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Sunrise over Venus. I did not know that on Venus days are longer than years. Venus spins on its axis so slowly that it takes 243 Earth days for it to spin on its axis, but it takes 225 Earth days for Venus to go all the way around the Sun. So that's its "sidereal" day. But because Venus spins backwards to its rotation around the Sun, it's "solar" day, how long it takes the Sun to return to the…
Uprising in the farm fields
Sometimes you just need Fancy Spangled Fritillary butterflies feasting on milkweed.
One of the nation's former great newspapers.
Some Things Change for the Better
Remembrance on this Memorial Day
When you stand for something, lock arms.
This Ship Was Meant to Fly
Snow cover pine tree branches. Photo by Tim Foster on Unsplash Here in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area winter fell shortly after New Year's with a precipitous drop in temperature, and Monday morning we woke up to snow falling and several inches of the white stuff coating the tree branches, the walkways, and the roads. If you are watching the soft white flakes out the window, sparkling and…
