What people eat tells you a lot about their culture, but is the same to be said about what their pets eat?
For the past five years, I’ve been spending Christmas holidays as well as other weeks, taking care of three cats. They live, with their owners, just outside the village of Roussillon. More
With a winter waning away with weather that was wanting for wishers of a winning snowfall, let’s stop to wonder at the beauty of a snowflake. “No two snowflakes are alike” is a saying attributed to Wilson Bentley, Vermont’s most famous resident and pioneer photographer of individual snowflakes.
Of the billions and trillions of snowflakes that fall in NW lower Michigan in a normal winter season, there is often little notice given to the construct of this frozen speck of water. More
After breakfast we had a chance to see the Panama Canal and get a glimpse of the rain forest from another perspective.
We left the cruise ship on a lighter that carried us to shore where we boarded a bus which took us to the railroad station. There we boarded Panama Railways “Rio Bayano #105″ for our trip across the Isthmus. More
In the cool, quiet woods and hills between Sofia and Vitosha Mountain in Bulgaria is tiny Boyana Church. Built in the 10th and 11th centuries of pinkish brown brick, it has a tile roof and is nestled beneath giant sequoia trees, a gift of Canada. There is a bit of lawn around the church and an old cemetery to one side with gray, tilted gravestones. More
I realize teenage girls like makeup, and I am even guilty of buying it for my daughter. I don’t think it is a bad thing, and I don’t have a problem with my daughter wearing it — in moderation. The problem I had was when my daughter first wanted to wear makeup in about the 7th or 8th grade. More
Because the moon is tidally locked with Earth, it only presents one face to the planet’s surface (the near side). The side of the moon that faces away from Earth is the far side. Only robotic spacecraft and the Apollo astronauts who orbited the moon in the 1960s and 1970s have seen the far side of the moon directly. However, a new video was captured Jan. 19th by one of two GRAIL orbiters using a novel camera called MoonKAM. More
Well, I finally got to see the whales everyone has been talking about. The other day I got up and decided to take a walk down to Hut Point and enjoy the view. When I got down there I saw water shooting up into the air and realized that it was coming from a whale. It was so cool to see them in there natural habitat. More
Welcome to my favorite lunch of all time. In the dog days of summer, I eat this at least two times a week. It throws together in a trice* and fills me up without weighing me down. In the winter, I eat this as a way to stave off the cold-weather blahs.
“Never before has the federal government forced individuals and organizations to go out into the marketplace and buy a product that violates their conscience.” So said New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, cardinal-designate, and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. “This shouldn’t happen in a land where free exercise of religion ranks first in the Bill of Rights.” More
In Bulgaria’s Rila Mountains, up a twisting road within the forest, a tall stone wall surrounds and hides the beautiful interior of Rila Monastery.
In 852, Tsar Boris of Bulgaria converted to Christianity. A few years later a young man, age 25, also became a Christian and left his life of herding animals to enter Granitsa Monastery in southwest Bulgaria. After receiving training and education he left the monastery and settled in a cave in the Rila Mountains where he prayed, taught, healed people and wrote his testament. More
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