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After the Snowstorm …

Unbelievably, after weather announcers proclaimed that we, in the mid-Atlantic region, are having the coldest winter in 30 years, today‘s outside temperature was 60 degrees Fahrenheit. In the previous weeks, we had overnight temperatures in the teens.

I guess 60 F is closer to normal because I remember a number of New Year’s Days at this temperature. One, we were strolling in a nylon jacket at the beach.

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Close ups of the orbs/snowflakes to compare with orb close up

Here are close ups of two of the orbs/snowflakes from the wintry scene nature photograph posted on this blog on December 27th. I magnified these “orbs” to see how they would compared with the orb picture close up posted yesterday. As you can see, yesterday’s orb has an internal border and internal organization. The close ups of the orbs or snowflakes do not. What do you think now? Are the following images orbs or snowflakes?

Orbs or Snowflakes Orb or snowflake close up

On the left, a close up of two “orbs” floating in the December 27th wintry scene. On the right, a close up of an “orb” photographed against a tree trunk.

Copyright (c) 2010 Carol Chapman

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A planetary nebula, an extraterrestrial … or what?

What is the image? A planetary nebula photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope? A one-eyed extraterrestrial in a puffy spacesuit, floating over the colorfully glowing console of its spaceship? Or what?

A nebula, an extraterrestrial ... or what?

One glowing eye peers through the spacesuit of an extraterrestrial floating over the console of its spaceship ... or is it a planetary nebula ... or what?

Or, could it be the outdoor lights on my boxwood shrubs under the worst snowstorm on the Mid-Atlantic Coast in 30 years!

Photograph Copyright (c) 2010 Carol Chapman

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Inspirational Quote from Movie Musician

A great inspirational quote from my friend Melinda McKenzie, who beautifully plays the oboe in “Prayer, Duet, and Dance,” a composition for piano or organ and oboe by Deborah L. Carr. I used part of this delightful and magnificent piece as background music in my movie Yucatan Travel: Cancun to Chichen Itza. The “dance” part of the composition is a tango – fantastic for giving a Spanish flair to a movie set in Mexico.

Here’s the inspirational quotation from Melinda:

    You can’t save people from themselves.

Isn’t that great!

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