While St. Patrick’s Day is not usually celebrated at my ELCA-Lutheran Church – this morning: we found we raised more money for our solar panels than originally planned. It’s a good day to be green! We will have 10% more solar panels! #yay
PS: Seven continents tonight!
Milky Way Panorama from Mauna Kea
Image Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (TWAN)
There’s more including a view of the Southern Cross. The Big Picture is amazing.
JanF and I are endeavoring to bring you the news. She will update in comments, probably, once or twice a day. I will not post a new diary until Thursday, as we are crazy-town here in Casa jlms during Lent, which is 3 more weeks.
cross-posted in orange.
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, by Stefano in SE Idaho on flikr.com
JanF and I are going to give you news clues.
This is your open news thread through Sunday night.
I get stories from my twitter feed, or I look at various web editions of newspapers (in English) around the world.
Book Cliffs, Flickr user trosier. East-Central Utah, south of the Uintas and north of I-70.
Enjoy the view. The valley below is scheduled for fracking, which may not only impact the now-pleasant view, but contaminate the water in Lake Powell (and Lake Mead).
JanF and I team up to bring you news. Here is a big handful for Sunday evening. See you with a fresh diary mid-week.
notes: bombing in abbas, afghanistan? kenya elections?
This is NOT from Glacier National Park. It is nearby, and perhaps tweeted by a BLM person or a State Park person. I wish I had better attribution, I readily admit to nabbing this from the twitter.
UPDATE: commenters have identified the photo as Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska. So my twitter-radar was way off. I do have taking my kids to Glacier NP on my mind, and son and I are reading Ice Station Zebra.
Jan F and I are bringing your this Open News Thread! Watch for updates in comments! I’ll track this through Thursday, probably. Week is kinda busy ’til then.
I did find a little bird:
(in story below)
Photo credit to the National Park Service
Welcome to your Open News Thread! This diary will remain open and monitored through Sunday night, when I post my big fat diary. Jan F will add stories in the comments, and you are invited to add stories too.
Today my stories all came from twitter links.
People in China standing in line for a civil service exam.
Welcome to your nearly-nightly news diary that we leave open throughout the weekend! JanF and I are combining forces for an open news thread we hope will please all of you.
Please comment on any of the stories in the diary or comments, or share any news stories you like from anywhere! I tend to share lesser-known stories, and especially look for stories from original journalists w/ byline credits. And I frequently highlight my home state of Utah.
News stories may be added in comments throughout the day and night, so please stop back if you are inclined.
Welcome to your nearly-nightly news diary that we leave open throughout the weekend! JanF and I are combining forces for an open news thread we hope will please all of you.
Please comment on any of the stories in the diary or comments, or share any news stories you like from anywhere! I tend to share lesser-known stories, and especially look for stories from original journalists w/ byline credits. And I frequently highlight my home state of Utah.
News stories may be added throughout the day and night, so please stop back if you are inclined.
This will serve as the open news thread until Monday.
Warm sunny photo, Arches National Park, October 2012. Every photo I took of my kids, okay 95%, they had the sun in their eyes.
Welcome to your nearly-nightly news diary that we leave open throughout the weekend! JanF and I are combining forces for an open news thread we hope will please all of you.
Please comment on any of the stories in the diary or comments, or share any news stories you like from anywhere!
News stories may be added throughout the day and night, so please stop back if you are inclined.
This will serve as the open news thread until Thursday or Friday overnight.
Because sometimes we need warm sunny beach pictures.
Welcome to your nearly-nightly news diary that we leave open throughout the weekend! JanF and I are combining forces for an open news thread we hope will please all of you.
Please comment on any of the stories in the diary or comments, or share any news stories you like from anywhere!
News stories may be added throughout the day and night, so please stop back if you are inclined.
This will serve as the open news thread until Tuesday overnight.
2/3 of these came from my twitter and fb feed. 1/3 from my usual sources & topics, the last 5 in the International section. Because I am compelled to include Afghanistan (war), Pakistan (neighbor to Afghanistan & India), and India and China (population).