Happy Earth Day 2026 !! Spring set in early in the mountain west of the US this year, and trees and bulbs started blooming weeks before they usually do. And then there was a snow storm and seasons collided. This tulip in my backyard with its snow cover caught my attention to the beauty, fragility […]
Earth Day 2026 – perspectives from earth & space !! Read More »
Equinox, is a cyclic event and marks an exact moment when the Sun passes through the plane of Earth’s equator, and the earth’s axis is positioned such that it’s neither tilting toward nor away from the Sun, rendering the alignments to result in almost equal lengths of day and night times for the entire planet.
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An oil painting of Venice, I painted a few years back and titled it Reflections on water. A ‘floating city’ with its meandering waterways and the gondolas, Venice has captivated my imagination since I was a child. I first learnt about Venice, about a city built on water, in my geography class. Venice and its
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As we turn our clocks back today for Daylight saving time in most parts of the United States, I got to thinking about another kind of seasonal natural rhythm. That of plants keeping their ‘promise to bloom’ after long cold winter months, and the migratory birds keeping their ‘promise to return’ every spring in the
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It’s the last day of April and finally beginning to feel a little bit like spring in the Wasatch mountains and valleys after one of the snowiest winters in decades. As we welcome spring, feel the warmth of the sun’s rays, breathe in the fresh spring air, and hear the cacophony of birds starting to
Salute to an exceptionally long and snowy winter ! Read More »
“The Pale Blue Dot”, image of the Earth, smaller than 0.12 pixels taken by Voyager 1 spacecraft, as it was leaving our solar system in 1990, a legacy to all humankind, from the brilliant foresight of astrophysicist Carl Sagan, was the first thing that came to my mind this morning on this “Earth Day”.Carl Sagan’s
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“Its a breath of fresh air”, an idiom we often use to describe an invigorating experience was exactly what those of us living in the Wasatch front of Utah felt today, as we celebrate Earth Day 2022. It was as if Mother Earth was gracing us with kindness, washing away the dust and smog with
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Persevere, is the word which resonates as we move into another year after a tumultuous couple of years with covid19 pandemic upending our lives. As we’ve endured the effects of the covid19 pandemic collectively for the last two years, its hard to fathom we are not yet fully out of the woods. We embarked into
Happy New Year, 2022 Echoes – Persevere ! Read More »
Partial lock-down due to covid-19 and the resulting semi-isolation from our friends, family, co-workers, disrupting life as we knew it before this pandemic, is certainly taking a toll on all of us. The friendly banters, warm hugs, smiles and the very proximity of other human beings has now become a thing of the past due
Visitors bring joy during Covid-19 lockdown -Return of backyard migratory birds !! Read More »