If you have a chance tonight look at the sky….Venus is out (by the moon). It’s beautiful. Will be visible til Mid-May.and if you look back in a southern direction you can see Uranus.

From what I understand Uranus is exceptionally large looking this time of year.

photo credit: mac_ivan

“Fairy tales do not teach children that dragons exist, they teach children that dragons can be killed”

Let’s always be looking out for those “hidden” dragons in a child’s life, and help kill them.

Some children are being bullied unmercifully, and yet no one knows about it.

Some children are being abused, locked up, mistreated or neglected, and yet, for some reason, no one in their life seems to notice or even worse, pay attention to it.

If you think that a child needs help, you can call the police, crime stoppers, or child help organizations anonymously, you don’t have to identify yourself.  Just make sure you do help to slay that child’s dragon!

OK, so you like swimming.  You really like swimming.  Well here are two pools you may want to go see some day.  These are awesome!  Just looking at the pictures scare me.  I don’t like swimming (I prefer wading in the water). I don’t like heights or depth, but, to some, this is fantastic.

courtesy wikipedia, Nemo 33 is the deepest indoor swimming pool in the world. The portal is located in Brussels, Belgium. Its maximum depth is 34.5 metres (113 ft). It contains 2.5 million liters of non-chlorinated, highly filtered spring water maintained at 30 °C (86 °F) and holds several simulated underwater caves at the 10 metres (33 ft) depth level.

There are numerous underwater windows that allow outside visitors to look into the pools at various depths.
http://www.nemo33.com/

The outdoor pool at San Alfonso del Mar resort is about two metres deeper, with a depth of 35 metres (115 ft) at its deep end.

Click on the picture to see this awesome video

Multicolored curtains of light fill the skies over northern Norway in a new time-lapse video made from aurora images taken this month.

The first time I saw the Northern Lights (very unusual where I live, I have only seen them here once in my life) I thought it was the end of the world.  I had never see the lights dance all over the sky before.  I think seeing the lights as in this video would be so beautiful it may even be scary!

Inspired by Kent Oldhøj of Google+

Very soon, this time in the morning, the birds will be singing us their “early morning singing song”, one of my favourite reasons for waking up early in the spring and summer, which is now right around the corner. Another reason is, a good cup of coffee, off course.

The deer and the dog romping and playing.

This picture is taken from up the road, and there is a dam at the end.  Hence, up the dam road. I have many wonderful memories there.  A great place to go fishing, or take your dog for a walk. A place to enjoy the beauty of nature.

We used to go snowmobiling here, many years ago.  There was  a cottage that had a wood stove in it where we could hang our cold and wet socks and gloves and hats. And stand around drinking a beer while our limbs thawed out.  Awesome memories!

Can you tell I love horses?  This picture needs no words!  Awesome Horse

The winter solstice occurs exactly when the axial tilt of a planet’s polar hemisphere is farthest away from the star that it orbits. Earth’s maximum axial tilt to our star, the Sun, during a solstice is 23° 26′. More evidently from high latitudes, a hemisphere’s winter solstice occurs on the shortest day and longest night of the year, when the sun’s daily maximum elevation in the sky is the lowest. Since the winter solstice lasts only a moment in time, other terms are often used for the day on which it occurs, such as midwinter, the longest night or the first day of winter.

The seasonal significance of the winter solstice is in the reversal of the gradual lengthening of nights and shortening of days. Depending on the shift of the calendar, the winter solstice usually occurs on December 21 to 23 each year in the Northern Hemisphere, and June 20 to 23 in the Southern Hemisphere.
courtesy wikipedia.com

No words needed to describe this beautiful horse.

Look at this beautiful snow hare.  How awesome is nature, that this beautiful little creature totally melts into his environment.