In the photo above, you can see the Pleiades close to the lower left of the moon. Mercury is just below the dark cloud further to the lower left of the moon.
These photos are 100% crops that provide closeups of the moon and the Pleiades. The photo above was taken later than the photo below. So the sky is darker and the moon has moved a little bit relative to the Pleiades.
In the photo below, you can see the old church location on the right, and an arrow pointing the sign at the new location.
It is a corner lot one block in from the main road along "hotel row" and more or less opposite the entrance to the Sand Dollar condo complex. There is a lot of construction going on in this area of Bonaire these days.
The land has been cleared in preparation for work on the foundation.
The trailer had two buildings on it, one for the IBC and one for the Green Label nursery. 
Johan helps load the beams onto the Gradall forklift, while Walt supervises from the ground level.
Trans World Radio employed the same Gradall to install a satellite dish a year or so ago. I've seen it busy hauling cement loads to the second floor level at building sites too, so it is a versatile machine indeed.
That giant mound in the middle of the picture is the raw material, kindly donated by the Puntu Blanku chicken farm.
Above we see Walt Bensen and Wai Man Chan (China Nobo) in action.
Pastor Baran swings a mean pick. The well aged chicken manure is pretty easy to shovel, and doesn't smell that bad at all.
A number of the young people from the church have been key players in the chicken poo production process.
These pictures are of a new single track section that Miguel has added to the old Yatu Baku race loop. The advanced riders will tackle the new trail section, but the rest of the riders will stick to the dirt roads of the mostly entry level race course.
This new trail is reasonably easy to ride, compared to some I've seen. Sections of the rocky Cannonball Trail, near Ringwood, NJ, come to mind. But the Bonaire trail has its own unique "charms."
The defining features of this trail are the fields of Tuna cactus and the thorny Cossie trees along the path. Even fairly minor rider errors will almost certainly result in some serious scrapes and painful punctures from those nasty barbed spines. Miguel calls these wounds, "souvenirs," proving that he is indeed the proverbial, ever optimistic, personal trainer.
The start of the race loop is pictured above. Most of the course is nice wide dirt roads that are fun to ride. Although I have to admit that at a full-on race pace, even a gentle uphill road like this one eventually becomes killer painful. I remember the start of my first race here. I noticed that the serious racers were lining up at the start of the course in the same rear cog as I was. But they were on the big ring in front, and I had trained for the race with the middle chain ring. I knew I was in beeeg beeeg trouble.
Above we see a couple stragglers approaching the finish area of the race loop on a training ride. They claimed to have suffered a flat tire. hmmm.... Me, I just stop to take pictures when I'm tired, ha-ha.
The first half of the loop is gentle uphill and the last half is downwind, downhill and fast. There is a loose rocky climb in the middle of the course. Usually I can zoom up this, but sometimes I end up looking like a real dork, and crash when I can't unclip from the pedals in time.
The guys have figured out that I can get a good picture of them from the ground, so they were ready for me when they saw me out in the field with my telephoto lens.
On the other hand, Amazon has a list of fifteen movies that were partly filmed on the grounds of the observatory so the Tinseltown connection isn't entirely lacking.
The lights of LA were quite impressive, although smog limited the visibility somewhat.
We shivered in line as we waited for the 7:45 pm planetarium show. After the show, we could have observed Saturn through the observatories 12" refractor. But the line was loooong, it was already midnight on our east coast body clocks, and also a little on the cool side for Caribbean sensibilities. Of course, if it had just been me... no line would have been too long and I would have courted pneumonia to see Saturn in that scope, but there were others to think of.
There sure were a lot of shiny cars in Los Angeles. The Bonaire sun and salt makes short work of that shiny new car appearance. One doesn't notice it that much until one goes some place where even old cars look like new.
Our Bonaire station director, Joe Barker, was in Bogota, Colombia last week for the TWR Latin American partner's conference known as CRAL 2009. CRAL is an acronym for CONSEJO REGIONAL PARA AMERICA LATINA. Joe can be seen smack in the middle of the last row is this group photo.
Representatives from 14 TWR partnering countries in the Americas region took part in the sessions which featured reports and training. This was also the first opportunity for most of these people to meet Lauren Libby, the new President of TWR international.
More CRAL photos can be found on Georgina Thompson's blog.
I took the above picture back on February 27. It was on the blog together with the Moon, which was nearby at the time.
Here is how Venus looked last night, March 19.
Roger and Maryann Jacobsen were on a one week cruise, starting and ending in Panama, and stopped here for a day. 
We visited all the usual spots, had a yummy Bonarian lunch at Antriol Catering, and visited the TWR studio and TX sites as well.
If you look closely, you can see the tower painting crew about half way up the left hand tower.
Recently she made a slip cover for the dog's sofa bed. You see, from time to time, they decide to play with and/or chew on the cushions.... so Sandra thought that if the whole thing was covered over, the cushions would be safe.
So far so good. Maybe leaving that cardboard around for them to chew on helps too..
While Benny is on the tower, Ivan is working at clearing some of the bushes that are growing in the antenna field and interfering with the radial wires that extend radially (duh) from the base of each tower.
Benny is checking the structural integrity of one of the towers a week or two before the painting crew got started. I don't have any painting pictures from this year, yet. I may get some on Friday.
Yesterday we heard from Alberto, our TWR partner in Cuba, who produces the new program, Mensajes de Fe y Esperance there. It is on the air from Bonaire Monday through Friday nights.
There were still lots of fish to be seen, and the coral looked good down over the dropoff. We always see squid at Andrea 2.
This Gorgonian looked good, but I think it was the only one in the whole Andrea 1 / Andrea 2 snorkeling area.
We saw Comet Lulin for the first time Saturday night. It was super easy to spot in binoculars and I could just detect it with my naked eye from our back yard. It would have been easier to spot if we had gone to a darker location on the island, but it was too cloudy to make the outing worthwhile. That and a strong self preservation instinct that tends to keep me off the roads as much as possible during Carnival season.
It was just clear enough this morning to spot the Moon, Mercury, Jupiter and Mars (in order of appearance from upper right to lower left) lined up in the sky. The picture above is one of the first ones I took, when the sky was still pretty dark and Mars was just barely visible to the naked eye. There are a few stars visible as well.
Then the clouds moved in and it was a good while 'till I got some more chances to take pictures. I needed binoculars to spot Mars by this time, but it can still be seen in the above photo.
These leaves seem to start green and then turn reddish. The flowers are cool too.
The vines with the purple flowers are all over this year.
These bushes are all over the trails this year too. We could hears bees buzzing in the background.
