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Show BLOOMlNG TIMES . Ame 1993 . 7 O*O*O*O* are thinking of using metal roofs to consider what kind of impact this might Jupiter will be the brightest “star” in the sky, positioned in Virgo this month. Look for it in the east in the have on your neighbors. As was mentioned in last month’s article on the metal roof problem, several dark gray roofs (Bill Riggs’s and Donovan Roberts’s, for example) cause very little glare, while several other metal roofs are blinding. With the wide open nature of our valley, this glare can be quite unpleasant if the evening, setting in the west during angle of reflection is to someone else’s morning twilight. Also in the eastern sky on the morning of the 19th, Venus and a slender crescent Moon will form a striking pair. - On the night of 21fl2 disadvantage. The lower angle roofs Star Data (from Astrology Magazine) April ’93 2lst—New Moon 5:49 pm. MDT 29th—First Quarter Moon 6:40 am. the Lyrid Meteor Shower will peak with about 15 meteors per hour before morning twilight. Mars continues brightly in Gemini. May ’93 4th—Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks 5th—Full Moon 9:34 pm. MDT 7th—Venus is at greatest brilliancy (—4.5 magnitude) l3th—1ast Quarter Moon at 6:20 am. Venus will be brilliant in the eastern sky before dawn, peaking on the 7th. - Mars will skirt the northem regions of the Beehive star cluster (M44) in cancer on 11th and 12th of May. Watch for a partial solar eclipse later this month (May 2150. —Sam Welch *O*O*O*O Metal Roof Moratorium At the April town Council meeting, the only advocate of continuing a moratorium on highly reflective metal roofs for another month was outvoted by about 40 to one. With the Town Council voting four to one to allow all types of metal roofs, I guess the most I can do is again ask those of you who and roofs with parapet walls do not seem to cause as much trouble as conventional steeper pitched roofs. Both Ken Devore and Bruce Keeler did some research and were told that there are several types of metal roofs available with matte finishes that could help reduce glare problems. If you are interested, call them for Outside, a mixture of snow and sleet is coming down. the runways show signs of icing. Flight delays and cancellations are called out over the PA system. there are more people than usual smoking at the various gates. Once aboard you peer through the windows for traces of ice on the wings and search the pancaked faces of the stewardesses for anything like the knot of anxiety you feel in your own stomach as they run through the customary emergency procedures. the great craft lumbers its way to the take- off position, the jets shrill. Picking up speed, you count the seconds till you feel lift-off. More than so many, you’ve heard, means trouble. Once airborne, you can hardly see the wings at all through the gray turbulence information. Of course, if your roof scudding by. the steep climb is rough as a beater pick-up. Gradually it starts to even ouLThe clouds thin 21 little. Here will be angled back toward Porcupine and there you see tatters of clear air Rim or into some trees, then it will be unlikely to affect anyone else. Those opposed to restrictions on among them. The pilot levels off metal roofing came to the the meeting and let their preferences be known very clearly, and the issue was voted down. —Jack Campbell Perhaps Dying is Like That A young friend of mine called and asked what it’s like to die. I’ve not had the experience. He will, though, and soon. He has AIDS. What’s it like to die? How do you describe that which lays in wait for you but whose time has not yet come? An Analogy? Perhaps. The airport is crowded, noisy, frenetic. There are yowling babies, people being paged, the usual ruckus. slightly. Nobody is talking. the calm and quiet are almost palpable. Suddenly, in a rush of light, you break out of the weather. Beneath you the clouds are a furrowed pasture. Above, no sky in creation was ever bluer. Possibly the last take—off is something like that.When the time finally comes, you’re scared stiff, but maybe by then you’re just as glad to leave the whole show behind and get going. In a matter of moments, everything that seemed to matter stops mattering. The slow climb is all there is. The. stillness. The clouds.Then the miracle of flight as from fathom upon fathom down you surface suddenly into open sky.T.he dazzling sun. —Donovan Roberts CHECK OUT OUR NEW GREEN HOUSE full of vegetables and perennials LOTS OF NATIVES |
