Some new flowers have popped up in the yard, they’re pretty neat looking and purplish in color with dark bluish veins through the petals.  The flower has 5 points and the petals are all one piece, not individual petals.  The middle of the flower is white with a blue bulb at the tip.   I managed [...]

Continue Reading Some New Flowers Popped Up – They are Platycodon Grandiflorus

Tags: flowers, planter, Planting Beds

Well I did get manage to get the roof leak patched on the house, but I got so absorbed with things like getting the tools put away, fixing the roof, etc and I didn’t bother getting finished photos. Due to feeling kind of lousy I just ended up patching the existing ‘gutter’ for now and [...]

Continue Reading Strange Cloud Formations and Yankee Gutter Repair Updates

Tags: Clouds, Gutter, repair, summer, thunderstorm, Video, Weather

Don’t be a stick in the mud, if you have clear skies tonight, or any time this month the International Space Station will be passing within view of the United States many many times and you should be able to pick it out in the sky.  If you have a telescope you are in even [...]

Continue Reading International Space Station Highly Visible to US Residents in July ’09

Tags: iss, Orbit, Space