Really nice looking pictures today, everybody. Moni, I especially enjoyed yours. What a neat building!! Thanks, everybody.

We must have a flock of Robins wintering nearby....20 or so finding something in our artificial lawn....under a crab apple tree. So pudgy and cute. We had to quit feeding...neighbor cat kept leaving his 'kills' on our patio or porch as a thank you....no thanks. He is a skilled hunter, more than one a day.

I know where you will probably be on Friday. Hope the weather will be nice. One of my memories is of a male graduate to whom my daughter offered her cell phone to call his family right after graduation. He said "None of them cares."

An Airglow Fan from Lake to Sky Image Credit & Copyright: Dave Lane; Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt Explanation: Why would the sky look like a giant fan? Airglow. The featured intermittent green glow appeared to rise from a lake through the arch of our Milky Way Galaxy, as captured last summer next toBryce Canyon in Utah, USA. The unusual pattern was created by atmospheric gravity waves, ripples of alternating air pressure that can grow with height as the air thins, in this case about 90 kilometers up. Unlike auroras powered by collisions with energetic charged particles and seen at high latitudes, airglow is due to chemiluminescence, the production of light in a chemical reaction. More typically seen near the horizon, airglow keeps the night sky from ever being completely dark.