corner view "rough"

Even though I'm in Hawaii and we've also been receiving a little rain and an expected hurricane this weekend, it hasn't been too rough. :P Well, maybe the waves have been thanks to the winter swells coming.
I personally love the sunny weather but the rain is nice for a few hours... or minutes (Hawaii time).

What has been rough more than anything is applying for colleges. There's lots of work to decide what schools to apply to and to get everything organized. And there are lots of essays to write. But I feel happy about how things are turning out.

The first application was the most work. I just finished! It feels so good! Now I'm ready for the hurricane. :P

Thanks Francesca for hosting. :)

HELLLLOOOOO HAWAII!

I'm BACK! HOME IN MY TROPICAL WONDERLAND! Oh how I've missed it. LA is nice but my home is perfect. I traveled all over the world. From Paris, to Italy, to LA to Gary, Indiana. And there's no other place on Earth I'd rather live than this:

corner view "four legged"

I've always wanted a pet, but my Dad is allergic to just about everything with fur. A while ago, we went to our friend's house and stayed there for a while. They had two horses and two cats and three kittens. My favorite was Callie.

But, a kitten will never happen, so I guess I'll have to settle with dreaming about owning chickens one day.

For more corner views, click here to meet our lovely host, Francesca.

What I Woke Up To This Morning

Sorry I didn't do my corner view, I had a bad cold. So here's a post to make up for it. :)

corner view "evening sky"

Here's my evening sky I see from my window every night. :)

Sometimes gray and filled with light

And sometimes pink and orange. More tropical, don't you think?

For more evening skies, go visit my mom, Theresa and her sidebar. 

corner view "organic form"

All of these shapes are unique. So different. But, I can see them all in my backyard, or within five minutes from my house. :)

For more organic shapes, go visit my mom, Theresa and her sidebar.

corner view "winter"

 Here's my winter. No snow. Little rain. Lots of sun!

For more winters, (more frosty ones) go visit my mom, Theresa.

Being Here (On Earth)

Isn't life just beautiful?

corner view "rain"

Some people don't like the rain.

I love it! Whenever it rains I go outside. (It's always warm here.) I take an umbrella and my iPod and I go out for a walk.

Usually it looks like this.

But sometimes, you'll catch this.

P.S. For more thoughts about the sky, see my blog post below. 

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Can you believe we are in there, somewhere?

As even amateur nerds know, light travels at 186,000 miles per second. Much faster then even my Dad's car. :)
The Moon is 1.3 light seconds away from Earth.
The sun is 8.5 light minutes away.
Saturn is 84 light minutes away.
Pluto is 250 light minutes away.

Now here's the wild part...
The next sun beyond ours is 4.2 light years away.

I really like the name of this cluster of stars -- The Dumbbell Nebula. Named because the disc-like shape reminds the eye of a dumbbell (not because the nebula is dumb).  If it was dumb, we'd never know it, because it's a thousand light years away.

The Blinking Eye Nebula probably sees the light of the Dumbbell nebula the same time we do because it's two thousand light years away.

The Bug Nebula and the Red Spider Nebula are four thousand light years away.

The Rotten Egg Nebula and the Boomerang Nebula (I kid you not) are five thousand light years away.

Moving right along, the Black Eye galaxy is 17 light years away from our fists, but it got beat-up anyway.

The tadpole Galaxy hasn't quite found its way out of the pond. In fact, it's 420 million light years away from the nearest known pond.

Three billion light years away is a galactic cluster called Abell 2218; which makes you wonder, is there a Cain 2218? Or don't they have a choice between good and evil three billion light years from us?

Finally I leave you with Hubble Ultra Deep Field Galaxies -- the most distant galaxies known. Formed when the universe was a mere eight hundred million years old. An infant compared to it's present age of more than thirteen billion years old.

If we could get our hands on the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Galaxies, would we figure out a way to turn them into the Hubble Ultra Deep Fried Galaxies? Traveling long distances does make us hungry.

Thanks to my Dad to turning me onto all the weird names and inserting some of his weird humor.

Unlike a lot of the things humans say, everything I just wrote is true!

Here's looking at you, kid...

Regards,

From the Red Eye Nebula:

corner view "autumn"

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.  ~Albert Camus

Where I am, we don't have seasons. It's summer all the time! :) So I take advantage of it when I can when we travel in autumn, which is rare. 


I've always imagined sitting in front of a fire on a chilly autumn night. But if we sat in front of a fire here? Yuck! 


My best autumn memory was in California, one November. My mom came out with my little sister and me and we jumped in piles of leaves for hours. :)


For more autumn (real autumn) go to the side bar on my mom, Theresa's Blog.

corner view "green"

My mom is the type of mom that gets an idea in her head and sticks with it. Not only does she stick with it, she drags the whole family along too. Composting, for instance is one of these examples and is not one of our favorite chores.

Recently, Annabel and I took the job of doing the laundry every day. But we don't just wash it and put it in the dryer, like everyone else, we have to wash it, go out, hang it, let it dry, fluff it in the dryer, fold it and put it away. Maybe some of you folks in Europe do that and all of your friends and neighbors do that, but where I live, no one does that. They just pop it in the washer and then the dryer and call it a day.

 Pictures from Google

We also have to do the compost. YUCK! Pardon if I'm offending any compost fans out there, but it's gross. You put rotting food and rotting grass together and it creates food for plants. Thank goodness it isn't food for people - though it started that way, now didn't it?

But one thing I really don't mind, is recycling. We have to separate all of our paper and cardboard here, but in some places, there's no sorting involved. Over a period of months, not sorting saves you lots of time, ladies and gentlemen.

Upon further reflection, the laundry and recycling isn't all that bad. Especially if you're listening to music or if you have someone to talk to. And you're helping the earth at the same time! (It's the compost no one likes.) But, I guess I'll get used to it. :)    Looks like he did...!

corner view "animals"

What would this world be like without animals? I don't wanna know. Probably empty. Probably dead. The human man is an animal, but we are more capable of certain things. We have hands and feet. We can put things together, we can invent. We can reason, we have free will. Animals live by instinct.

But we're not better. Killing some animals for food is part of the food chain. But killing animals for fur and oil? Killing elephants for their tusks? We can live without those things. If we can invent a computer or a light bulb, invent your own fur. Invent your own oil. Sculpt your own tusks!  

So many species are going extinct because of different reasons. But most of those reasons are caused by Man.

Cutting down trees, global warming, killing animals... Do we want to destroy these wonderful creatures and make this world unrecognizable to our children and grandchildren? No animals? No forests? No arctic life? We create that for ourselves. We cut down the trees. We pollute the air. Oh, we say, they'll take care of it. They who? It's us!

If we don't make a difference, our children and grandchildren will never see these beautiful creatures like I do.

All of the animals listed above are endangered. There will be none left on the face of this earth if we don't help them!

And the gorilla. There's only about 700 left in the entire world! I live by the ocean. I see whales swimming in the waters. I've been on a boat and seen whales up close. I've also gone scuba diving and seen turtles. These are wonderful, beautiful animals.

This beautiful creature is almost extinct. There are only about 30 Amur Leopards left in the world. This little baby might die in extinction. We have to stop this! We have to make a difference.

And there are none of these left in the wild! Only in zoos. 

The panda, the tiger, the rhino, they're all endangered. Help them. Look for somewhere you can donate to help save the animals. Don't buy fur coats to support people that kill animals. Let's make our difference while we've got the chance.