White

My dearest readers, I have long time not written on my blog.  I got influenza in two months ago and I got well at the end of March 2013.  I am lucky, I am good now, thanks God.  I would like to write something about myself this time.  I like white,  I think it is beautiful.  White colour is perfectly pure and clean. It expresses clean, no dirty, no mistake and no guilt. Sometimes, it means peace and nobleness.  White pigeon flying in the blue sky at the International Day of Peace or National Day means freedom and peace. I like white rose because it is very special and beautiful.  White rose has many meanings and symbols. A pristine white rose symbolize purity, innocence and virtue, it represents young love, new love and marriage. It means everlasting or eternal love, loyalty, humility and reverence.  The white rose are used at funerals as a symbol of spiritual love and remembrance in death, it means heavenliness, spiritual love and respect.  

Light

I had fever on 6 February 2013.  I have been sick and I coughed a lot during whole month of February until today. I stayed at home during Chinese New Year holidays.  I hate it was happened at the beginning of year, everyday I lay down on the bed looked through the window.  Some cotton and bauhinia blakeana trees are planted near the road close to City Park. A small mountain is behind the tall building, which is opposite to City Park. I want to go the mountain, smell fresh air and scent of grass, hear birds singing and listen the river song. I want to be there but I was weak and tired. I prayed and looked at the sky.  I saw the sun, the sunray crossed clouds gone down to the ground.  It gives us warm.  I remember light was created in the first day by God.

Genesis 1 (World English Bible)

The Creation

1 In the beginning God [1] created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

3 God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” There was evening and there was morning, one day.

6 God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” 7 God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. 8 God called the expanse “sky.” There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

9 God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so. 10 God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas.” God saw that it was good. 11 God said, “Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;” and it was so. 12 The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. 13 There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

14 God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so. 16 God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good. 19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

20 God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky.” 21 God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 23 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

24 God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so. 25 God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.

26 God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

29 God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food. 30 To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.

31 God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

Light is good. It light up darkness, it means faith, hope and love to us.

Psalm 112:4 

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

I like the blue sky, it is very beautiful. Which is reflected on the sea, the blue sky and ocean are famous beauties in the world. 

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light sky at  http://www.tourism.gov.hk/symphony/   at  http://uniquelysingapore.org/

River

A river with mystic and romantic stories that is Nile.  “Death in the Nile” was published on Nov 1937 and “Daughter of the Nile” was published on July 1976 are famous books.  I read “Daughter of the Nile” when I was kid and like this book.  It provides many thoughts and I imagined it has love, beauty and life that happened among this river, and the romantic love story of the daughter of Nile.  

Nile

The Nile River is the longest river of the world.  It is risen from Burundi cross Egypt then goes to South Sudan with an approximate length of 4,160 miles.  The second longest river is Amazon located in South America, its source in Peru flows through Brazil into the Atlantic Ocean and its approximate length is 4,049 miles.  Amazon River is the world greatest river, it carry largest volume of water discharged into the sea.  The generally accepted method among scientists is to measure the length of the longest continuous river channel in a given river systems.  Water is a life source to human.  It has the longest history and oldest story.  However long of the river, it feeds everything; it gives life in the earth.  The river has many mouths which join together flowing into the sea and it also creates waterfalls.  The river flows like a dance and it’s collision like a song. 

France is a beautiful country with art and sense of romanticism.  The Eiffel Tower and The Louvre are part of its cultural heritage.  The Mona Lisa has her room in Louvre.  The longest river in France is Loire River (630 miles) and the last wild river in all of Europe flowing westward from the south of Cevennes into Orleans and the city of tours, and spilling into the Atlantic Ocean at Nantes.  On the 2nd December 2000, the Loire River was recognized as a World Heritage site.  The UNESCO committee said that the Loire is “an exceptional cultural landscape, of great beauty, comprised of historic cities and villages, great architectural monuments – the Châteaux – and lands that have been cultivated and shaped by centuries of interaction between local populations and their physical environment, in particular the Loire itself.”

