Greenmarket

I like Wednesdays at the UN, because the Samascott Orchards folk come down from Kinderhook in their truck and sell apples and cider and berries and apple muffins and apple oatmeal raisin cookies and so on, at the Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza Greenmarket. Yum. 

Mills Observatory

Have to send a shout-out to the Mills Observatory in Dundee, Scotland - the first observatory in the United Kingdom built entirely for public use, and the only observatory I've visited outside Hawaii.

Check out the observatory's page on Facebook.

UH 88-inch

 Check out this fan page for the telescope I used to run.  It's 40 years old this year.

Slowly learning Japanese

 Subaru bouenkyou no Bācharu Dan, desu. ^-^

Celebrities

In the course of my wanderings, I occasionally run into people who are kind of famous, and take pictures of them.  (I rarely think to take pictures with them, though!)  So, here are a few pictures of famous people I've photographed.

William "Will.i.am" Adams, rapper.

Elle Macpherson, supermodel.

Allan "Apl.de.ap" Pineda Lindo Jr., rapper.

Angelique Kidjo, Grammy-winning singer.

Today's pondering

I got rid of dial tone on my phone line, and just have DSL.  The phone company knows I don't have a phone... so why do they still give me phone books?

Koi-Nobori in Paris

In Japan, windsocks shaped like Koi (carp) fish are flown in the springtime, around the time of Children's Day in early May.  This year, I was sad because I had to travel to Europe during the season of the Koi, but it turned out all the flags that fly around the perimeter of UNESCO's headquarters in Paris were replaced with Koi-Nobori!  If you look carefully, you might spot the top of the Eiffel Tower amidst the Koi.