ME “Liz” Strauss did me the honor today of featuring me as as “B.A.D. blogger”:http://www.successful-blog.com/1/deborah-byrd-is-a-bad-blogger/ on her great website “Successful Blog.”:http://www.successful-blog.com/
Read about “me”:http://www.successful-blog.com/1/deborah-byrd-is-a-bad-blogger
there, and read about “Liz”:http://www.successful-blog.com/aboutme-liz-strauss/.
When she called earlier this week, Liz was calling from Chicago … but immediately she felt like my homegirl. Turns out she once lived in Austin, which is Earth & Sky’s hometown and my home these past 30+ years.
Liz remembered the City Grille not far from our famous 6th Street, heartcenter of the city we native and imported Texans (in all modesty) fondly call “the live music capital of the world.”:http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/music/
“Deborah Byrd is a B.A.D. blogger!”:http://www.successful-blog.com/1/deborah-byrd-is-a-bad-blogger/
Hey Deborah, thanks for mentioning the piece. Reading it just reminded me that I still have my t-shirt that says “I wasn’t born in Texas, but I got here as fast as I could.” Gosh I miss that Tex-Mes food. Luckily we live only a block away from a tiny restaurant that makes their own chips and a salsa that’s out of this world!!!
Deborah,
I am so glad Liz interviewed you and told us about this blog. This is BEAUTIFUL! You’ve got at least one new fan.
Kent
Hi Deborah, Saw your name as I was going through Liz’s blog, where I was also honored to be a B.A.D. Blogger—we’re both in the Austin area! Small world; enjoyed looking through your blog, maybe I’ll run into you in town sometime.
Best wishes and happy holidays, Sheila
Dear Deborah,
Just from my very recent and limited experience in the world of blogging, you appear to be making extraordinary contributions to humanity, science and the ubiquitous efforts of many people to save life as we know it in our planetary home and the Earth as fit place for habitation.
With good tidings,
Steve
Dear Deborah, I am a Canadian that listens to your
bits in the U.S.
Can the moon ever have a shadow going east west rather
than north, south? Thank you, Happy hollidays to you.
Hi Paul, thanks so much for your question. I moved your question about the moon into our skywatching area because I thought others there might be interested.
Everybody else … thank you all for your kind gift of commenting on this post. To me, people talking to each other is the best gift!
Deborah
Hi Deborah
I miss hearing you and Joel’s Earth and Sky program on our local NPR station KOPB FM 91.5 in Portland Oregon – I have recently spoke on NPR’s Talk of the Nation- Dec 20th – ‘The Power of Art’, an excellent discussion about art where I was the first call-in to Neal Conan and the books author Simon Schama >
http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=5&prgDate=20-Dec-06
What I am relating is my now many scientifically accurate and somewhat surreal and abstract pastel sketches of the sun as I observed it through my solar h-alpha telescope- I have created a new venue of space art for http://www.spaceweather.com and as I appeared on Nov 17th in Astronomy Picture of the Day with my ‘Hand Drawn Transit’ work of the Mercury Transit of the Sun Nov 8th.
* * * But the first info to connect to all this: There is a lot because my astronomy related artwork is now auto (hyper linked) to so many sites besides the NASA sites of where it started at >
http://www.spaceweather.com < enter the archive dates in the upper right of home page *OR copy-paste the URL’s >
Oct 14th 2006
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061117.html
Oct 31st 2006
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061117.html
*Viturbo University – My Pastel Sketch of the Mercury Transit Evokes “Servant Leadership” by Tom Jablonski >
http://servantleadershipblog.com/servant-leadership/blog/2006/11/more-on-artists-and-stars.html
There are other locations that my pastels have ended up du to web links now in – Astronomy clubs, other blog sites – Do a search on: Mark Seibold + Pastel Sketches of the Sun
I would be willing to entertain the idea of doing a talk for you and or NPR about the importance of astronomers recording their observations with sketching and its inspirational effects to create artistic creative incentive in others -Mark Seibold, Artist / Astronomer – Troutdale, Oregon