I like rivers because it is powerful.  The beauty of it’s unlimited energy create life.  It is life source to the earth. 

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Water Drop

There are some days raining from winter to spring in Hong Kong.  I hate bad rain.  There is black cloud on the sky, it is bad weather cloudy and wet when it is rainy day. The sun cause the water to evaporate, the evaporated water floats up  into the atmosphere, the water vapor cools down and condense to form clouds.  When clouds condense enough, the water vapor will turn back into a liquid and fall to the earth as rain.  This is called the water cycle.  The rain drops falling down on the farm, tree, flower, grass, river and ground.  Water drop feeds land and animals, water the plant, the plant grows up after rain.  Afterward sunray gives light and warm to the earth take care of the land.  The water drops before dry on the leaves, it is small and transparent, which looks like a little crystal.  I like to catch this beautiful moment. 

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Meteor Shower

I set by the window at night, looking through the glass on the night sky.  I saw the moon and stars.  They are shining and beautiful at every night. In some old stories, it saying a star falls, a soul fill up and rise to heaven bring together your wish to God. When you make a wish at once you see the Meteor, meteor will catch your wish make it comes true. Meteor comes from past cross present go to future, your wish would finally realized.

I missed a time to see Orionid Meteor Shower in Hong Kong at 2012. The great time (Hong Kong time) was from Sunday 21 October 11:59pm to the peak period on Monday 22 October 4:30am. The best viewing conditions will be in the predawn hours on Sunday the 21st away from the city lights. The zenith each outgoing rate ZHR,: 20 pcs meteor.

Meteors are bright trails of light in the sky when interplanetary particles or meteorites enter the Earth's atmosphere at high speed and burn in friction.

Sometimes, many meteors streak across the sky with similar trajectories forming meteor showers. These meteors appear to emanate from the same point in the sky. Meteor showers typically last a few hours to a few days and recur every year though with varying intensities.

Let us to know more about meteor shower :

The meteor shower is that many of the meteor from the sky in a so-called radiation point emitted by astronomical phenomena in the night sky. There float in the vast reaches of our Solar System swarms of sand bits and dust clods known as meteoroids. When these "space debris" tear into the Earth's atmosphere, air friction causes them to burn, forming momentary bright streaks that blaze across the sky. These are the meteors that we see from time to time.

Meteors often appear as sporadic lonely streaks that traverse somewhat random paths in the sky. This sporadic activity, which persists throughout the year, can account for about 10 visible meteors every hour on a clear night.

A "meteor shower" occurs when our home planet encounters a relatively dense region of meteoroids in space. An unusually large number of meteors can then be seen streaming from a certain point in the sky known as the "radiant". Most astronomers believe that meteoroids are of cometary origin. They are leftovers from periodic comets or are even fragmented comet nuclei. This at least accounts for the fact that a particular group of meteoroids shares with its parent comet more or less the same orbit, which can remain relatively unchanged over eons. An immediate consequence is that our Earth makes periodic rendezvous with this meteoroid swarm, thereby culminating in a regular display of these celestial fireworks. To name a few, we have the Lyrids in April and the Geminids in December.

Most of the meteor body than even small gravel, almost all meteoroids will be destroyed within the atmosphere, it will not hit the Earth's surface and able to hit the fragments of the Earth's surface is called a meteorite. A large number of special or unusual performance meteor shower will be referred to as "prominent meteor" or "meteor storm" may hour meteor will be more than 1,000 pieces.

The color of a meteor is the chemical composition of the meteoroid and a manifestation of the reaction temperature: sodium atoms emit light orange, yellow iron, magnesium is blue-green, calcium purple, silicon is red.

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Footprints In The Sand

One night a man had a dream.

He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the Lord.

Across the sky flashed scenes from his life.

For each scene, he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand; one belonging to him, and the other to the Lord.

When the last scene of his life flashed before him, he looked back at the footprints in the sand.

He noticed that many times along the path of his life there was only one set of footprints. 

He also noticed that it happened at the very lowest and saddest times in his life.

