September 21, 2013

The equinox brings autumn on September 22, 2013 at 4:44 P.M EDT.

Accessed from website this date:        http://www.almanac.com/content/first-day-fall-autumnal-equinox

Question: Why aren't there exactly 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness on the fall equinox? 

Answer: On the equinoxes, the very center of the Sun sets just 12 hours after it rises. But the day begins when the upper edge of the Sun reaches the horizon (which happens a bit before the center rises), and it doesn't end until the entire Sun has set. Not only that, but the Sun is actually visible when it is below the horizon, as Earth's atmosphere refracts the Sun's rays and bends them in an arc over the horizon.

Song birds have long departed, the croak of the crickets are prominent on the evening air tonight. Some trees are paling out and beginning to turn. The cooler early mornings are already welcomed. The flooding rain of last week has been replaced with reserved— more fall like weather… Dry, warm days, cooler night times and a peacefulness that is better felt when temperatures have moderated such as NOW!

September 5, 2013

What of a trip on the Colorado Plateau w/ the dog too, I was musing over.  This weekend might be just the right time. Have Saturday afternoon until Thursday— need to be at the job Thursday. Is this enough time to walk out in the desert and possibly onto the Book Cliffs?

Drive Sunday early— make it to somewhere WEST and sleep… then Monday figure out the terrain and the end of season weather. It is always the weather— is it not?

Eventually I would like to go to False Kiva and see what it is that is there… Like the arctic traveler or distance desert hiker   we go to experience the what it is and discover—> that is there, correct? Semantics…

Then Tuesday knock around in the weather somewhere. Sleep by river.

Wednesday… the long drive up Haul Road and to a decent spot— maybe under the trestle of the Georgetown Loop in Clear Creek Co. and Thursday morning back.

Just thinking out loud!