Frank's Sketchbook Entry of the Day

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RedVenusSliverMoon   July 16, 2026 The Air Quality Index (AQI) has been around 160-180 today. Walking back from dinner with friends, I noticed Venus sitting fairly low on the horizon with a small sliver of the moon (looking like a close parenthesis). Both of them were really red. I grabbed my camera when I got home and took a few handheld pictures of the sky. I think this was the best of the set. Venus and the moon-sliver are pretty visible and there's a silhouette of a tree on the bottom right. The full resolution image is here and it's probably. pretty noisy. It's a little reminsicent of the sun between the Moon monolith and the crescent earth in 2001: A Space Odyssey. So there's that. I guess if we're going to have unbreathable air, at least we get some pretty visuals...

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I tend to doodle. Over the years, I've accumulated lots of random sketches of things, sometimes people, sometimes things, and sometimes just abstract lines. The basic idea on these pages is for me to slowly scan in highlights from my collection of random quick doodles. I also am providing a place where I can explain what it is or what motivated it or perhaps some reason why I'm not to blame. With the sketches of people, their name may be hand-written, or there might be a talk title provided, but I will tend to avoid providing full names. I don't mind if people know who they are, I just don't want them coming up on search engine hits, since that might be a bit rude.

Note that the images are PNGs with transparency. Mozilla and Firefox properly render them. Safari too, I think. Internet Exporer doesn't. I don't care.
If you want to see the image without the annoying blue-lined background image, just click on the image.

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