This really bothered him and he questioned the Lord about it.

"Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you, you'd walk with me all the way.

But I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life there is only one set of footprints. 

I don't understand why when I needed you most you would leave me"

The Lord replied, "My precious, precious child, I love you and I would never leave you.  

During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints in the sand, it was then that I carried you."

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Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis

When I see some photos of aurora I think it is amazing, it is so beautiful when the lights in the sky, how wonderful of aurora is a nature to people lived in the earth, people even travel thousands of miles just to see the brilliant light shows in the earth's atmosphere.  We would smile on this nature and praise to God for this gift to us. Aurora will happen in northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere, they are aurora borealis (the Northern Lights) and the aurora australis (the Southern Lights).  We can see aurora in the clear and darkness sky by the time of sunrise and sunset, people would see aurora from dusk to dawn throughout the night, so the best way is watching around the midnight, aurora happens in three to four hours.  The northern hemisphere has winter and the darkness, which is essential to see the aurora, the South Pole has bright daylight all day long. 
So the only time to watch southern lights in Antarctica is during fall and spring. The best places to watch aurora are high northern latitudes during the winter in Alaska, Canada, and Skandinavia.

What causes the aurora?

It is energetic charged particles from the magnetosphere.  Definitely aurora is precipitating energetic particles which are electrons and protons that are energized in the near geospace environment.  This energization process draws its energy from the interaction of the Earth’s magnetosphere with the solar wind.

The auroras both surrounding the north magnetic pole (aurora borealis) and south magnetic pole (aurora australis) occur when highly charged electrons from the solar wind interact with elements in the earth's atmosphere. Solar winds stream away from the sun at speeds of about 1 million miles per hour. When they reach the earth, some 40 hours after leaving the sun, they follow the lines of magnetic force generated by the earth's core and flow through the magnetosphere, a teardrop-shaped area of highly charged electrical and magnetic fields.

As the electrons enter the earth's upper atmosphere, they will encounter atoms of oxygen and nitrogen at altitudes from 20 to 200 miles above the earth's surface. The color of the aurora depends on which atom is struck, and the altitude of the meeting.

• Green - oxygen, up to 150 miles in altitude

• Red - oxygen, above 150 miles in altitude

• Blue - nitrogen, up to 60 miles in altitude

• Purple/violet - nitrogen, above 60 miles in altitudeb

Photographic film has a different sensitivity to colors than the eye, therefore you often see more red aurora on photos than with the unaided eye. Since there is more atomic oxygen at high altitudes, the red aurora tends to be on top of the regular green aurora. The colors that we see are a mixture of all the auroral emissions. Just like the white sunlight is a mixture of the colors of the rainbow, the aurora is a mixture of colors. The overall impression is a greenish-whitish glow. Very intense aurora gets a purple edge at the bottom. The purple is a mixture of blue and red emissions from nitrogen molecules.All of the magnetic and electrical forces react with one another in constantly shifting combinations. These shifts and flows can be seen as the auroras "dance," moving along with the atmospheric currents that can reach 20,000,000 amperes at 50,000 volts. (In contrast, the circuit breakers in your home will disengage when current flow exceeds 15-30 amperes at 120 volts.)

The auroras generally occur along the "auroral ovals," which center on the magnetic poles (not the geographic poles) and roughly correspond with the Arctic and Antarctic circles. There are times, though, when the lights are farther south, usually when there are a lot of sunspots. Sunspot activity follows an 11-year cycle.

The next peak will occur in 2011 and 2012, so opportunities to see auroras outside their normal range should be good. Why don’t spend time to see this natural phenomenon when our life is short?  Why don’t spend time to love nature when it is here for you? Why don’t spend time to relax when it is valuable?  Auroras has always fascinated mankind, It is mirable and incredible, deeply impression in our heart. I could imagine how beautiful of its dancing in the sky, that is no regret to live in the earth and never forget it.  Let us to keep the world greatest beauty to enjoy our life, to relax our soul, to breath in fresh air.  Fellow protect Nature, just do it now !

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