Orb photo for comparison

Here’s an orb photo posted previously on this blog to compare with yesterday’s photo: Orbs or Snowflakes?

Close up of Orb

Orbs or Snowflakes?

You decide. Are these orbs or snowflakes?

Glowing white balls float in a winter snow scene - Orbs or Snowflakes?

Copyright (c) 2010 Carol Chapman

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?

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

“God Bless Us, Everyone!”

from Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, spoken by Tiny Tim on Christmas.

Ho Ho Ho!

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

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!

Bidding good-bye to a great Southern lady

Today I attended a funeral for a 91 and 3/4 year-old woman. I liked her. During the 15 or so years I knew her, she would always engage me in conversation making me feel welcome. She was the mother of six, grandmother of 12, great-grandmother of 25, and great-great-grandmother of two. I liked the amount of respect shown the funeral entourage as we wended our way along the streets, through the red lights, and finally to the cemetery for her final resting place. Many motorists driving in the opposite traffic lane stopped to pay their respects. Police cruisers led the cavalcade followed by the hearse. It was a cold day but motorcycled officers keeping cross-traffic at bay. As we entered the cemetery, the police officers who had been leading the procession, parked outside the graveyard and stood in front of their cruisers at attention, saluting. I felt grateful as I slowly drove past their saluting figures to the grave site. What a wonderful way to send off a grand old Southern dame! I’m going to miss her.

Mercury Retrograde Affects Emails

Wouldn’t you know it, in the middle of this Mercury Retrograde, my internet provider decides to change companies! And, true to form, the migration of my email account does not go smoothly and I have to contact tech support today. I am glad the technician figured it out … at last, but the solution is that my emails will now only open when I use only one browser – the others won’t work. This is a typical communication problem during Mercury Retrograde.

Dream Interpretation: Alien Abduction

According to Aunt Flo, a dream with an alien in it is:

This dream is often referred to as a nightmare as it generally indicates a crisis point of your life – where you seem to have no resolution. You need to analyze events that happened in your life recently as you feel that your spirit has been wounded. The message here is to start to look into situations which have resulted in you trying to overcome any conflict that you have experienced. The most useful change for you going forward is that you need to be able to be subjective in regards to your approach to situations with others. If you focus on looking at the practical matters in your waking life this will enable you to understand the background of complex situations, so you can find the best approach. A solution from another will be offered if you ask for help. Maybe you have been feeling that you have worked hard in order to get to where you are in life and that you are enjoying your projects and routine but you know that it is time to move on.

Analyze Dream: Alien

I like Dream Sleep’s analysis of a dream in which an alien abducts you. There’s a humorous irony in Craig Hamilton-Parker‘s dream interpretation. He points out that since you have awakened wherever it was you fell asleep (likely your bed in your bedroom), you have NOT been abducted by the alien in your dream. Therefore, it follows that likely the alien in your dream has a symbolic rather than real meaning. Here’s the first paragraph of the delightful article, Alien Dream Meaning:

Psychological meaning: Given that you have not been adducted during the night, to dream of an alien indicates that you have encountered part of the psyche which is unfamiliar to you. You may feel that this ‘unfamiliar’ part of yourself is hostile or an enemy. Your first step should be to find out what this ‘foreign’ part of yourself is and get to know this neglected aspect of yourself.