A VERY rare astronomical event is ongoing: 01/25/2025, 6 planets were aligned (Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Saturn, Neptune) on 02/28/2025, a seventh planet, Mercury will join. This will not happen again until 2492! Using my iPhone (I don’t have wide field lens for my Canon)
1) Venus is centered and Saturn lower left 2) is a very bright Venus and stars 3) out west window Jupiter is right of trunk & Betelgeuse of triple spoken infamy upper left. AFTER SUNSET GO OUT! LOOK WEST!!!!!
For such a large bird, bald eagles can sure tuck themselves into what appears to be a small space within a snarl of branches. However, the point of view is misleading. Bald eagle nests have a “front door” and at least one “side door”. As monitors it would be intrusive on this nest for us to approach from any other direction. We quietly monitor this mom eagle incubating her eggs through this crowded window.
The temperature this morning was 25°F. Wind was calm. There were people stationed all around Jordan lake this morning for the quarterly bald eagle count. Just after the count began this morning the sun began to unfurl its textures and mantle the skies in shimmering glory.
Will be posting eagle count totals at a later date.
Grayced and I awoke this morning to a covering of snow! I’m very fond of various herbal teas. This morning I had dandelion leaf and root tea. Later today, I will have green tea. Then early evening have my very favorite of all times tea: Earl Gray Bergamot. I think I’m all warmly teed up for the day … are you?
Grayced is already sound asleep, tucked against me. As I give him a good dreams ear rub, I realize once again how small a cat he is. Time to stop the meandering thoughts and breathe a meditation that each being can be warm this frigid night.
peace and grace, Doc Ellen
Grayced the Cat has settled down into my lap as I am checking the weather report for the night. The forecast looks very cold and very snowy all about. But here inside, the two of us together and quiet, it is warm. We both ask that each of you be safe, be warm and settle in for a peaceful night.
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