Almost new moon
3 days before the new moon, before sunrise on Monday morning March 19th, 2012. This 15 second exposure was taken with a Canon powershot A495 camera on a tripod, looking…
blood suckers have arrived
no, not lawyers… mosquitos. Today is Sunday 2012 March 18, a wonderful hot day. A good seed savers meeting, back home to work in the greenhouse and a little bit…
Jupiter & Venus apparition
This is the series of nights where it has been clear, we’ve been home and able to do some imaging with our Canon Powershot A495 and A540 cameras on tripods.…
Clear skies before the storm
This morning a series of thunderstorms started rolling through the area, starting around 03:30 or so. We had many close by lightning strikes and at least two power outages. One…
Jann Arden in Kingston
Jann Arden was in Kingston last night, Tuesday 2012 March 13th at the KROCK centre. We had wonderful tickets courtesy of a christmas gift and thoroughly enjoyed the show. It…
Sir John’s Public House
Sir John’s Public House has been open since 2011 August and we have been there a few times. Awesome food… bangers and mash to die for, as well as the…
Daylight Savings Time is not
Sunday morning was yet another exercise in futility, wasted time! and effort for no good reason also known as Spring Ahead! for Daylight Savings Time. Personally we: -walked throughout the…
KAON Public Observing Session 2012 March 10th
We held the March Kingston Astronomy Outreach Network (KAON) session with the Queens Observatory Open house Saturday night from 7:30-9:00pm EST. Dr. Kristine Spekkens (Royal Military College) gave the 7:35-8:15…
More Jupiter & Venus
Here are two images from Sunday night after 21:00edt from our backyard, looking west at Jupiter (left) and Venus (right). The left image is a 15 second exposure and the…
Sheffield Conservation Area
Lennox and Addington County is considering setting up an observing area in the Sheffield Conservation Area, just off highway41 between Erinsville and Kaladar. We went up to check the place…
Fun with Plumbing!
Last weekend came a long procrastinated task… replacing the bath/shower fixture. It had been corroded for some years, been leaking for some months and we went out and bought a…
Three planet conjunction
Ok.. at least a two planet conjunction with Jupiter and Venus very close together in the Western sky. Going from left to right, Jupiter is first, Venus is second, Mercury…
Prep for Spring
It’s that time of the year… time to prep for spring. The greenhouse took some minor exterior damage in the windstorm of Saturday 2012 March 3rd. That will be fixed…
Seedy events upcoming
SEEDY SATURDAY and other events http://www.seeds.ca/ev/events.php Seed Sunday in Perth Ontario Canada Sunday March 4th 10:00-3:00 Royal Canadian Legion, 26 Beckwith St. E. Free Admission, gardening related talks and presentations,…
Eco Farm Day 2012
The Canadian Organic Growers Ottawa Chapter hosted the Eco Farm Day 2012 Conference in Cornwall this weekend (Feb 25, 2012). We drove up to Cornwall (normally a 90-100 minute trip,…