Aurora on the last day of August
We had a chance to watch the Northern Lights in the early morning of August 31, 2024. It wasn't as spectacular as some of the previous ones I had witnessed but I am always mesmerized with this phenomenon.
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The Greatest Show on Earth
I am back to my blog after more than a year! Like the last post, this is also about Aurora Borealis. What a show it was! There had been buzz in the social media last week about the gigantic solar storm. It was supposed to be one of the largest in last 24 years. Hence, everybody was expecting a major Aurora event. Then, Lady Aurora showed up on Friday (May 11, 2024) night. As we first looked outside at around 10:30 PM, we could see some light green and purple. As we were getting closer to the midnight, the colours started to intensify. At arounf midnight, the sky literally irrupted in multiple colours - green, yellow, pink, and gorgeous red! We observed the show from our window, backyard and the driveway from 10:30 PM - 12:45 AM and we didn't know how the time went by. The great thing about this aurora was that it had been witnessed by the huge part of the Northern Hemisphere, in places like England (including the city of London), Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and even Lada...
Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice: Album 1.
Venice, August 19, 2019. One of the highlights of our visit to Venice was to see the "Peggy Guggenheim Collection." It is a wonderful museum of modern art full of some incredible works of paintings and sculptures. Peggy Guggenheim was an American art collector and socialite. She was from the wealthy New York Guggenheim family. In 1919 when she turned 21, she inherited US$2.5 million (currently, equivalent to over US$40 million). In 1949, Ms. Guggenheim moved to Palazzo Venier dei Leoni , an 18th Century palace in Venice and opened the doors to the public with her exhibition of contemporary art. Over the years, her collection included prominent Italian futurists and American modernists in such genres like Cubism and Surrealism. After Paris, London, and New York, Venice became her city until her death on December 23, 1979. Peggy Guggenheim sitting beside one of her collections. "Sphere" by Arnaldo Pomodoro. "Three Standing Figures" by Henry Moore. A paint...