Showing posts with label Jupiter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jupiter. Show all posts

Thursday, September 23, 2010

365 Million Miles

Here is a photo we took of Jupiter orbiting 365 million miles from Earth. There's something crazy about looking up into the sky and seeing this shining orb and knowing that it is the LARGEST planet in our solar system. We took a look at it through our little binoculars and saw three moons. THREE MOONS! There we were looking at our harvest moon and three of Jupiter's moon, and were incredibly delighted by this one night on earth.
So, we waved good bye to summer and hello to Jupiter on the same night. Are we lucky, or what?

In other news, Roger is on his week off from chemo. He has a rash that his oncologist thinks is not a side effect, but an allergic reaction. He's going back to see the doc on Monday when he will determine if Roger can proceed with his second set of treatments or go on to another protocol. In the meantime, we have been to the "big city" to get my computer fixed. The wonderful young man who worked with us admired my desktop photo (it's the new header on the blog). I showed him a pic of one of the bobcats we've photographed. He told us when he's not working the help desk at Apple he's an NFL photographer for the Oakland Raiders. And not only that, he's from my home state of New Jersey. We shook hands. What more can I say? I gave him so many people, I think he must have given me Joe Montana. Ha ha! Life is funny.