Painting Project

Today I'd like to post some pictures of my latest home improvement project - painting the garage door and trim.




It's pretty bad when the paint is curling up like this. Ouch.












Time to dust off my painting shtuff.

These pictures are sort of a 'before' and in a later post I'll show the progress I've made.

The weather has not been cooperating - haven't had must rain-free weather where the temperature stays above 50 degrees (F that is - AKA 10 degrees C) for 24 hours so the paint can dry properly.

http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/tempfc.htm - here's the link for converting between F and C temperatures.

Wordless Wednesday

Time for a Wordless Wednesday. This one is for people who can read sheet music and know Mozart.

Enjoy!

Oh, and follow your dreams.

Astronomy - Orion & Cygnus

Here are a couple really cool pictures from apod.nasa.gov.

First, Part of the Orion constellation - 3 stars on the left are easy to see at night, but then when you zoom in with some really powerful telescope - so much more. Cool. This picture is from many pictures 'digitally stitched' into one.

Plus, here's a black hole - this one I don't think is a photo. Looks like an artist's picture, but very cool anyway. Cygnus X-1 is the name. Rush made a cool song about this decades ago. They had an album, A Farewell To Kings, and their big song was Closer To The Heart. They had another song, Cygnus X-1 - great song, but no one cared about it if they heard Closer To The Heart. Oh well, I guess black holes don't make good songwriting material compared to songs about the heart. Makes sense.

I Heard It Through The Grapevine

Grapes - From my grapevine - HOME-GROWN!!! !!! !!! !!! !!!

Here are the first grapes pulled off of my grapevine. I believe they are Concord grapes.

I had to shoo away the wasps that apparently love these grapes.

NASCAR - MARK MARTIN - YES - MARK MARTIN!!!

OK, tonight - Mark Martin.

If you are not sure why he is on this post, go to:

http://www.nascar.com

Look for "Standings" and then "Sprint Cup".

Then look for #1 ! ! !

Motivational Poster

Here is a very inspiring motivational poster.

Wordless Thursday - 3D Holographic Image

In this post I am doing a Wordless Thursday, and I'm also going to give you something to discover in a picture. This is a 3D holographic image. You have to kind of stare into the picture, move your head towards the screen, then away from the screen, as you try to focus your vision on a 3D image embedded within the patterns.

I find if you click on the picture and look at the enlarged version of it, it's easier to see the object within.

Good luck. What is it?