Friday, October 30, 2015

Was Stonehenge a Time Measurement

     Hour by hour, day by day, men looked at the sky watching and studying the sun, the moon, the stars traveling through the sky.  Was stonehenge in England built by men who wanted to measure the sun's movements, the moon's movements to accurately measure the movement of the sun and moon?  Instead of a sun-dial, man could put the measurement of time into a clock, a watch, a calendar of months, a year.  The patience it must have taken to study the movements of the sun and moon through the sky measure how long a day would be and fit that measurement into twelves for a time piece to measure the length of a day.  Each twelve would represent one hour of a day.  Make that measurement so the full day would be twenty-four hours, the p.m. twelves of the time piece would represent night time when the moon and stars were out.  The a.m. twelves of the time piece would represent day-time when the sun was out and this timepiece measured a full 24 hour day that came about from men studying the sun, moon, and stars.


Michael Jackson - Thriller (Short Version)

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Concord Grapes

 I was taking a walk on a sunny September day.  The property was originally owned by the Bushnell family, maybe during the Colonial days.  As I walked, I came upon land that, thankfully, has not been disturbed.  The trees are still there, and overgrown brush and thickets, but there was a large grape vine, it grew along the side a tree and I took a close look and there were many clusters of red grapes.  I was sure when I saw the cluster of grapes, these were planted many years ago when the Bushnell family may have had a vineyard on this property they owned.  I was filled with surprise, that these grapes had survived many years.  These were the vines still filled with clusters of grapes the gentlemen and ladies cared for and while in there summertime day-dresses, in their hands fans to cool themselves or a delicate umbrella to shade themselves from the sun, would meander through the vineyards and later have a glass of wine on their porch and enjoy the labors of their hard work.