The New Green...

Our first Chevrolet Volt showed up and was about to be delivered to it's new owners today - but I was able to get one quick photo of it before it left our premises..

I apologize for the picture quality-but it was the best I could do through my office window with my phone.

This Is What Brings Smiles on Christmas Day!

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I know this is not what Christmas actually stands for...but it sure does put a big smile on my face!!

Rare Sightings

I stayed up to see a rare sight tonight...A Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse" .

The following tells you just how long we will have to wait to see another one...

(This was taken from NASA's website) This lunar eclipse falls on the date of the northern winter solstice. How rare is that? Total lunar eclipses in northern winter are fairly common. There have been three of them in the past ten years alone. A lunar eclipse smack-dab on the date of the solstice, however, is unusual. Geoff Chester of the US Naval Observatory inspected a list of eclipses going back 2000 years. "Since Year 1, I can only find one previous instance of an eclipse matching the same calendar date as the solstice, and that is 1638 DEC 21," says Chester. "Fortunately we won't have to wait 372 years for the next one...that will be on 2094 DEC 21

Here are a few photos I snapped while chatting with the folks on the WVEC Eagle Chat (Thanks for the reminder, Sioux!)

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Cooper's Hawk Revisited...

Yes...He is still around-and I think he is here to stay.

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...When Birds Fly...

We now know to grab the camera and search the skies "when birds fly" ! I saw all the birds scatter and take off for the sky this morning so I grabbed the camera and was able to take these two poor quality pictures before the resident neighborhood hawk took off.

We have caught glimpses of him trying to catch a feathered snack -but we have not actually witnessed him being successful.