Category: Nature
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A World of Wonder
Now that life has been discovered on Mars, the new question on many people’s lips is “What’s next?” Already plans are afoot to send a team of scientists to the red planet to meet our new neighbours in the Solar System, and commence dialogue. And stake claim to the planet should that dialogue fail. Scaremongerers…
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More of the Moon
(Or did I see the crescent, or the whole of the Moon?) A couple more shots of last night’s Moon, this time over some rooftops. A few hours before the Eclipse, and a few hours after the very large Moon photographed in yesterday’s post. The Moon, however, was still very bright, I don’t know whether…
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Start of the Supermoon!
Hanging low in the early evening sky was the Full Moon, bright and glorious and a lot larger than usual, due to this particular Full Moon being a Supermoon. It’s probably moved position now, or we have, so it may be higher and larger… and possibly redder. We’re in for a Total Lunar Eclipse later,…
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Warm Winter
Pterodactyls circle, smothered by the steamy mist evaporating from the molten lava below. Rocks heat and cool simultaneously, smoke burns and water becomes a sizzling gas in a split second. Where it can be, the water is calm, cooler but definitely not cold even in the midst of this searing winter. Soon, very soon, the…
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View from the window: Meteorites!
I noticed three red-tinged shadows dancing across the wall before I heard the popping and sizzling sounds coming from outside. I looked through the window and saw that the Grinds had also been transformed into a vast realm of redness; the sky too wasn’t its usual colour. Suddenly, from out of the blue (red) three…
