moving like tigers on vaseline

[Mark Wright AIA]

For us the power failure was just a minor inconvenience. If I'd still
been commuting into NYC it would have been another story altogether,
for me personally anyway. 

We went out to look at the black sky, but enough of the towns around us
had got their power back before dark that the sky wasn't black at all
but a hazy looking yellow pretty much as usual. Too hazy to see Mars
through, even. *What a rip-off!* It was the biggest blackout in US
history and there still wasn't any good seeing....

The other night, however, we did Mars, which is intense these days. It
was almost like looking into a headlight on the highway, only it is
tangerine-colored. Drive out to the countryside somewhere south of the
nearest big city around midnight with a good pair of binoculars. It is
quite striking. And, of course, void of symbolism, 'lessn o' course you
live in Grovers Mill, New Jersey.



--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
> Tigers are indeed magnificent to watch. Our next zoo is some forty
> kilometres away and relatively small, but the big cats have a lot of
> space
> there. Seeing the tigers lying in the sun always makes me wanting to
> pet
> them, which is of course impossible, but instead I did make friends
> with the
> Tapir they've got there.
> 
> It's good to know that the animals at the zoo "survived" the
> blackout. I
> assume they have emergency generators there.
> 
> By the way, none of the New York P-listers gave a report on the
> blackout, it
> would be interesting to have one first-hand. I was thinking of you
> all when
> we got the news. I was in my cab but went home immediately to watch
> CNN.
> 
> Otto
> 


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