space-pics:

[S]paceplanes of Human spaceflight infographic
http://space-pics.tumblr.com/

Okinawa_32.jpg by ext237 on Flickr.

Nice collection of personal photos taken around the base I was stationed (Camp Machiminato, outside Naha) at around the time I was there (1979)!

M-240 machine gun at the ex-USNS Saturn by Surface Warriors on Flickr.

Fire at the waterline, sailor!

My earliest memory is sticking my hand up, inside the chute of the milk machine at Bay Shore Trailer Park - because it gave me a shock! 

pre1923:

“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost.

Mountain Interval, 1916.

My very favorite poem, “The Star-Splitter,” encapsulates nicely the struggle of the amateur. Whose love, not unrequited, also knows no bounds.

“It wouldn’t do to be too hard on Brad

About his telescope. ”

Family Astronomy Day at Custer Observatory Ca. 1994

Custer Institute, Inc. Main Bayview Rd., Southold, Long Island, NY

631-765-2626

The observatory is open most Saturday nights. Hosted by volunteers, the public is encouraged to use many of the fine telescopes.