Alien Invasion? And Moodring CD

Cool lenticular cloud captured over Wyoming..
These layered clouds are typically formed by high winds over rugged terrain, and particularly apparent when few other clouds are in the sky

On a totally unrelated note, I ordered the Third of Never Moodring CD
from CDBaby, and received the coolest order confirmation email EVER!


"Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with
sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.

A team of 50 employees inspected your CD and polished it to make sure
it was in the best possible condition before mailing.

Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over
the crowd as he put your CD into the finest gold-lined box that money
can buy.

We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party
marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of
Portland waved "Bon Voyage!" to your package, on its way to you, in
our private CD Baby jet on this day, Monday, June 25th.

I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. We sure did.
Your picture is on our wall as "Customer of the Year." We're all
exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Sigh..."

--
Derek Sivers, president, CD Baby
the little store with the best new independent music
http://cdbaby.com cdbaby@cdbaby.com (503)595-3000

Put on a Happy Face

This is the Martian crater Galle.
A large meteor impacted the surface of Mars,
creating internal markings reminiscent of a smiley face.

Go ahead...try not to crack a smile when you look at it!
;-)

And, in case anyone is curious...
I decided I would go ahead and use Kayla instead of KJ.
The way I figure it, old bf will find me on Blogger if he hasn't already.

Space Shuttle Atlantis Plume

Cool smoke plume from the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis
June 8, 2007

Persian Rice and Will Rogers...What? You're looking as though the two have nothing in common?!

While I was on vacation recently, I made one HELL of a pot of steamed Persian rice. This photo is from the bottom of the large pot and is very crunchy rice.
The steamed rice cooks on top of this piece (inverted) and turns out very light and fluffy...not sticky. That is, IF you do it right!
Ha..I've done it wrong many times.
Crush and dilute a little saffron and pour over the top of the steamed rice and it makes a lovely dish.
All you ever wanted to know about making rice, right??
;-)

Must now include obligatory photo of Will Rogers.
Can you guess what city/state I'm in?