There was a lunar eclipse tonight, and I had a chance to further test my new camera. It wasn’t the best night for moon shots (there was some cloud cover, and probably some moisture in the atmosphere making the photos less crisp), but the moon stayed clear enough to watch the whole progression. At totality, which […]
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Dramatis persona*
Helen Chick
I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"! I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1! * Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona. Visits since May 2016 |
Fortunately the mountain was looking good for allowing the new camera to make its first contribution to the Moods of the Mountain collection. The full Moods of the Mountain collection […] The two Saturdays prior to this one had been taken up with marking duty, with a couple of stacks of assignments to return to students. This meant that I was feeling a bit antsy for a trip outdoors, not least because I’d recently purchased my long-promised half-century birthday present and hadn’t really had a chance to […] There were some lovely things to see on my most recent overnight trip to Launceston, but not enough time for extended stops. Actually, it is slightly more complicated than merely “not having time” to stop, since I think I am pathologically averse to stopping when I’m driving from A to B. It takes considerable mental effort […] |
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