I never had the math skills when I was in school to pursue a higher education in one of my favorite sciences, Astronomy. I struggled through high school algebra - calculus would have killed me.

But the movement of celestial bodies has always facinated me. Especially when those movements readily visible to the naked eye occur. Like the solar eclipse that happened yesterday over Asia. We in North America could not witness this rare event. Fortunately, lots of people who did witness it had digital cameras and snapped some very beautiful images.

My personal favorite image is this one.  The brown and sepia tones of the clouds obscuring the crecent of the sun just visible behind the moon yields an image that is dark yet warm to me.

BTW: If you like the image, feel free to click on the thumb and download the full size version ( 1024 x 768 ).

If eclipse images fires your rockets, then you need to check out the Picfog photo aggregator.

The kids and I were watching a lot of kids videos on YouTube a little while ago and much to our delight we saw that the childrens book 'Where The Wild Things Are' is going to be released as a movie this October 16th.

I don't know who is more excited - the kids or me. 

After watching the trailer we had to stomp around the room while we roared our terrible roars and gnashed our terrible teeth and showed our terrible claws!

I found this gem of intelligence in a parking lot here in South Florida this weekend. I guess the owner of this car thought the price for a new bumper at the auto shop was a little steep and went to the wood shop to get the repairs done.

I submitted this photo to FailBlog. Let's see if it made their front page.

It's Independence Day here in the United States. All you US citizens who are looking to celebrate and have a good time, please be smart about it.

I know it's hard for those of you are Darwin Award hopefuls to resist the temptation, but try the best you can not to becomd a statistic today. Use some commen sense and fireworks safety.