As we (in the southern hemisphere) move into Spring and the longer days it's great to see virtually an extra minute of daylight every day. That also means the excuses for me not getting on with the gardening are also diminishing - though I don't believe the neighbours will appreciate my leafblower running at the crack of dawn.
It's a pain to have to periodically remember to look up somewhere on the net (usually sunrisesunset.com) to find when sunrise and sunset fall. It's also useful to know when a full moon is rolling around as it does provide great sunset photo opps. Essentially the full moon is so bright that the best time to photograph it is as it leaps over the horizon on the eve of the full moon. On this day the virtually full moon crests the horizon just before the sun goes down. This means there is more balanced light and you can more easily capture the beauty of the full moon.
Anyhow figured there should be an easy way to get this info into a iCal file so I can easily import it into Apple's imaginantively named Ical. There is -- it's called TideCal. It's not very flashy but it does just the trick and it's freeware. Marvellous. If you are a non-Mac user you can turn to XTide which is on various flavours of *nix and has been ported to Win32.
Note I have pondering my garden over winter (hence not many postings) and watching excess amounts of Gardening Australia - I fear that I will soon take on the vocabulary of it's venerable host - Peter Cundall. "And that's your blooming lot for this week". Oh well I seem to have lived my life by leaping from obsession to obsession. Pottering around in the garden should keep me out of trouble for a bit, actually my garden is large enough to consume me for many years. I am looking forward to it.
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