Dusted the field across the road this AM, which meant it flew *real* low over my house. Giggity!
Jul 232013
Jul 222013
A bit before 10PM tonight, a twin-engined plane buzzed the area repeatedly. Seemed to be flying some sort of pattern. Couldn;t have been visual-light aerial photography given how dark it was. Might’ve just been someone screwing around, but there seemed purpose in it. Makes me wonder it it might’ve been some sort of air quality sampler or something, given that ATK is just on the other side of the hill.
Jul 162013
My neighbor has a bunch of sheep. Humans have spent millenia breeding them for their fur… not their brains. The result of that is that they are, as a species, dumb as fricken’ posts. Like this one, who spent a day with its head stuck in the fence. More, it put up an ill-conceived and poorly executed resistance effort when I freed it.
Insert reference to “sheeple.”
Jul 072013
Some recent photos taken at local sunset in Thatcher.
Jul 012013
Some photos from this evening.
Looking north, hoping to catch the aurora. They didn’t seem to be putting on a show tonight, but there was some weird coloration to the sky:
A closeup of either a meteor or satellite trail, showing two side-by-side trails:
A shot from earlier, when there was still a bit of light in the sky. Even here you can kinda make out a greenish glow:
And the Milky Way over my house:
Jun 012013
Putting my bronchitis-riddled lungs to the test, I went for a walk.
May 172013
An interesting geological phenomenon east of Ogden, Utah. Photographed a week or so ago on my way home. What you’re seeing is the result of land that has been uplifted in such a way that previously horizontal terrain has been tipped about 90 degrees; horizontal layers are now vertical. The layers are of differing hardness; two hard layers sandwich a softer layer, which has been scooped out via erosion. The result is a pair of walls or tracks that form what would be just about the most uncomfortable and un-fun kids slide imaginable.
The Utah Department of Transportation put a viewing area on the opposite side of the road, allowing pretty good views of the thing. But someone also strung phone lines right in front of it, planting a utility pole right next to it. Gah.
May 132013
A few days ago, just before bronchitis popped up to say “howdy,” I saw a remarkable display in the sky… concentric and *extremely* bright halo fragments, apparently 22 an 46 degrees. I’ve never seen halos this bright: generally I can only see them when wearing sunglasses; with the naked eye they’re just whitish smudges. This time they were astoundingly visible with the naked eye. And so of course I didn’t have a camera with me, just a low-end cell phone.
May 102013
Today was another exciting day of being uncomfortably sick. But it ended on a note of holocaust, so that was a mood-brightener.
About ten miles south of here, sometime prior to sunset some fire department or other decided to set fire to the swamp. This sort of thing is reasonably common out here, in a way… farmers generally burn off their fields. But this fire was *vast* in comparison. The photos below do a remarkably poor job of getting across the scale of the event, since there were few things to give a sense of scale to the flames.
From my back yard it looked impressive enough, but even though ill, I decided to hop in the car, get a better look and have a fabulous evenings apocalypse.
Like an idjit, I forgot to take the tripod. So as the evening wore on and the sky darkened, the photos got progressively shakier.
Apr 072013
A little while back some weather blew through late at night. Under the full moon, the clouds looked pretty interesting. Not all the photos, however, were terribly well composed. One in particular was the result of accidentally setting off the shutter release while still setting up the tripod.
