NASA's Messenger sends back first close-range pictures from Mercury.

http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/details.php?id=165

Yeah, it looks like the moon. Which makes sense (no atmosphere, etc etc).

Lots of sunny afternoons coming up for the Messenger.

This one's for the Bulldogs:

Just another tricky day.

At least the threatened inches of snow turned into milllimeters of mush.

Hokey smokes, Bullwinkle!!!

You mean I'm supposed to have something ready to post on the first day?

If I had been thinking about this a week ago, I would probably have said something like, "How about those Spartans in the NCAA Tournament?"

Ooops. Well, how about those Wolverines?

Oops again.

I would say, "How about this beautiful weather we're having?," but I just looked out the window and it looks like we'll have to shovel a few inches of it off the driveway in the morning.


 That's enough for now.  Let's get things off to a howlin' good start: