Flowers in Bloom, July 2013

2013-07-01: iPhone 4S (reduced size and pixels)

2013-07-01: iPhone 4S (reduced size and pixels)

Summer in Venice

Music for the first day of summer, 21 June 2013

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Manuel and the Music of the Mountains (1971)
- Summer in Venice (Ciognini)

Summer Days for Me

Summer
Christina Rossetti

Winter is cold-hearted,
Spring is yea and nay,
Autumn is a weathercock
Blown every way:
Summer days for me
When every leaf is on its tree;

When Robin's not a beggar,
And Jenny Wren's a bride,
And larks hang singing, singing, singing,
Over the wheat-fields wide,
And anchored lilies ride,
And the pendulum spider
Swings from side to side,

And blue-black beetles transact business,
And gnats fly in a host,
And furry caterpillars hasten
That no time be lost,
And moths grow fat and thrive,
And ladybirds arrive.

Before green apples blush,
Before green nuts embrown,
Why, one day in the country
Is worth a month in town;
Is worth a day and a year
Of the dusty, musty, lag-last fashion
That days drone elsewhere.

First Day of Summer, 2013

June 21, 2013
1700 Hours PDT Log
Current Temperature and Condition:
91° F | 33° C
Clear

Astronomy:

June 21, 2013          Rise:        Set:
Actual Time            5:42 AM PDT  8:29 PM PDT
Civil Twilight         5:11 AM PDT  9:00 PM PDT
Nautical Twilight      4:32 AM PDT  9:39 PM PDT
Astronomical Twilight  3:47 AM PDT 10:23 PM PDT
Moon                   6:46 PM PDT  4:01 AM PDT

Length of Visible Light 15h 48m
Length of Day 14h 46m
Tomorrow will be 0m 3s shorter.

Waxing Gibbous, 97% of the Moon is Illuminated.

Books Read in June 2013

Western - William Johnstone, "The Drifter."

Modern Classic - Wilson Rawls, "Where the Red Fern Grows."

Science Fiction - David Weber, "Mission of Honor."

Day 11 - Canadian Rockies Vacation Photo Highlights

1 June 2013, last day of this vacation.


Heritage Hall, the Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, AB
2013-06-01, Canon PowerShot SD780



Viewed from the Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, AB
2013-06-01, Canon PowerShot SD780



Viewed from the Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, AB
2013-06-01, Canon PowerShot SD780



Viewed from the Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, AB
2013-06-01, Canon PowerShot SD780

Day 10 - Canadian Rockies Vacation Photo Highlights

Bow Falls, Banff, AB
2013-05-31, Canon PowerShot SD780

Day 09 - Canadian Rockies Vacation Photo Highlights

Panorama (reduced size): Mt. Fairview and Lake Louise, AB
2013-05-30, Canon PowerShot SD780

Panorama (reduced size): Emerald Lake, BC
2013-05-30, Canon PowerShot SD780


Emerald Lake Lodge, BC
2013-05-30, Canon PowerShot SD780


Kicking Horse River and Natural Bridge, Yoho NP, BC
2013-05-30, Canon PowerShot SD780

Day 08 - Canadian Rockies Vacation Photo Highlights

Panorama 01 left to right (reduced size): Athabasca Glacier, AB
2013-05-29, Canon PowerShot SD780
Panorama 02 cont'd left to right (reduced size): Athabasca Glacier, AB
2013-05-29, Canon PowerShot SD780
Panorama 03 cont'd left to right (reduced size): Athabasca Glacier, AB
2013-05-29, Canon PowerShot SD780
Panorama 04 (reduced size): Saskatchewan River Crossing View of Icefields Parkway 93, AB
2013-05-29, Canon PowerShot SD780

Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise, AB
2013-05-29 1648 hours, Canon PowerShot SD780

Day 07 - Canadian Rockies Vacation Photo Highlights

Panorama (reduced size): Lac Beauvert, Jasper NP, AB, 2013-05-28