The Last Light of August

The Last Light of August

 

From 

"Away With Words"

 by 

Jim Matheos 

Pioneering Twins

Thanks to the staff of the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center and also Fort Caspar Museum for helping our Student Docents make it a Summer of Pioneering Adventure!

https://nhtcf.org/

https://www.fortcasparwyoming.com/

Aestivation Arrives

 

 

 

Overcast in Casper all day, we never did see the Sun.

Nevertheless, it's still Summer!

 

 

 

Aestivation Awaits

 

 

 

When next we see the Sun it shall be Summer!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fifteen Years

 A Happy Crystal Anniversary to my wonderful Rainbow!

ANOTHER Few Snow Days

Sent home early from school yesterday, working through a virtual school day today, and already scheduled to be staying home again tomorrow, we here in Casper, Wyoming, are enduring yet another few snow days. This go 'round, the snow storm has broken a record that has stood since a wintry Christmas Eve over forty years ago. In fact, it sets the record, as kept since the 1930s.

I was going to post a couple of pictures, but the white space below gives a rather fair sense of what Wyoming looks like outside my window.

Cloudy Conjunction

We have been watching Venus and Jupiter approach one another night after night for weeks. 

Then, at last, the evening they meet, the skies are cloudy, alas!

 

Yet, it made for a ghostly glow around the pair, as if they were gazing through a spectral veil.

 

 

The high, frosty clouds also gave the Moon a really cool halo.

So, it proved to be a wondrous night of stargazing, nevertheless.