Blogging in Myrtle Glen

“Conversation about the weather is

the last refuge of the unimaginative”

[Oscar Wilde]

*laughs* so does this mean I am unimaginative when posting about the weather?   

Just look at the two pictures, and clouds are all about the weather.  Aren’t those clouds beautiful? They are called Mackerel clouds, why, because it is said they look like the scales of an adult Mackerel (now I am curious, maybe I should go to the fish market).

“Mackerel sky, mackerel sky. Never long wet and never long dry.”

The stars. Always there, unreachable, full of mystery and wonder. 

This morning, July 7th, Jupiter, Venus and a red star named Aldebaran formed an almost perfect line.

 Our amateur pictures should just be a little nudge for everyone to wake up early these days to see the stars with their own eyes, bright and beautiful. 

And a little later with some morning light:

And here is the link to the NASA Science page about why it is a good reason to wake up at dawn:  To the article