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In early December, I headed to San Francisco for the annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. While most of my time was spent at the conference, I did find time to catch up with friends who live far away and see some of the sights of San Francisco.
My family’s border collie, Crash, died yesterday. He was about three months shy of his 16th birthday. We got Crash when I was 14. When we went to go look at the litter and pick out our puppy, all the puppies were bouncing off the walls and running around like crazed, energy-filled border collies tend [...] Every year, NASA Johnson Space Center hosts a hot air balloon festival. The balloons launch from another location and land in a giant field on the JSC campus shortly after sunrise. They have contests for the pilots to throw things from their balloons trying to hit specific spots on the ground, and booths to visit. [...] The last stop on our teacher workshop field trip before heading back to Phoenix was Sunset Crater National Monument, a cindercone volcano in northern Arizona. When we were leaving the park, we caught a gorgeous view of the sun peaking through the monsoon clouds and shining on the San Francisco Peaks. As we drove out [...] While on the teacher workshop field trip in northern Arizona, one of our stops was a cindercone volcano called SP Crater. When we arrived at the cone, the sky was blue with a few puffy clouds. We spent less than an hour climbing around collecting cinders and lava bombs before gathering at the bottom to [...] One of the stops on the teacher workshop field trip in Arizona was Meteor Crater (or Barringer Crater). Meteor Crater was formed when a meteorite about 150 feet across made mostly of iron and nickel metal slammed into the northern Arizona desert, creating a hole about a mile wide. At 50,000 years old, it is [...] I traveled to the Phoenix area to help facilitate a teacher workshop about the Moon last month. I stayed with a couple of awesome friends of mine from grad school (hi Beck and Thijs!) for a few days before the workshop. They have a fabulous pool that we spent the hot summer nights relaxing in, [...] A couple of months ago, a cat outside my apartment had four kittens. One of them refused to eat and didn’t make it past a couple of weeks. The other three grew and played with each other. Mama cat stayed with them. Two of the kittens didn’t want anything to do with people and ran [...] One of my main modes of travel while in DC was the Metro. On my last night, I wanted to capture the lights and movement of the train, as well as the awesome ceiling in the tunnel, but didn’t want to get out my tripod in fear of missing my train. So, I balanced my [...] I had a few minutes to get some photos around San Gabriel Park in Georgetown, Texas after a photo shoot. A branch of the San Gabriel River runs through the park and lot of ducks like to hang out there. Spring was definitely on the way – some of the trees were starting [...] |
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