What a Show for Gaudete Sunday!

Make hot cocoa. Bundle up. Tell your friends. The best meteor shower of 2009 is about to fall over North America on a long, cold December night.(Read more here...)

Tonight's Big Show

Brought to you by God!

A Day of Astronomy

For my local readers...A Day of Astronomy is an event you might like to take advantage of tomorrow. Our upcoming science unit is Astronomy--and this event is FREE! I don't think you'll have to ask us twice.

Not Just for the Birds

Don't forget to share the miracle of the swallows at San Juan Capistrano today.

You can find this wonderful story by Leo Politi available here.

Great Backyard Bird Count

Another great project at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Make sure your neighborhood birds are counted for the 12^th annual Great Backyard Bird Count! Keep track of the birds you see for at least 15 minutes from February 13 through 16 and report the highest number of each species you see on the GBBC website. You can count in your yard, balcony, or city park­-anywhere you see birds. Watch reports come in from around the continent on the website, upload images for the photo contest, and take our new survey. Just by participating in the GBBC you'll be entered into a drawing for great prizes donated by the National Audubon Society, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Wild Birds Unlimited, and Droll Yankees. Join the Great Backyard Bird Count this year and Count for Fun, Count for the Future!

Do You Know Laminin?

If you don't, you'll be amazed once you do!

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

For in him were created all things in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things were created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

Colossians 1: 15-17

H/T My MIL via email

Plan Ahead

"Come Sept. 18, Venus, Mercury and Mars will form an equilateral triangle, whose sides are 4 degrees in length. And Spica now becomes a part of this array, sitting only a few degrees to the left of the triangle. Whether you'll actually be able to see it, or the even fainter Mars against the backdrop of the bright twilight sky, however, is debatable.

But to have three planets and a bright star crammed into a relatively small spot in the sky does not happen very often, so I would urge you to give it a try."

Read the complete article here.

One good reason to keep the kids awake tonight

This won't be seen here for another three years. Don't miss it!