I too have a thing for lighthouses. I cannot stop myself from taking pictures of one even if it is one I passed (and took pictures of) just the previous day. While visiting my father-in-law in Maine we took a walk around Beauchamp Point between Rockport and Camden. I decided not to bring my camera since we had done the walk before, but near the end I found a tiny path to a tiny park looking out over Camden Harbor with a beautiful view of the Camden Harbor Lighthouse. Even though we were supposed to leave for the airport in about an hour, I felt I just had to go back to her father's place, get my camera, and return to get pictures of the lighthouse.

Not a very good picture but Federal Hill in Providence. Lots of outdoor seating at nearby restaurants on a lovely summer night. There was a street musician singing Frank Sinatra songs. It was so much fun.

Fred is recuperating from his surgery on Thursday. He had a growth removed from his side. I get the results of the biopsy back sometime this week.

A Heart Shaped Lenticular Cloud Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Kunze Explanation: Can a cloud love a mountain? Perhaps not, but on a Valentine's Day like today, one might be prone to seeing heart-shaped symbols where they don't actually exist. A fleeting pareidolia, the featured heart was really a lenticular cloud that appeared one morning last July above Mount Cook National Park in New Zealand. A companion video shows the lenticular cloud was mostly stationary in the sky but shifted and vibrated with surrounding winds. The cloud's red color was caused by the Sun rising off the frame to the right. Lenticular clouds are somewhat rare but can form in air that passes over a mountain. Then, vertical eddies may form where rising air cools past the dew point causing water carried by the air to condense into droplets.