I took these shots along the Lower Wisconsin River on a cold day in February 2012. I spotted a (recently?) mature Bald Eagle sitting above what was presumably the nest she grew up in.
Cellon Oak Park is three miles south of La Crosse off highway 121 in rural Alachua County. For years I’ve driven the highways nearby and never knew this gem was there. The tree is magnificent in person. Well worth a trip!
Another amazing photo to set your mind spinning over the scale of the universe. Every object in the photo above is an entire galaxy each of which contains billions of stars! To quote the site…
The image shows a rich tapestry of 7,500 galaxies stretching back through most of the universe’s history. The closest galaxies seen in the foreground emitted their observed light about a billion years ago. The farthest galaxies, a few of the very faint red specks, are seen as they appeared more than 13 billion years ago, or roughly 650 million years after the Big Bang. This mosaic spans a slice of space that is equal to about a third of the diameter of the full Moon (10 arcminutes).
I’ve been a big fan of the RSA Podcast for several years now. All of these talks are worth listening too, and many are true gems! The best have been rendered in the brilliant “animated whiteboard” style of CognitiveMediaUK. I finally figured out how to create a “channel” for them on YouTube. Here is a sample by Daniel Pink, author of the book Drive.
It blew me away the first time I viewed it. Enjoy!
I recently made it back to my “homestead” in extreme Northern Minnesota to visit my friend Peter. One of our projects was to rehab the old sauna on our original property. It took us half a day to cut down trees, brush out the chimney, and clean up after the critters who had been using it as winter quarters for the past ten years. But it was worth it to have a real wood-fired Finnish bath!
Here’s a nice parallel from man to nature and back again.
The Incas worshiped mountains as deities. But directly visiting far away peaks was very difficult. So they used nearby rocks to stand in for the mountains. Here is one such “Picture Rock” from Machu Picchu…
I recently took this photo of natural picture rocks in the BWCA…
Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the Origins of the Arts - http://t.co/WjBjcE93 ("Great art pleases, informs, and provokes") 3 weeks ago
The Artful Reinvention of Klansman Asa Earl Carter - http://t.co/vQstsGLN (amazing story dual life!, author of The Education of Little Tree) 3 weeks ago
