30Sep/090
First Day of School
This picture was taken back on Sept. 1, which was Libby's first day of her "Mom's Day Out" program year:

29Sep/090
Po-tay-toes!
This spring we had some rotten potatoes beginning to sprout in our kitchen, so I planted them. I just dug up a few of them last week and they look pretty tasty:

Two have already been eaten - I made a small batch of homemade potato chips; they were delicious.
27Sep/090
The Hubble Ultra-Deep Field in 3D
What happened when Hubble was pointed to a small area of the sky, no larger than a grain of sand held at arms length, which looked completely empty:
(via boingboing)
25Sep/090
Autotuned Sagan and Hawking
The sky calls to us; if we do not destroy ourselves we will one day venture to the stars.
The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. Recently we've waded a little way out, and the water seems inviting.
