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Show 4 - SUMMER TIMES - JUNE 1993 —_** i‘ it —* * —* Today it To make suggests fashioning All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or have not yet emerged from it. One of Winnie something out of something else, the the Pooh’s friends asked him, “What’s It began in the evening sky slightly above the North Star, glowing beautifully as any meteor does. way wooden boxes are made out of wood. To create suggests‘fashioning something out of nothing, the way paintings and poems are born. True, 12 June 1993 Moving rapidly toward the east, it both the artist and carpenter use other brightened dramatically into a fireball, materials, but the beauty or meaning sporting a sparkling tail and lingering created is different from the materials used. To create is to make something trail of glowing dust. You could even see chunks of fire breaking off the main body. It faded after a few seconds, but was still a glowing ember as we lost sight of it behind Parriot Mesa Where was it by this time? Over Colorado? Kansas? We will never know . . . but we lingered for quite some time, hoping against hope for an encore. —Wilma and Sam Welch \l/ 7% \g/ 7i\ \1/ 7l\ June/July Sky Show JUNE 1993 Saint Augustine said that God, or Sacred Mystery, creates the universe new each day. At the first light of dawn, the glistening world fashions itself afresh; language waits to he invented, love discovered, the first lines of an and morality drawn. Using the same old materials of earth, wind, fire, and water, every you’re seeing the same show all over again seven times a week, you’re wrong. Every morning you wake up to something that in all eternity never was before and never will be again. And the you that wakes up was never the same 21st—Summer Solstice 3 am. before and will never be the same 26th—Frrst Quarter Moon 4:43 pm. again, either. Moon passes 7° south of Jupiter Today is a moment of light 10 pm. surrounded on all sides by darkness and Venus continues as the “morning oblivion. In the entire history of the JULY 1993 3rd— Full Moon 5:45 pm. 1 1th—-Last Quarter Moon 4:49 pm. 15th—Moon passes 2° north of Venus 9 pm. Venus is a dazzling early morning object throughout July. Look for it in the constellation Taurus. This is a great month to watch Jupiter in a telescope. Its moons will be eclipsed by its shadow, making the disappearances and reappearances of the satellites especially dramatic. -—Sam Welch universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another just like it and there will never be another just like it again. It is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will proceed until the hour of your death. If you were aware of how precious it is, you could hardly live through it. Unless you are aware of how precious it is, you can hardly be said to be living at all. See today for what it is because it >14 /l\ BLM Approves Hot Air Ballooning On May 27, BLM approved the hot air ballooning permit for Wild West Ballooning Company. The permit is for one year, and it allows daily early morning flights of three balloons until November 1. The permit is for the Fisher Towers-Professor Valley areas, including the base of Castle Rock and up the paved Loop Road approximately to the top of the pass through Pace Hill. The boundary of the permit was slightly modified to exclude the portion of the Loop Road from Pace Hill (near our mailboxes) to the Seventh day Academy. This portion had been part of the original proposal. The BLM document stated that “There were 8 letters received which were opposed to issuing the permit One of the letters was copied and sent in with additional signatures. and a petition was brought in which sup- ported issuing the permit in the Castle Valley area.” Several residents called Brad Palmer expressing opposition to the ballooning; their comments were apparently not included in the record. The concerns raised by Castle Valley residents in the letters opposing hot air ballooning were apparently effective in temporarily excluding the balloons from the main part of the waste it, it is your life you’re wasting. valley. This will hopefully eliminate the fire danger that accompanies hot air If you look the other way, it may be the ballooning. (Fire danger will be very moment you’ve always been waiting high in CV after all the rain we’ve had this spring.) —Jack Campbell will be gone before you know it. If you (From Astronomy Magazine) 340:1; /l\ /l\ got in hand. If you’re wise as Pooh, you spend it well. —Donovan Roberts essentially new. l9th—New Moon 7:52 pm. MDT star,” as Mercury fades in the evening sky. “Today. Today is my favorite day." Pooh must have known that yesterday is a canceled check, tomorrow is a promissory note, and today is the only cash you’ve twenty-four hours God creates something new out of them. If you think \g/ 7i\ your favorite day?” Pooh answered, for that you’re missing. SATURDAY MORNING MARKET buy and sell I trade produce, junk, and jewels with your neighbors saturday mornings on thecommunity/ lot fa/@ If you see me there with my umbrel I've got peaches la, for you.—Jil Kulander Cu. r' by Aldlng and Tenayl Force |
