My Leica Akademie lesson on Sunday was tough but productive. The class focused on focusing on a Macro lens and experimenting with my idea of flowers as “dreams,” which is tricky. Macro photography requires enormous amounts of patience, exploration, and experimentation. I like cap … | Continue reading
Our support plan for the Cambridge Food Pantry has been astounding, transformative, and so successful that every single item sent in the past two weeks was eagerly and instantly taken by the people who came to the pantry needing food. We are making an enormous difference; the pan … | Continue reading
Skip to content Menu Visit Full Moon Fiber Art › Bedlam Farm Etsy Home Support the Blog FAQ Contact Me Search for: 17 March We Interrupt This Message! – The Secret To Happiness. Sunday Journal, Late Afternoon. I Was Feeling Low by Jon Katz I just finished Gabriel García Márquez’s … | Continue reading
Skip to content Menu Visit Full Moon Fiber Art › Bedlam Farm Etsy Home Support the Blog FAQ Contact Me Search for: 17 March Calla Sculpture: The Inspiration of Diego Rivera, Flowers Are More Than Flowers by Jon Katz The famous artists Diego Rivera and Georgia O’Keeffe inspired me … | Continue reading
Skip to content Menu Visit Full Moon Fiber Art › Bedlam Farm Etsy Home Support the Blog FAQ Contact Me Search for: 17 March Animals On A Rainy Day by Jon Katz Zip surprises me again and again. He loves to be out in the rain, snow, and ice. He seems to do some of his best hunting … | Continue reading
Skip to content Menu Visit Full Moon Fiber Art › Bedlam Farm Etsy Home Support the Blog FAQ Contact Me Search for: 17 March Susie Makes It Through Another Day by Jon Katz We checked on Susie this morning. She ate hay and grain and strolled in and out of the pole barn. According t … | Continue reading
Skip to content Menu Visit Full Moon Fiber Art › Bedlam Farm Etsy Home Support the Blog FAQ Contact Me Search for: 17 March Sunday Morning, March 17, 2024 Tale Of Two Morning Skies, Five Minutes Apart by Jon Katz We woke to a bright sunrise. Five minutes later, the light went awa … | Continue reading
Skip to content Menu Visit Full Moon Fiber Art › Bedlam Farm Etsy Home Support the Blog FAQ Contact Me Search for: 16 March Color And Light, As Promised. Dreams And Promises by Jon Katz I love my new Carra Lili flowers, an addition to my repertoire. I also liked the flower-in-a-v … | Continue reading
Skip to content Menu Visit Full Moon Fiber Art › Bedlam Farm Etsy Home Support the Blog FAQ Contact Me Search for: 16 March Discovering The Dollar Store. Snobbery Is Expensive, I Like Saving Money by Jon Katz For some reason, I’ve been increasingly open to change lately, and I’m … | Continue reading
Skip to content Menu Visit Full Moon Fiber Art › Bedlam Farm Etsy Home Support the Blog FAQ Contact Me Search for: 16 March Morning Sky, In Black And White by Jon Katz Today is a Leica monochrome day, a mix of sun, cloudiness, and some wind. I miss the camera, I love black and wh … | Continue reading
Skip to content Menu Visit Full Moon Fiber Art › Bedlam Farm Etsy Home Support the Blog FAQ Contact Me Search for: 16 March Susie, Our Oldest Sheep Is Dying. We Hope For A Natural Death But Won’t Let Her Suffer. The Sheep Are Saying Goodbye by Jon Katz Maria and I noticed that Su … | Continue reading
Skip to content Menu Visit Full Moon Fiber Art › Bedlam Farm Etsy Home Support the Blog FAQ Contact Me Search for: 16 March I Just Got Some Calla Lilis. I Had To Put A Few Up. Thanks Sue by Jon Katz On impulse (my middle name), I stopped to see Sue Lamberti at her flower shop; sh … | Continue reading
Skip to content Menu Visit Full Moon Fiber Art › Bedlam Farm Etsy Home Support the Blog FAQ Contact Me Search for: 16 March About The Author, My Grandaughter Robin. “She Writes Books At Age 7: Wow!” by Jon Katz Robin is not going to have problems with self-esteem when she gets ol … | Continue reading
Skip to content Menu Visit Full Moon Fiber Art › Bedlam Farm Etsy Home Support the Blog FAQ Contact Me Search for: 16 March Video: Zip, who loves life. He’s around 18 months old but still a kitten in many ways, as the video shows. You’ll Have Fun Too. by Jon Katz Zip is a cat who … | Continue reading
Skip to content Menu Visit Full Moon Fiber Art › Bedlam Farm Etsy Home Support the Blog FAQ Contact Me Search for: 15 March Color And Light As Promised. Zip Says Have A Great Weekend. Me Too. One Message To Share by Jon Katz I’m looking forward to the weekend. This was a challeng … | Continue reading
Skip to content Menu Visit Full Moon Fiber Art › Bedlam Farm Etsy Home Support the Blog FAQ Contact Me Search for: 15 March “Dammit Dolls:” The Best Conversation Yet With My Mansion Meditation Class by Jon Katz I bought two “Dammit Dolls” for my Mansion meditation class, and we h … | Continue reading
