No Time to Die

This is a no-spoiler review, and the odds are that you have already seen the movie anyway. We caught it on Vudu, a PPV movie […]

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As Easy as PEI

I decided last night that we would have PEI mussels for dinner this evening. I got my ingredient list together, and headed off to the […]

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Medicine Man

This afternoon, I read a Medscape item on Phase I trials of medicinal mushrooms and Chinese herbs as treatments for COVID. The mushrooms in question […]

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Pho, please

I think that the first time I had pho was sometime in the late 1990s or early 2000s. My supervisor at the State Long Term […]

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Return of the Lepidoptera

This afternoon we saw Queen butterflies and even a Question Mark butterfly visiting the Blue Mistflower. The Queens are very graceful, and the Question marks […]

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Last Night Under the Stars

Last night’s targets included globular clusters Messier 2 and Messier 56, galaxy Messier 77 and galaxy NGC 253. All of the images below are composites […]

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Bioluminescence

You most likely know that it means the ability of some living things to emit light – to glow. Examples from nature abound: glow worms, […]

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Another Night Under the Stars

I spent much of last night doing astrophotography. Below is my most successful capture. The object is M15 – a globular cluster in the constellation […]

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