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A slim crescent moon setting: a treat to behold while setting up for an all night Messier Marathon at the VIS at 9200 feet.
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Bloomin’ Beauties!?!
Not the bells of St. Mary’s; but they are fun to play and sound pretty nice. Art sculpture at Pu’a Mau Place, North Kohala, Hawai’i Island.
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Out of Thin Air …
A Mauna Kea Sunset at 9200 feet can sure make clouds more tolerable. Almost acceptable, actually 😉
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Holiday Greetings From Hawaii!
I have been adding pictures and links to this posting; but I got it posted while it was still Christmas AND 2008! 😉 Who knows?…I may add more!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Aloha Dear Family, Friends, and any Envious Unknowns 😉
Well, we have come to another year’s end and are readying to ring in another new year! … gulp … ALREADY!?! This year our Holiday Letter is here on my Blog!
One of the great floats in the Waimea Christmas Twilight Parade on December 6, 2008. May you have a safe and fun-filled Holiday 2008-2009 Season filled with pleasant new memories for your journals, photo albums, and scrapbooks! I don’t believe that I have ever attended this many pot lucks, parties, and get-togethers in this short of time before in my life! The sense of ‘community’ is GREAT! I rarely encounter a “Mr. (or Ms.) Grinch” 😀
As many of you know by now, Andy applied for a job at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii on the Big Island in early 2006 and major excitement ensued. After several telephone interviews were conducted with Andy, WE (not just He) were invited to the Big Island in October 2006 for face-to-face interviews (and a day on the summit of Mauna Kea to assess Andy’s ability to hold up and function at an elevation of nearly 14,000 feet).
While Andy was interviewing, I checked out as much of Waimea (Kamuela per the US Post Office) and Waikoloa as I could in four days. It was great! When we got back home, we anticipated the call because we felt that everything went so well and the possibilities were VERY attractive. He has been regularly posting his activities on his Blog at http://www.darkerview.com/darkview/ since.
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Halema`uma`u Gas Plume
Just a few days ago, the Halema`uma`u crater started expelling ash from its new vent.
Check out this blog entry from March 25, 2008: http://darkerview.com/ courtesy of my husband, Andrew Cooper.
And check out photos at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory where they keep the activity status fairly up-to-date:
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/images.html
It is exciting to be so close to the activity and intriguing to consider what may happen next…?!?!?!
(Transferred from my GadgetGypsy.Xanga.com blog)
*Links and info updated 3 July 2016.
