Category: nature and outdoors
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Nature’s Magical Place – Gibbs Gardens is where roses reign all summer
Hundreds of crape myrtles in majestic allées Gibbs Gardens is nature’s magical place all year long but summer—with vibrant color everywhere—is the most amazing season. Thousands of colorful roses create ribbons of blooms across the Valley Gardens while allées of majestic crape myrtles march along the gentle slopes. All set against a backdrop of annual…
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MasterClass Announces Class on Wilderness Survival
Former U.S. Air Force SERE specialist Jessie Krebs teaches skills to safely and confidently enjoy outdoor adventures MasterClass, the streaming platform where anyone can learn from the world’s best across a wide range of subjects, today announced that Jessie Krebs, former U.S. Air Force SERE (survival, evasion, resistance and escape) specialist and founder of SERE Training School…
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It’s time for the 2021 Delta Aquariids(video)
2021 Delta Aquariids… Yes, it’s that time once again… Time for A Summer meteor shower, the Delta Aquariids. Right now the shower is in progress, and the Delta Aquariids run almost the full month of July and most of August, when they overlap with the famous Perseid meteor shower. Radiating from the constellation Aquarius, the…
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What’s Up: July 2021 Skywatching Tips from NASA (video)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory What are some skywatching highlights in July 2021? Venus blazes as the “Evening Star” following the sunset, with a much fainter planet Mars nearby. Catch their super close pairing on July 12. Plus, if you can find your way to dark skies, this is the best time of year to enjoy…
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Asteroid Day June 30, 2021… (video)
Well, yesterday was Asteroid Day… It occurs every year on June 30th… Asteroid Day (also known as International Asteroid Day) is an annual global event which is held on the anniversary of the Tunguska event in 1908, when an asteroid leveled about 2,150 square kilometres (830 sq mi) forest in Siberia. The United Nations has proclaimed it be observed globally on June 30 every year…
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What is Summer Solstice? (video)
The summer solstice, also known as estival solstice or midsummer, occurs when one of the Earth’s poles has its maximum tilt toward the Sun. It happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere (Northern and Southern). For that hemisphere, the summer solstice is when the Sun reaches its highest position in the sky and is the day with the longest period of daylight. Within the…
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The Ultimate Guide to Starting Your Own Garden
By Dan Licamara Gardening can be fun and interesting, but it’s also can be exhausting. You have to be extremely organized, be able to think ahead of your garden, find the things you need easily, and are able to use the correct tools. However, this does not mean that gardening is easy. If you want…
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5 Easy Steps To Building The Ultimate Survival Food Kit
By Anthony S Carter Having something like a survival food kit meant you were labeled a “prepper,” as it that is somehow a bad thing. Preppers used to be laughed at and called “conspiracy theorists” for their beliefs in preparing themselves and their families for any and every upcoming hiccup that life might throw…
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‘Ring Of Fire’ Solar Eclipse on Thursday Morning (video)
On June 10, the new moon will move in front of the sun and will become 2021’s first solar eclipse. It will not cover the sun completely because it is too far from us here on Earth to become a total eclipse. The event will produce a bright annulus, or a ring that…