Early Christmas Card

 The transition from one season to another, not always in logical progression still brings me to consider how my life is being spent.

 

So here is a recent thought:

 

Since November 11, remember every day, there have been violent thunder storms and all the snow is gone,

 

WOB 

It began months ago

 And then it disappeared, carried by the Sun's rotation out of sight.

But then it, AR4274,  reappeared!

 AR4274 had returned.  It had been tracked via GONG, a global network of telescopes observing the Sun almost continuously since I first heard of it back in 1988. It is not often that sunspots survive a complete solar rotation.

 

But it did_

 I also observed it on Saturday November 8:

 

This sunspot group may have been responsible for the aurora seen during this time. Unfortunately it was cloudy wet here and I saw nothing but clouds and maybe a faint glow on the northern horizon.

And now solar rotation has carried it from view. Will it return in a few more weeks?

 

 WOB

I am stumped

 What a contrast between a day in early April and this day in early November:

 

 

If "all" is not lost,

where do I find "it"?

 

 The blue and yellow colours are to be found  elsewhere, too.

 

WOB 

DND radar sites in green-green environmentally sensitve Clearview township

 I am not a permanent resident of this region - I migrate through in Spring and Autumn, I cannot say "Ouch". I do have a long memory, I recall the debate about the "Bomarc" and felt the nuclear fallout over me:

 

 "Better Red than Dead"

A-OTHR   - "Eve of ..."

Good Bye, Ibykus ?

 

 

Green, green, it's "green" they say, ...

 

WOB