Tonight and over the weekend may be a great time for meteor watchers. It’s the middle of the Leonid Meteor shower, and this year the show could be more impressive than usual. As a comet travels in its circular path, it drops off small particles which, over centuries, may eventually trail through the comet’s entire [...]
By December of most years we’ve retreated from the northern cold, with our journey usually ending in the deserts of the Southwest. Some people go to the deserts only to escape – we return year after year because we love the open spaces, the low humidity, and the many desert creatures that live there year-round. [...]
A summer shower brings renewal, a cleansing of the air, the sky, and the land below. It replaces the dog days’ heat with air so brisk it snaps, and that alone makes up for the slight inconvenience of rain. But old mother nature has even more in store – as a finale – a rainbow. [...]
Easterners call it the seashore; in the west it’s known as the beach. Either way, that alluring band of land at the ocean’s edge attracts countless visitors hoping to escape the summer heat. There strange creatures live in a watery world of sand, rocks, shells, and seaweed. It’s a place for exploration at a snail’s [...]
In Colorado a tree exploded near our motorhome; shattered bark flew in every direction. In New Mexico thunderbolts crashed down on the ridge-top hiking trail that was our only route back to camp. In Florida lightning and thunder continued for seven hours until we gave up trying to get any sleep at all that night. [...]
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