Skip to content Menu Visit Full Moon Fiber Art › Bedlam Farm Etsy Home Support the Blog FAQ Contact Me Search for: 15 March I’m Now A Volunteer At The Food Pantry. It Feels Right, I Start Next Friday…There Is A Call For Microwave Popcorn, The Kids Miss It A Lot by Jon Katz I sign … | Continue reading
Skip to content Menu Visit Full Moon Fiber Art › Bedlam Farm Etsy Home Support the Blog FAQ Contact Me Search for: 15 March How Many People Live At Bedlam Farm? You Might Be Surprised. The Different Faces Of Jon And Maria by Jon Katz Two humans and a bunch of animals might live a … | Continue reading
Skip to content Menu Visit Full Moon Fiber Art › Bedlam Farm Etsy Home Support the Blog FAQ Contact Me Search for: 15 March Rainy Morning Journal, Friday, March 15, 2024. “Dammit Dolls” And The Art Of Mindful Living by Jon Katz It seems to rain all morning. I tried to capture the … | Continue reading
Skip to content Menu Visit Full Moon Fiber Art › Bedlam Farm Etsy Home Support the Blog FAQ Contact Me Search for: 15 March Bird Watching Yesterday by Jon Katz Good morning. It’s a dark and gloomy day here. Just before dark yesterday, I sat by the window waiting for a bird or two … | Continue reading
Free-Floating Planets as Interstellar Targets by Paul Gilster | Mar 15, 2024 | Exoplanetary Science | 31 comments Just a few weeks ago I wrote about stellar interactions, taking note of a concept advanced by scientists including Ben Zuckerman and Greg Matloff that such stars woul … | Continue reading
Skip to content Menu Visit Full Moon Fiber Art › Bedlam Farm Etsy Home Support the Blog FAQ Contact Me Search for: 14 March Color And Light, And Then Some. Bonus – Zip And Birds by Jon Katz It was an intense and tiring week. I’m looking forward to the weekend. I love the long-los … | Continue reading
Skip to content Menu Visit Full Moon Fiber Art › Bedlam Farm Etsy Home Support the Blog FAQ Contact Me Search for: 14 March Photo Journal, Morning Visit: Come And Meet The Cambridge Pantry And The Amazing People Who Volunteer There. I’m Signing Up As A Volunteer by Jon Katz I spe … | Continue reading
Inscribing Our Journey to Europa by Paul Gilster | Mar 13, 2024 | Outer Solar System | 12 comments We’re a species that likes to leave evidence of itself in new places. In Greenland, for example, the Kingittorsuaq runestone, dating from the 14th Century, offers inscriptions that … | Continue reading
An Ancient ‘Quenched’ Galaxy by Paul Gilster | Mar 8, 2024 | Deep Sky Astronomy & Telescopes | 38 comments If individual star systems show us a wide variety of formation scenarios – and we just examined recent ESO work on circumstellar disks in different star-forming regions – th … | Continue reading
Planet formation is a fascinating subtopic of the exoplanet hunt, and it may just have produced the first exoplanet detection in data that go back as far back as 1981, though the event in question has never been confirmed as being caused by a planet. I learned this through a pape … | Continue reading
Today, it felt like Spring. I’m sure we aren’t quite done with winter, but the bite is gone for now. I’ll keep my archived color and light photos up until May. Tomorrow, I go to Saratoga to have the stitches removed from one of my toes after surgery last week. This is good news, … | Continue reading
Sarah Warrington texted me this photograph of the first wave of packages and food supplies that came to the Cambridge Food Pantry first thing in the morning. The Army of Good is extraordinary and quick to respond. This is a new element to add to our work; it is timely and in the … | Continue reading
I was never a good student; I drove my public school teachers mad and dropped out of two colleges without attending class much. I was too distracted and messed up to learn. Now, well into my 70s, photography has inspired me to learn and work hard at it. I spent two hours with my … | Continue reading
My Taylor Swift Cap arrived this afternoon; I’m excited to wear it. I’m a Swiftie and have been for a couple of years. I might be the oldest person in America who is wearing this cap. I was inspired to get it by one of her sons of the same name. What I am drawn to by Taylor Swift … | Continue reading
When I came out in the morning, Zip came rushing over to say hello. We had a couple of quality minutes, and then we each went our way. We both had things to do. Zip is a photographer’s dream. The post Portrait: Zip, Noon Nap appeared first on Bedlam Farm. | Continue reading
Maria is not nearly as combative or argumentative as I am, but she seemed to have joined in the Amherst College flap about suggesting a photograph of mine was a still life rather than a portrait. The academics freaked out and called me all kinds of names, including being Trumpist … | Continue reading
