Polvo de estrellas, orquídeas, sus padres, fotos que le impresionaron, etc.

1. P O T P O U R R I The following show is a random collection of images chosen from a wide range of subjects, a few of which may be known to some of you but, still are of perennial interest. An example of perennial interest would be this first slide which has been named by astronomers as the PILLARS OF CREATION This is an appropriate first slide because these pillars, found in the Eagle Nebula, consist of interstellar gas containing the remnants of previous stars. This interstellar gas can condense to create suns and solar systems like our own. Our primordial origin is star dust. We have mindboggling history. Did some of the atoms in our body once belong to another living creature a few billion years ago! The author of this show would also like to offer a couple of glimpses of his own origin. As for the rest of the slides, may they be a source of interest and diversion. AUDIO

2. Pillars of creation

3. CRAB NEBULA In the likes of which were created the atoms that make us think.

5. C A T T L E Y A

6. V A R I O U S

8. TIBETAN 0RCHID

12. JIMMY - GERRY BILLY - NANNY This picture was taken in 1936 in front of the barn. Goats were very rare in this area; these were given to us from someone living in town. Later the nanny was given to a couple who had a sickly baby. It was believed that goat’s milk was more nutritious.

13. WEEPING FRENCHMAN This picture was taken June 14, 1940 as the German troops entered Paris. DISBELIEF - SORROW – HATRED – APPREHENSION

14. SADDAM CAPTURED SADDAM ON TRIAL SADDAM SENTENCED

16. THE CLIFF OF LAYERED VOLCANIC ASH The arrow middle left at the top of the talus slope points to where the fossil footprints are found. Actually the footprints can be traced intermittently along the entire cliff at the top of the talus slope. The lower left arrow points to the corrals – the ‘squares’. The middle bottom arrow points to the ranch house. The slanting arrow points to the entrance (hidden by the talus slope) to the mile long box-canyon. Note that the top hundred or so feet of the cliff is of a single composition. This indicates the final massive eruption and death-blow of the volcano. A million or more years later another volcano spewed flows of basalt on top of the tuff deposits .

18. GYPSUMM CRYSTALS NAICA - CHIHUAHUA

19. LOCAL FASCIATION This grew on a colorín tree in the back yard of the rectory. This is an unusual form of fasciation growths. It was about a foot across.

21. SCORPION FISH KESTRAL

22. Things children say It is the custom for all the priests of the parish, when the time comes around, to hear the first confessions of the children. On one occasion the lady in charge of this class suggested to the children that they write a note of thanks to the priest who heard his/her confession.

23. RUINS AS SEEN FROM THE STEET IN DOWNTOWN LA ESMERALDA . In the instance below already some of the salvageable materials, such as roof beams, had been removed. All the buildings in downtown were of adobe with mud roofs, and are a hundred and more years old. .Most have been maintained and now have sheet metal roofs, but some lost their importance and were abandoned

25. chaitÉn - Patagonia Massive electric storm generated within the ash plume ejected from the volcano.

26. Erotic saguaro A few hundred feet north of the Arizona / Mexico border.

28. LOCATION OF PREVIOUS SLIDE The town of Sierra Mojada is in the background at the center of the picture.

29. Qomolangma – Mt. Everest The sun had already set on this Rongbuk Buddhist guest-house compound. Elevation: 16,728”. We spent a cold night here.

30. B o r r e g o d e s e r t Thus is so much like it is around La Esmeralda that I use it as my Desktop.

31. S T. J O S E P H R E C T O R Y My present residence

32. AU REVOIR MUSIC: ROSE OF ALLENDALE By: SIDNEY NELSON P. JAIME August 2009