Kathleen Charters and Lawrence Charters
Explorations large and small
In May 2024, a series of CMEs (coronal mass ejections) sent billions of tons of highly charged particles rushing outward from the Sun at between 500 to 3000 kilometers per second. When some of these particles reached the upper atmosphere Continue reading Aurora Borealis, May 2024
There has been much news froth about UFOs over the past several years, for no good reason. There are some who still argue the Earth is flat, and others that vaccines are a plot by Communists or drug companies or Continue reading UFOs: They’re out there, or right here
April 7, 1931 — February 1, 2022 Saturday, April 9, 2022, 2:00 p.m. — Trinity United Methodist Church, Sequim, Washington Visual Memories Gathering Music: “Trauermarsch (Siegfried’s Funeral March),” by Richard Wagner [one of two musical selections requested by Pearletta] Welcome: Pastor Continue reading A Celebration of the Life of Pearletta Anne Harris
Pearletta Anne Harris Pearletta May Lemley was born on April 7, 1931, in the depths of the Great Depression, in the small Indian village of Olequa, north of Castle Rock, Washington. She was born in a primitive settler’s home, without Continue reading Eulogy
Sequim, Washington is a very small town on the Olympic Peninsula, which is a very large peninsula. Each year the town, and the Jamestown S’Kallam Tribe, do an extraordinary job of turning the town into a winter fantasy of lights Continue reading Christmas in Sequim: Sparkly
One of the most violent channels along the coast of the United States can be found off Cape Disappointment, at the mouth of the Columbia River. The cape is on the north side of the Columbia River as it flows Continue reading Cape Disappointment on a sunny day
Checklist of World Heritage Sites visited in the United States. This is a dynamic list, with plans for checking off more sites in the future. ✔︎ means “visited,” and ✖︎ means “need to visit.” Mesa Verde National Park – ✖︎ Continue reading World Heritage Sites, United States
Last week, a penguin completed an epic migration that lasted a couple years and thousands of miles. When measured in penguin distances, it encompassed more miles than Neil Armstrong traveled going to the moon and back in his celebrated “one Continue reading Epic penguin migration
Modern farming equipment can harvest and package a crop in a single pass: At least that’s what I assume is going on here.