World Class Photographs Of Earth’s Beauty

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Thanks to the citizens of the USA, and the people they employ at NASA’s Earth Observatory, there is a large collection of photographs available free for the browsing.  Each day they upload new, amazing images of the planet, its weather patterns, geological formations, etc.  Case in point: high resolution versions of the photos above, providing fine-grained details, can be found here, here and here.

From West to East: A Road Trip Journal (Part 2)

Carl on McClures Beach

This is the second in a series of posts on a summer trip; see the first here.

In the afternoon we were off, driving up the west coast without any real plans; we knew we wanted to be in Seattle in four or five days, but that intervening time period was ours to spend as we wished. From a quick glance at the map, we thought that Point Reyes, a national coastline a few hours north of the bay area, Continue reading →