lunar eclipse now! well totals over but it wasnt dark then. still weird.
Did you see the red disk?
its a little hazy here. not sure.
I had to wait till it was well up and over before I realized the moon would be like always, rising in the east. I have been seeing some nice moonsets, at sunrise lately, so I was/am a little mixed up. It was cloudy at the time so I think I would not have seen anything anyhow.
Photo series: 1, 2, 3, 4
Thanks. I saw the red moon once. It was in Waco and I drove out in the sticks and stared up at it from shoulder of the highway, sitting in front of my parked car. Then noises in the dark creeped me out and I came home.
Thanks for the pics. I saw one once well enough to see the moon turn red. It was in the coastal town of Palacios TX, which is small and isolated enough that the light polution is low. I can imagine how freaky it looked to ancient people.
Ah yes, Pah LAH see os, TX. Remember it well.
When were you there?
Nostalgia drove me to google-maps the place. The rez is low, but I can make out the marina, the boat launch, and I think I can make out the pool at my grandfather's old place.
I know that area! My grandparents lived (and are buried) in nearby Brazoria.
My mother pushed to get the bay house. Her father was living in Mesquite with some old friends who owned a motel. She hated that place.
So we shopped for a place he could fish, and we could visit on the weekends. My grandfather lived in the finished part (upstairs). He and my father put walls, windows and ceiling in the downstairs. (It started with a slab, some plumbing and screens.) We went down there most weekends during the spring/summer for several years. He bought my brother and me a flat bottom boat and a 9 hp outboard motor. We wandered much farther than prudence would have dictated. We only stranded each other in the middle of nowhere once or twice. (We'd go back and pick up the other after long enough time to think about "walk, swim, or some of each".) I should probably spend some time writing about those years.
Thinking about it, I suspect Jim spent some time in the area when he was part of a geophysical crew.
Actually I was just trying to get Tom to correct my pronunciation. It's Puh LAY shuss, you idgiot. But yes, it was during my multiple brief stints as a doodlebugger that I worked the areas around Palacios.
It's a hellahcious area.
We called it puh-LAH-shuss, and the body of water trez puh-LAH-shuss bay. Although the demographics may have shifted. It was about 50% hispanic 50% anglo when I spent time time. But the anglo population seemed to be dropping, while the hispanic population seemed to be rising. And that was before the wave of Vietnamese immigration to Gulf Coast fishing communities.
By the way, my favorite Texas mispronounciation-on-purpose-cause-who-won-the-war: San Felipe. Rather than Sawn Fe-LEE-pay, its Sayan FIL-a-pee.
I remember the surprise at age 12 or so when a hispanic guy gave my family directions to Yano--cause we'd always called Llano Lano.
Unlike Plano, pronounced Play-no, Llano was pronounced Lahno.
I'm wrong, it wasn't Lahno, it was Lanno.
I bet Peggy Hill would have known that.
Well, Jimmy, now that you ask ... to reflect the May-hee-cain-oh heritage, which, afterall is one of my areas of expertise, the word is pronounced Yah-lay-noh.
- boggle_queen 3-05-2007 9:40 pm [add a comment] [edit]
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- boom-man 3-05-2007 9:42 pm [add a comment] [edit]
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- bill 3-04-2007 3:24 am
Did you see the red disk?
- mark 3-04-2007 5:30 am [add a comment]
its a little hazy here. not sure.
- bill 3-04-2007 5:56 am [add a comment]
I had to wait till it was well up and over before I realized the moon would be like always, rising in the east. I have been seeing some nice moonsets, at sunrise lately, so I was/am a little mixed up. It was cloudy at the time so I think I would not have seen anything anyhow.
- jimlouis 3-04-2007 3:39 pm [add a comment]
Photo series: 1, 2, 3, 4
- jim 3-04-2007 7:55 pm [add a comment]
Thanks. I saw the red moon once. It was in Waco and I drove out in the sticks and stared up at it from shoulder of the highway, sitting in front of my parked car. Then noises in the dark creeped me out and I came home.
- tom moody 3-04-2007 8:17 pm [add a comment]
Thanks for the pics. I saw one once well enough to see the moon turn red. It was in the coastal town of Palacios TX, which is small and isolated enough that the light polution is low. I can imagine how freaky it looked to ancient people.
- mark 3-05-2007 12:04 am [add a comment]
Ah yes, Pah LAH see os, TX. Remember it well.
- jimlouis 3-05-2007 12:12 am [add a comment]
When were you there?
Nostalgia drove me to google-maps the place. The rez is low, but I can make out the marina, the boat launch, and I think I can make out the pool at my grandfather's old place.
- mark 3-05-2007 5:19 am [add a comment]
I know that area! My grandparents lived (and are buried) in nearby Brazoria.
- tom moody 3-05-2007 6:01 am [add a comment]
My mother pushed to get the bay house. Her father was living in Mesquite with some old friends who owned a motel. She hated that place.
So we shopped for a place he could fish, and we could visit on the weekends. My grandfather lived in the finished part (upstairs). He and my father put walls, windows and ceiling in the downstairs. (It started with a slab, some plumbing and screens.) We went down there most weekends during the spring/summer for several years. He bought my brother and me a flat bottom boat and a 9 hp outboard motor. We wandered much farther than prudence would have dictated. We only stranded each other in the middle of nowhere once or twice. (We'd go back and pick up the other after long enough time to think about "walk, swim, or some of each".) I should probably spend some time writing about those years.
Thinking about it, I suspect Jim spent some time in the area when he was part of a geophysical crew.
- mark 3-05-2007 9:26 am [add a comment]
Actually I was just trying to get Tom to correct my pronunciation. It's Puh LAY shuss, you idgiot. But yes, it was during my multiple brief stints as a doodlebugger that I worked the areas around Palacios.
- jimlouis 3-05-2007 2:33 pm [add a comment]
It's a hellahcious area.
- tom moody 3-05-2007 3:08 pm [add a comment]
We called it puh-LAH-shuss, and the body of water trez puh-LAH-shuss bay. Although the demographics may have shifted. It was about 50% hispanic 50% anglo when I spent time time. But the anglo population seemed to be dropping, while the hispanic population seemed to be rising. And that was before the wave of Vietnamese immigration to Gulf Coast fishing communities.
By the way, my favorite Texas mispronounciation-on-purpose-cause-who-won-the-war: San Felipe. Rather than Sawn Fe-LEE-pay, its Sayan FIL-a-pee.
- mark 3-05-2007 9:58 pm [add a comment]
I remember the surprise at age 12 or so when a hispanic guy gave my family directions to Yano--cause we'd always called Llano Lano.
- tom moody 3-05-2007 10:14 pm [add a comment]
Unlike Plano, pronounced Play-no, Llano was pronounced Lahno.
- tom moody 3-05-2007 10:17 pm [add a comment]
I'm wrong, it wasn't Lahno, it was Lanno.
- tom moody 3-06-2007 4:14 am [add a comment]
I bet Peggy Hill would have known that.
- jimlouis 3-06-2007 4:44 am [add a comment]
Well, Jimmy, now that you ask ... to reflect the May-hee-cain-oh heritage, which, afterall is one of my areas of expertise, the word is pronounced Yah-lay-noh.
- boggle_queen 3-05-2007 9:40 pm [add a comment] [edit]
Yeah man, I tell ya what, man, that dang ol' internet, man, you just go in on there and point and click, talk about w-w-dot-w-com, mean you got nekkid chicks on there, man, just go click, click, click, click, click, it's real easy, man.
- boom-man 3-05-2007 9:42 pm [add a comment] [edit]
- mark 3-06-2007 5:41 am [add a comment]