This is a close-up “image” I took on the evenings of the Winter Solstice, 2020. A conjunction is when any two planets appear together in the sky. In this case, the largest planet Jupiter and the second largest, Saturn, the ringed giant. Is this a “Christmas Star”? If people say it, is so. Such conjunctions […]
Michael Schwartz
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Go East, Old Man
So, after 20 years of living in virtual isolation in the very south of Arizona, I have moved to Bennington, Vermont. Everyone I left in Patagonia said, “Why would you go there?” Give up warm sunsets, the Sonoran Desert, ideal home of the retired? Similarly, as I am learning to navigate Bennington and the surrounding area, […]