PHOTOSHOP FUN

Playing with Photoshop is always fun, and I've been using it almost daily since version 2.5 (for those of you who know when that version was, you'll know how long I've been using it). This image worked particularly well due to the fact that both photos had the same light source. Can you guess the original locations of the source photos?

POWER OUTAGE

This storm increased in intensity until the rain turned to marble-sized hail. Power was out for the entire city of Ashland for about an hour, then again for another half hour later in the evening. And we're supposed to play poker on this deck tonight...

EARTH, SUN, MOON

Last Sunday there was a full lunar eclipse of the moon, visible out here on the West Coast in the wee hours of the morning. While enjoying the red glow that permeated the night sky outside my bedroom window, I began to have those thoughts you get when you're half awake, half asleep.

I started wondering why it was that although the sun is much larger in size than either the moon or the earth, and much farther away from the earth than the moon, it appears as the exact same size disc in the sky as the moon does.

Think about it. If you look at the moon (when it's full and you can see it in its entirety) you'll notice that it's the exact same size as the sun to the naked eye. What are the chances that we happen to be on a spinning orb in space that allows us to see two such disparate objects in space at the exact same size?

Indeed, if this were not the case, such things as eclipses would not be possible. Scientists would have you believe this is a random coincidence, and that the distance of our moon and of our sun from the earth is attributed to nothing more than random chance, all as a result of the Big Bang.

Am I missing something, or is there more to the picture than the modern, Western, scientific model wants us to believe?