Building the Heavy Elements by Paul Gilster | Mar 1, 2024 | Deep Sky Astronomy & Telescopes | 17 comments A kilonova at the wrong place and time would spell trouble for any lifeforms emerging on a planetary surface. Just how we found out about kilonovae and the conditions that cr … | Continue reading
Close Stellar Encounters and Earth’s Orbit by Paul Gilster | Feb 28, 2024 | Astrobiology and SETI | 26 comments Galaxies look fixed in astronomical photos, but of course they’re dynamic systems ever in motion. The closest stars to Earth at Alpha Centauri will eventually close to … | Continue reading
Musings on Red Dwarf Planets by Paul Gilster | Feb 23, 2024 | Exoplanetary Science | 17 comments I’m going to start in the Kuiper Belt this morning before going further out, because the news that the Belt may extend much further than expected reminds us of the nature of explorati … | Continue reading
Solar Gravity Lens Mission: Refinements and Clarifications by Paul Gilster | Feb 21, 2024 | Missions | 28 comments Having just discussed whether humans – as opposed to their machines – will one day make interstellar journeys, it’s a good time to ask where we could get today with … | Continue reading
To the Stars with Human Crews? by Paul Gilster | Feb 16, 2024 | Sail Concepts | 71 comments How long before we can send humans to another star system? Ask people active in the interstellar community and you’ll get answers ranging from ‘at least a century’ to ‘never.’ I’m inclined … | Continue reading
Otto Struve: A Prescient Look at Exoplanet Detection by Paul Gilster | Feb 14, 2024 | Exoplanetary Science | 18 comments Some things just run in families. If you look into the life of Otto Struve, you’ll find that the Russian-born astronomer was the great grandson of Friedrich Ge … | Continue reading
What We Know Now about TRAPPIST-1 (and what we don’t) by Paul Gilster | Feb 9, 2024 | Exoplanetary Science | 30 comments Our recent conversations about the likelihood of life elsewhere in the universe emphasize how early in the search we are. Consider recent work on TRAPPIST-1, w … | Continue reading
White Holes: Tunnels in the Sky? by Paul Gilster | Feb 6, 2024 | Exotic Physics | 31 comments It’s good now and then to let the imagination soar. Don Wilkins has been poking into the work of Carlo Rovelli at the Perimeter Institute, where the physicist and writer explores unusual … | Continue reading
We noticed recently that the old white hen, our oldest, could not jump up into the roost any longer; we found her lying under it at night, a dangerous position for a hen to be in. Maria researched and discovered a vast and overgrown claw on the hen; she thought that was why the h … | Continue reading
Bud loves the sun, wherever it comes from, however long it lasts. The post Portrait: Bud In The Sun appeared first on Bedlam Farm. | Continue reading
Alone in the Cosmos? by Paul Gilster | Feb 2, 2024 | Astrobiology and SETI | 48 comments We live in a world that is increasingly at ease with the concept of intelligent extraterrestrial life. The evidence for this is all around us, but I’ll cite what Louis Friedman says in his ne … | Continue reading
Globular clusters, those vast ‘cities of stars’ that orbit our galaxy, get a certain amount of traction in SETI circles because of their age, dating back as they do to the earliest days of the Milky Way. But as Henry Cordova explains below, they’re a less promising target in many … | Continue reading
Alien Life or Chemistry? A New Approach by Paul Gilster | Jan 24, 2024 | Astrobiology and SETI | 25 comments Working in the field has its limitations, as Alex Tolley reminds us in the essay that follows, but at least biologists have historically been on the same planet with their … | Continue reading
Good news: warmer weather is coming next week after one final burst of hysteria from the Weather Channel. Watch out when they name a storm; it’s usually a stinker in a different way than the forecast. One more is coming next week, and then it will warm up noticeably. I’m ready fo … | Continue reading
Sue Silverstein has her groundbreaking art program on high drive. Her students happily abandon TikTok to sit for hours painting, weaving, sewing, and brushing. Her students’ art (eight classes) is made from the discarded objects sent to her by the Army Of Good. Here are three mor … | Continue reading
A cat-loving woman in Texas wrote me an angry message this morning daring me to sleep between two hay bales in subzero weather before I thought I knew how Zip might feel in the cold. I was tempted to write back and say I sleep in the barn every night and love it, but I decided th … | Continue reading