Meade got some pictures of me. I made it to the vantage point. I'll save my pics for later.The sunrise is so early at this time of year. And with the sun moving north and the leaves coming out, my alternative vantage points are far more limited than in winter, when the sun is all the way to the south. We're not yet where we need to leave the house before 4 a.m. to catch the sunrise, but that time is approaching. The warmer weather is nice, but eventually it's too hot, and the longer periods of light are good, but it becomes impossible to get a full night's sleep unless — like a little kid — you begin sleeping before twilight ends. To catch the sunrise, we need to leave the house about when civil twilight begins. Today, that was 5:16. Civil twilight ends at 8:32 p.m. today. So you can see how nature is crunching in on this sunrise ritual!
On the up side, we were back at the car at 6:10 and in a great position to head downtown and park, free, just off the square as the Farmer's Market was opening up. Start time: 6:15. We bought morels, sweet potatoes, and Italian sausage and flew the coop before the crowds materialized. It was funny driving home. We'd had a very active day, but it wasn't yet 7 a.m.
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"Wake up," said Emily, "The light outside is heavenly"
She takes another picture then she cries..
"Ain't this the sweetest life? No pain or human sacrifice..
Just you and me and strawberry skies"
-Tears for Fears
I like this latitude, but there is too much light in the summer.
And too much southern hemisphere night sky hidden.
Beautiful sunrise. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning. Just sayin.
Might be a good day to do something in the kitchen with those morels.
I like the jacket but the color is fall. Need a matching jacket in a spring color
Two things I miss about living in Michigan in the spring: Morel mushrooms and fiddlehead ferns.
It reminds me of that army commerical - "We do more before 6 Am than most people do all day". Which was an odd selling point.
I love the early dawn of spring and summer. The best thing is waking up in civil twilight. Getting up in the dark always seems weird.
When I was a kid we had our choice of bedrooms, and i chose the one facing east, so i could awaken with the sun streaming in.
RCOcean- you beat me to it:
https://youtu.be/xt-9dQ84LBg?si=baL4CjNFTonuTzcI
JSM
“It’s a pretty wonderful life.”
Warren Buffett
When rushing to the vantage point, you're at a disadvantage. It's coming at you at over 700 miles an hour.
“It’s a pretty wonderful life.” ~ Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett sells stocks for tenth quarter in a row
Veteran investor says ‘trade should not be a weapon’ in dig at Donald Trump’s tariffs policy ~ FT
Buffett called tariffs “an act of war, to some degree” and said they amounted to a tax on goods. “The tooth fairy doesn’t pay them,” he said.
The sage has spoken…
When Warren Buffett believes markets will suffer, other investors should take note.
"Let's revisit this at the end of 4Q 2025."
You didn't even last one day.
Rarely am I ever that far north, but I always wonder how folks handle 18 hrs of daylight and 6 hrs of darkness in the middle of summer. That would drive me crazy.
I’m okay with that time of day but I also enjoy sleep. I do get tired of the die hard early to risers lecturing me on the superiority of done by 7am…
…and I am weirded out by twilight at 10:30pm. My parents in Chelan had that in the summer. Go to bed sun…
Every morning for the past month or so I’ve been seeing what I thought was a planet and it turns out to be a bright star from Andromeda. It peaked my curiosity because I thought when is this planet supposed to go away? I reloaded my SkyView Lite and as woke libs would say ‘educated’ myself.
“Mirach, also known as Beta Andromedae, is a variable and multiple hypergiant star in the constellation Andromeda. It's the 55th brightest star in the sky, with a visual magnitude of 2.06. Mirach is a red giant star, located about 197 light-years from Earth.”
OG Mike writes: ‘You didn't even last one day.’
Tariffs are just kabuki to satisfy his base. Take an extreme position, back down gradually, and finally declare victory even though nothing actually changed. His first term “renegotiation” of NAFTA demonstrated the playbook.
"“Mirach, also known as Beta Andromedae,"
Are you sure it's not Alpheratz or Almach? There are three stars in that general area, all of essentially the same magnitude.
You ignored my point, KaKa. Shockers.
Take an extreme position, back down gradually, and finally declare victory even though nothing actually changed
…even if it happens that way- immediate stimulus. More likely there’s some renegotiation with US victories. The US is the big economic gorilla. Now we’re acting like it…
The Wisconsin dress code requires a black, dark gray or deep brown jacket. Bright tans are eschewed whether for fall or spring (but the defiant wear them anyway.) In Wisconsin, they study your face for signs of instability if you have a pastel jacket although Florida clothes are allowed for short periods on return from the Blessed Land. But the May Corollary is that if the sun can be seen and it is May and you are a guy, then it is warm and you can take off your jacket and wear a clean, well-fitting T-shirt and shorts to shovel the snow from the previous night. The Code is no harder to understand than the difference between the equator and the ecliptic.
The app said Mirach. I know because I took a screenshot, so i would not pass on miss information.
Paint it pastel.
Lem, you can confirm by identifying Almach to its left (north) and Alpheratz to its right (south).. Almach is a beautiful double star in a telescope.
