A 94 Degree Day!

We had a nice Sunday with lots of sun. Family and friends came for a barbecue and we sang songs. Looks like today is going to be another hot one too!

Just Hanging Around

Daddy put up a hammock between two trees out in the daisy patch last weekend. What a great place to relax and watch the clouds float by.

I've become quite a dancer

Mom & Dad's Wedding Anniversary!

Last Saturday was my Mom and Dad's Anniversary. They stayed at "Ambraden Pond Bed & Breakfast" while I spent the night at Gran and Grandpa's house. Dad picked me up in the morning to show me the place they stayed and we had breakfast there. I had a lot of fun feeding the trout in the pond, running through the field, and exploring the property.
(Mom put a link to this beautiful place on the right of the blog!)
Remember,..you can click on any photo in Jade's Palace to enlarge!

Of course, only part of this story is true!

St. George is an artist in Britain who does have a grandfather -- minus the great prefix -- named Alexander.
And the trans-Atlantic tunnel is really a trans-Atlantic broadband network rounded off on each end with HD cameras, according to Tiscali, an Italian Internet provider handling the technical side of the project.
The Telectroscope captured St. George's imagination five years ago, when he began pondering how to do a project on the childhood fantasy of digging a hole to the opposite side of the Earth. And because the artist also happens to have an expertise in Victorian chronophotography -- a precursor to cinematography -- he had a slight idea of where to look for the proper equipment.

"We all have that idea in our head if we could make a tunnel to the other side of the Earth," St. George said."But we are not all crazy enough to actually try and do it."

St. George was crazy enough to actually try and do it, but he realized he could not do the digging alone. So about two years ago, he pitched the idea to Artichoke, the British arts group responsible for taking the Sultan's Elephant -- a 42-ton mechanical creature -- for a stroll through central London in 2006. The company was immediately taken by St. George's idea.

"The whole thing is about seeing what is real and what isn't real and how the world is," said Nicki Webb, a co-founder of Artichoke. "Is it nighttime when we are in daytime, and does it look familiar to us or not?"

When the sun illuminated the lens of the Telectroscope next to the Thames, it was, of course, still nighttime in New York. So the screen inside the scope broadcast back only an empty sidewalk silently framed by the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan skyline.

But then something miraculous occurred.

A police officer and a street cleaner walked into the frame. Stopped. And waved.

The Telectroscope will be on display and open to the public 24 hours a day in London and New York until June 15.

The Telectroscope

Hardly anyone knows that a secret tunnel runs deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. In May 2008, more than a century after it was begun, the tunnel has finally been completed. An extraordinary optical device called a Telectroscope has been installed at both ends which miraculously allows people to see right through the Earth from London to New York
and vice versa.

Some years ago an artist by the name of Paul St George happened upon a packet of dusty papers in a trunk in his grandmother’s attic. On further inspection he discovered that they had been the property of his great-grandfather, an eccentric Victorian engineer, Alexander Stanhope St George.

Paul began to read through the papers and discovered a veritable treasure trove: diaries, diagrams, correspondence, scribbled calculations, and even one or two photographs. At first, Paul felt a detached interest in this first hand account of social and cultural history. But as he read on, he became more and more absorbed, until, with a sudden thrill, he realised that these papers could have a greater significance than was at first apparent.

The notebooks were full of intricate drawings and passages of writing describing a strange machine. This device looked like an enormous telescope with a strange bee-hive shaped cowl at one end containing a complex configuration of mirrors and lenses. Alexander seemed to be suggesting that this invention, which he called a Telectroscope, would act as a visual amplifier, allowing people to see through a tunnel of immense length… a tunnel, the drawings implied, stretching from one side of the world to the other.

Very Funny

Yesterday, Karlie and Uncle Scott stopped by for a visit. They were on their way to a "Tacky Costume Party" and changed into their costumes at my house to show us how funny they were. I don't know if I would let my Uncle Scott into my house to sell me a vacuum dressed like that!

Striped Icebergs

Apologies for the uneven text. Cut and Paste doesn't always agree with Jade's Palace!

Icebergs in the Antarctic area sometimes have stripes , formed by layers of snow
that react to different conditions. Blue stripes are often created when a crevice in
the ice sheet fills up with meltwater and freezes so quickly that no bubbles form .
When an iceberg falls into the sea , a layer of salty seawater can freeze to the
underside . If this is rich in algae , it can form a green stripe Brown , black and
yellow lines are caused by sediment , picked up when the ice sheet grinds
downhill towards the sea

Amazing Humming Birds

This is something I have never seen before, or ever even heard of. This lady lives in a Hummingbird fly zone. As they migrated, about 20 of them were in her yard. She took the little red dish, filled it with sugar water and this is the result.
The Woman is Abagail Alfano of Pine, Louisiana - she has been studying them daily and one morning put the cup from the feeder, with water in it, in her hand; as they had gotten used to her standing by the feeder they came over to her hand. She says in touching they are as light as a feather.

The Big Bad Wolf

Last Sunday while I was sleeping, my Mom and Dad and friends were sitting up at the fire pit after dinner. All of a sudden, my big hairy Siberian Husky dog "Saber" found a nest of baby bunnies in the tall clover in the back. By the time my Mom got to him, he had killed 2 of the bunnies, who were maybe a week or two old, and chased off the Mommy rabbit. One little bunny survived. Our friend Cheland said she would take him home and nurse him for the night to see if he could get past the shock, and then take him to the S.P.C.A. for better care. I'm glad I was sleeping through this terrible event, and I hope the bunny will be okay. My dog Saber can't help himself I guess. He must have thought they were dessert!