Dear Friends,
While the posts on sundial superlatives seem to have diminished lately, I was
inspired by recent posts by Bill Maddux and Gordon Ube
The biggest
The most accurate
The loveliest,
and The most romantic
First we will have to abandon our chauvinistic notions about our own little
sun. It is too close, too bright, and the fact that our
Let's find another sun. (Perhaps somebody else's sun?) In fact let's use a lot
of suns.
My sundial then, is the heavens - filled with a myriad of suns - as observed at
night with (or perhaps without) a transit instrument
On the point of loveliness I might yield to Bill's concept of the earth itself
as sundial, but I will hold my ground as to size and
This leaves only romance to consider.
This sundial works only at night and as authority, I cite the blues singer Ray
Charles:
The night time,
Ooo..., Is the right time,
For hugging,
And kissing.
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On the local front, The Miami Herald recently published two articles on my
activities in one week. The first was part of a feature
The second, longer, article was about my interest in sundials and my opinion of
sundials in South Florida.("SPOTLIGHTING THE SUNDIAL
It includes two photographs, one with my laser trigon, the other of me
"catching rays" while relaxing inside the sundial I built out
Both articles, with photographs, can be found on my Web pages:
http://www.shadow.net/~bobt
Best regards,
Bob Terwilliger
