as it transits across the face of the sun Monday, May 9, 2016, as viewed from Boyertown, Pennsylvania. Mercury passes between Earth and the sun only about 13 times a century, with the previous transit taking place in 2006. via NASA http://ift.tt/1T6P1TE
I took this photo in the playground next to dad’s apartment. It is dragon eggs, since the park has a dragon theme. Anyway. Doesn’t the dragon eggs look like they are about to hatch?
My two writing retreat weekends have been very productive. I am almost done with revising Vanished. So far I have added 2000 words, I think I will probably add another couple of hundred words, before I am done. Then I need to do a clean up, before sending it to a betareader. Then, I am […]
Shown in this Hubble Space Telescope image, NGC 4394 is the archetypal barred spiral galaxy, with bright spiral arms emerging from the ends of a bar that cuts through the galaxy’s central bulge. These arms are peppered with young blue stars, dark filaments of cosmic dust, and bright, fuzzy regions of active star formation. via […]
Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., in his silver pressure suit with the helmet visor closed, prepares for his Mercury Redstone 3 launch on May 5, 1961. Shepard’s Freedom 7 Mercury capsule lifted off at 9:34 a.m. and flew a suborbital trajectory lasting 15 minutes and 22 seconds. He became the first American to fly into […]
The Nili Fossae region, located on the northwest rim of Isidis impact basin, is one of the most colorful regions of Mars. This region is ancient and has had a complicated geologic history, leading to interesting structures like layered bedrock, as well as other compositions. via NASA http://ift.tt/1W7TdTm
Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Jeff Williams of NASA captured this detailed photograph from the International Space Station during a daytime flyover of Morocco on May 2, 2016. Williams shared the image to social media and asked, “Reptile scales, or incredible and rugged geology in Morocco?” via NASA http://ift.tt/1SWtCto