Napanee Community Food Bank Garden – 17 years!
At a recent Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society and Garden Club meeting (2026 June 17) it was noted that the club gave a donation to the ongoing efforts of a…
Thoughts from Starlight Cascade
Gardening and Astronomy Adventures from K&K outside Yarker Ontario Canada
At a recent Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society and Garden Club meeting (2026 June 17) it was noted that the club gave a donation to the ongoing efforts of a…
From an article I wrote back in 2024: –cut here– We drove out to the Summer Saskatchewan Star Party in 2006. We arrived on site and had one of the…
VegBed#1, first built in 2002, has been moved a couple of ties and rebuilt with garden ties, with the thought that they would last longer. They did not. We also…
Every spring one of the chores/unpacking from winter is the cleaning of the pond. This year we actually took it out, all the rocks, added some more soil and replaced…
Saturday evening was my 12th imaging session of the year… and cold enough that my sinuses were not happy this morning! Last night was a special event.. the moon Callisto…
A fun filled day with local gardening experts and vendors. Showcasing Greater Napanees’ talented residents in all things horticulture related. Best and Bash Arena 16 McPherson DriveNapanee, ON Four area…
A nice clear sky greeted us Tuesday evening after a dumping of white cold feathers the previous 24 hours. Seeing was a little better than average (6/10) but then went…
Last night was a good example of the downside of rolloff observatories. Yes it was clear but it was also very windy and gusty and the Telescope was vibrating like…
Napanee Community Food Bank Garden 2025 2025 Note: The Data Process: Raw harvest data is transcribed from the logbook onsite into an excel spreadsheet. Quantities are converted from all kinds…
If you can believe it, this is the first Jupiter imaging session since January 9th.. Better yet, Jupiter was near its highest altitude, so less air to look through, than…
Up at 04:30 EST this morning , bundling up in the -18.2C temperature, to image as much of the total lunar eclipse that we could. We used a Canon DSLR…
Finally had time to start testing alternative wordpress themes and have found one that is much better than the last. Will try this one out and do a little customizing.
We finally got around to updating the php version… and that broke the wordpress theme that we have had for over a decade. So now the search begins for a…
Aurora last night… with a KP index reaching 8? We went out in the evening to take some DSLR image and they were ok. Nothing spectacular… we have had better.…
It’s been a winter. Last year I think we had to snowblow 3 times. This is #8. At least 3 ice storms, snowstorm, melt, snowstorm, melt, etc.etc. We had +7C…