Hey I wonder what the catholic trumpers up in here think about his dressed up like Pope and Posting it on web. Thats definitely not sacrilege right, after all what convicted felon, court adjudicated sexual offender wife cheating,hate the poor person should n't do that to get a rise! Pope Don the Con really adds legitimacy with that group of people Better say a few thousand hail marys' and our fathers behind that huh. He should have posted with Stormy giving him communion that would be a real snap huh...pretty gross man,but I know who loves it,,own them libs right..that should do it. Sick very....
The morels must have been expensive. As I understand the art of mushroom cultivation, morels still must be gathered (garnered) in the wild.
@dinky
Slow very?
I love morel hunting. My in laws always send some from the PNW. Supposedly there are morels here but I’ve never seen one and when it’s time to look it’s also time for slytherin to come out…
Morel mushrooms and fiddlehead ferns.
Y’all get ramps? I miss ramps, too…
Not to be confused, one hopes, with the vanishing point.
Warren Buffett to retire as CEO at year end.
Ramps? OMG, I didn't know ramps were a thing outside Appalachia.
Meade is fond of garlic, fond enough that he raises his own, or did formerly. To those unfamiliar, the ramp is a wild herbaceous plant with the onion/garlic tribe, specifically Allium tricoccum. I never tried ramps because of the associated folklore -- Eat ramps at breakfast and smell of them for a week.
within the onion/garlic tribe
I usually don’t see the sunrise in the winter because I don’t like staying up that late. It’s getting easier now.
They show up on menus in New England about this time of year. I’ve never had them raw but cooked they’ve always been mild, more like a leek…
I kinda hate June July in Montana because I must exercise when it's cool and yes that means going to bed when it's still bright sunlight out.
Allium tricoccum goes by about a dozen common names, all of them apparently derived from its Old English source hramsa. Ramps, which seems to both singular and plural, was the name used by the 17th century colonists of the Carolinas and persists in Appalachian culture today. I'm surprised to find that term in used in New England given the variety of other names more commonly found in the culture of SE England.
…and for you newly minted armchair economists here’s the WSJ to pile on- oh…wait…Trump’s policies have created headwinds, but the U.S. economy is pushing through them. Fox Butterfield-ish that is…
Rarely am I ever that far north, but I always wonder how folks handle 18 hrs of daylight and 6 hrs of darkness in the middle of summer.
Handle it? I love it. I'm a night owl, so in the summertime I'm still up at 4:15 am working in the yard. Plenty of time to sleep when the days/nights are reversed in the winter.
1st pic is nice, 2nd pic is really good
"Rarely am I ever that far north, but I always wonder how folks handle 18 hrs of daylight and 6 hrs of darkness in the middle of summer."
I've wondered about the opposite: how far-northerners get through the dark winter. Mass S.A.D. must have been behind the Vikings' urge to go south and conquer. And why every version of the Russian empire is so paranoid.
JSM
how far-northerners get through the dark winter.
Darkness at 4:15 pm isn't pleasant. Plenty of Vitamin D, and a countdown to Winter Solstice for mental health. And alcohol.
Stars at 4:15 is great! It's the cold that's the challenge.
The extra dark in the winter used to bother me. Now, I like it because it gives me a period that feels like evening and it's always dark when I'm ready to sleep (which is often at 9 pm). I am always up in time to make it out for the sunrise.
In the summer, it's harder to place my sleeping time in darkness. Too much day!
From the Georgia Bureau of Investigation:
“Operation Lights Out” Targets Online Sexual Predators, Leads to 19 Arrests including Human Trafficking Charges
"Columbus, Georgia (April 28, 2025) – A four-day proactive online undercover investigation, coordinated by the Georgia Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and the Muscogee County Sheriff’s Office, resulted in the arrest of 19 people on numerous charges, including human trafficking charges. The operation, named “Operation Lights Out,” ran from April 24 through April 28, 2025."
(snip)
Last one on the list:
"Carl Sprayberry, age 32, of Columbus, Georgia, occupation: chef; charged with Human Trafficking.
Additional charges and arrests may follow."
About Carl Sprayberry...
Failed Dem candidate who allegedly talked about killing Trump arrested in child sex trafficking sting in Georgia
"Advocating for the murder of an American president may not have been the most vile thing Carl Sprayberry did online.
Georgia authorities arrested 19 men over the course of a four-day sting operation aimed at flushing out sexual predators keen to molest and/or traffic children. Among those charged was a failed Democratic politician who apparently previously discussed killing President Donald Trump online.
While ultimately executed from April 24 to 28 by the Muscogee County Sheriff’s Office, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and the Georgia Internet Crimes against Children Task Force, Operation Lights Out was apparently the result of months of planning and the collaboration of 12 law enforcement agencies at the federal, state, and local levels, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Secret Service.
Undercover investigators posing as children engaged in conversation with various suspects on social media, dating websites, and other online platforms. In a number of exchanges, suspects allegedly "directed conversations with the child toward sex."
According to the GBI, 35 cases were established that met the threshold for arrest on the basis of the investigators' interactions online. However, in the 19 cases that ultimately resulted in arrests, suspects attempted to meet the "child" in person."
More, much more, at the link.
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