I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. - Teddy Roosevelt, 1899
There a lot of interpretations and philosophies about that TR speech, but for this particular space, I am just focusing on thoughts and stories about the outdoors that are of course, "Bully!"

Rough Rider Spirit

Rough Rider Spirit

Monday, March 20, 2017

The Not So Equinox

Everyone gets excited about the first day of Spring.  For a long time I thought that it finally meant that we would have more daylight than night, because the Equinox was the day of equal day and night.  But being the obsessive Weather Channel App user that I am, I noticed that the day of equal day and night happens a good week before the Equinox.  On the actual Equinox, hanging out with us folks on the 35th Latitude, sunrise is a 6:58 am and sunset is at 7:07 pm. What was up with that?  The quick answer is that the Equinox refers to the geometric center of the sun, which I assume that we are not supposed to ever look at.  In any event, here is an article that explains it much better than I can.


https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/equinox-not-equal.html
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