Pohogonot Farm

Fishing at Dusk at the Menemsha Bite

The Night Sky

The New Yorker ~ Frank Cotham

"First, let him look at the night sky,
so he realizes how insignificant he is."

Field Guide to the Solar System

NASA released the first color picture of Pluto today, which The Wall Street Journal explains is "awash in glaciers of nitrogen and methane ice."

The Wall Street Journal also recently published a Field Guide to the Solar System. Take a trip.

Belly Flop

New Yorker illustrator Barry Blitt's sarcasm knows no party boundaries. See Hillary's Emoji.

Time to Read

In the last 24 hours I've read and watched these admonishments to read.

"I've been speaking to audiences all over the country, and there is a real feeling of, We want to sustain the basic foundations and ideals. Jefferson's great statement - 'Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free expects what never was and never will be' - we need to be reminded of that. All the people I've written about, without exception, leaders in various fields such as politics, were all readers. That was one of the things that fascinated me about the Wright brothers, how much they read, and what they read, because of their father's insistence and direction. The idea that they would give their sister as a birthday present a box of Sir Walter Scott, that tells you a lot about what was going on, not just in their minds and in their taste, but in that house, that little house."

 David McCullough ~ reader, historian, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author

Wait for it, it will be a pleasure.

"Gee, I didn't know that. And there you are!"

Pluto

The New Yorker ~ Tom Toro

NASA ~ New Horizons

The Grateful Dead's Dead after 50 Years

Fare Thee Well.

The New Yorker ~ Tom Toro

Edgartown Fireworks

The White House Builds Fences