Posts Tagged ‘Cape May’

Some of the last shutter clicks for the replacement digital

©2010 WC Beauchamp

©2010 WC Beauchamp

2:00 PM, April 8, 2010. Just changed the look and format of the ionosphere weblog — with lots of adjustments to make now

Change is inevitable — so I’m changing this page layout

Just set up a new fixed width blog with what I hope will be easier to read text. All of my widgets and images in the main column will be out of whack for a while but it all will be lots better once I get it organized.  I used the latest version of Artisteer to mess with the theme and it worked out pretty well.

I had this blog design finished last month but Sue and I spent a long weekend down in Cape May and Passover then Easter came into play as well. Really nice here again today with temper­a­tures in the 80s but we are cooling off tonight and expect a line of strong thunder­storms before that happens. It has just been one extreme after another all winter long right into early Spring. I wrote a couple of long entries here about specific storms we’d had and sure enough the next week another would come along that was bigger and badder than the one that preceded it. All photog­raphy is currently offline. I took a shot at sunrise looking over the ocean from our deck and it was a fatal digital click that was heard in Cape May. I was fortunate enough to have captured a number of spectacular Victorians the day before though.

Is everyone aware that Cape May surely seems to be haunted? We were taking some shots at one of the old Hotels when a piece of siding hit the sidewalk a couple of feet away. With so many Nor’easters coming through over the past couple months — slightly hard to imagine that on this gust free, almost totally still day that a piece of siding just happened to coinci­den­tally float by…  Some pictures to follow later on.

©2010 WC Beauchamp

Sue and I drew pictures of Cape May Lighthouse from various angles. Unfortunately the museum and light­house itself was closed due to the off-season. Tree damage around the parking area there showed that they had the same nasty winds that we’d had recently. Never seen so many broken limbs in my life.

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A Chameleon Sky

 
The sands of time are running out for the central star of this the Hourglass Nebula. With its nuclear fuel exhausted, this brief, spectacular, closing phase of a sun-like star's life occurs as its outer layers are ejected and its core becomes a cooling, fading white dwarf. In 1995, astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to make a series of images of planetary nebulae, including the one above. Here, delicate rings of colorful glowing gas (nitrogen-red, hydrogen-green, and oxygen-blue) outline the tenuous walls of the 'hourglass.' The unprecedented sharpness of Hubble's images revealed surprising details of the nebula ejection process and may resolve the outstanding mystery of the variety of complex shapes and symmetries of planetary nebulae. Image Credit: NASA, WFPC2, HST, R. Sahai and J. Trauger (JPL)
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Monday, Sep 6
Partly Cloudy
Currently: 80˚F
Feels Like: 80˚ F
Hi: N/A˚, Lo: 61˚
Wind: 7, Gust: N/A MPH
Wind Direction: VAR (0)
Partly Cloudy

Tonight: 61˚
Sunset: 7:24 PM
Moon Phase: Waning Crescent
Clear

Tuesday, Sep 7
Hi: 90˚, Lo: 67˚
Wind: 14, Gust: N/A MPH
Wind Direction: SSW (204)
Mostly Sunny

Wednesday, Sep 8
Hi: 86˚, Lo: 58˚
Wind: 16, Gust: N/A MPH
Wind Direction: WSW (257)
Partly Cloudy

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digitech camera repair

You never really finish the design on one of these blogs. Something can always be improved and made better.

I feel relatively certain that text here can be read more easily than over the paper texture that I had created before. Yep.