Thursday, December 25, 2014

Merry Christmas, 2014

Season's Greetings and Happy Holidays!


Special greetings from the Happy-face Dragonfly:


To help us all get in the Christmas spirit, here's a physics problem from Walker Physics involving Santa:


The situation can be visualized as follows:


And now for the calculation:


Here's a bit of insight into the results:


Merry Christmas!

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

A Foggy Day

The other day a fog bank rolled in and covered parts of Anacortes – though other parts were clear as a bell.  Betsy and I went to Washington Park to check things out, and here's what we saw near Green Point:


The fog went up to the tree tops, and the sunlight was filtering through.  Here's Betsy with a dramatic background:


We drove on to the top of the park, at the "family tree," where we were above the fog.  In the following photo you can see the fog bank surrounding Washington Park:


It looks like was still foggy at our house.  Not long after this the fog burned off completely to reveal a beautiful sunny day.