The pink sunset adds some color to the white landscape but it also reveals the lingering ice on the limbs.
Pink Ice Glow
Picture of the Day for November 30, 2013
The setting sun announces the end of the day and it is hard to believe that another month has ended with the year end approaching quickly.
November’s End
Picture of the Day for November 19, 2013
A hundred and fifty years ago, a speech was heard which started out with these words, “Standing beneath this serene sky, overlooking these broad fields now reposing from the labors of the waning year, the mighty Alleghenies dimly towering before us, the graves of our brethren beneath our feet, it is with hesitation that I raise my poor voice to break the eloquent silence of God and Nature”. The two hour speech, given by Edward Everett, who was considered to be the nation’s greatest orator of his time, is not as recognizable as a short two minute speech given after his which began with the now famous words of “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”.
Everett’s oration was slated to be the “Gettysburg Address” on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, but it is President Abraham Lincoln’s short speech which is known as the Gettysburg Address that has gone down in history as one of the finest examples of English public oratory.
Remembering Soldiers’ National Cemetery
Picture of the Day for October 20, 2013
The sunset last night looked a little eerie but then it probably knew what the night would bring and I wasn’t overly pleased to see a white coating on the ground early this morning so I went back to bed and it disappeared when I got up again so it was just all my imagination that it had snowed. Except I see flakes mixed in with the rain now so maybe it wasn’t my imagination after all.
Eerie Sunset
Picture of the Day for September 25, 2013
While we had the autumnal equinox on Sunday and while the name equinox means ‘equal night’ in Latin, it wasn’t equal day and night on that day. The earth’s axis is not tilted away or towards the sun on the two equinoxes during the year but length of day wasn’t equal.
Since ‘sunrise’ is defined as the instant when the upper edge of the sun’s disk becomes visible above the horizon – not when the center of the sun is visible. In the same sense, ‘sunset’ refers to the moment the upper edge disappears below the horizon. At both instances, the center of the sun is below the horizon, and therefore the equinox day lasts a little longer than 12 hours.
And if the ‘center’ of the sunrise or sunset doesn’t add enough of a wrinkle, refraction and latitude play a factor also. The Earth’s atmosphere refracts sunlight and can appear to be six minutes longer in a day. And one’s latitude can vary the ‘equal day’ by days or weeks.
For me, today is the approximate date of ‘equal’ whereas the most southern cities in the United States have an extra four days before their ‘equal’ day and it doesn’t occur until October 17 if living five degrees north of the equator.
Equinox Sunset
Picture of the Day for August 26, 2013
The heat and high humidity continues and the sun even appears hotter than normal.
Hot Sun
Picture of the Day for August 16, 2013
The evening waning light, summer crickets chirping, the rustling of leaves and grass swaying in the breeze.
Swaying Grass
Picture of the Day for July 16, 2013
On hot summer days, even the sunsets appear ‘hotter’ than normal even if they might give rays of hope that the weather would return to more comfortable temperatures.
Hot Summer Sunset
Picture of the Day for July 7, 2013
This old barn has seen a lot of sunsets, but its sunsets might be numbered as the side boards are already gone and its useful days are gone.
Sunset Barn
Picture of the Day for July 1, 2013
The summer sunset are a little easier to take a photograph of since the fingers don’t freeze but they might get bit by bugs instead but it is always nice to see a pretty sunset.
Summer Sunset
