Something Fishy
Which is fishier: GIANT GOLDFISH FOUND IN LAKE TAHOE CATFISH HALTS HOCKEY GAME YUNJI DE NIES ASKING QUESTIONS SUSHI All are real stories.
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Cryin’ in a Field of Bluebonnets
Happy Easter (or a late Happy Passover) if you are celebrating it today. Don’t be too sad if your bunny ears do not fit. Someone’s bound to take a picture. And before you know it, it’ll go up on...
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Cherry Blossoms Complain about Mass Shooting
People photograph one of the few trees displaying a large number of fully-opened cherry blossoms along the Tidal Basin in Washington, April 7, 2013. Washington’s celebrated cherry trees, which have...
View ArticleTornado Strikes Attack OK
Should you be the praying sort, please add Oklahoma to your list. They have had quite a rough day with brutal tornadoes: A tornado at least a half mile-wide with 200mph winds churned through Oklahoma...
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An open-air asylum for nutter’s
Stonehenge is perhaps the most famous prehistoric monument in the world. Begun as a simple earthwork enclosure, it was built in several stages, with the unique lintelled stone circle being erected in...
View ArticleA Sheepish Puya Chilensis
The puya chilensis, a native of Chile, is a very sheepish plant. And the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) at Wisley promised the public that it would finally bloom. (The Surrey green thumbs have not...
View ArticleNik Wallenda, Skywalker of the Canyon
So I am watching Nik Wallenda walk the Grand Canyon. And I can’t help but to think that this is not a career that has a lot of longevity. Nik is halfway through or so and doing fine: His father, Terry...
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A murder mystery solved
For the past fortnight we have endured a heat wave, with a still wind temperature cracking the pavement sidewalk at 30 degrees. On the odd occasion whilst sat with my back against the tree log, I have...
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The Ocean, She Is Fabric
An aircraft carrier cuts through the ocean like a pair of sharp scissors over fabric.
View ArticleThe Mi’kmaqs Go Wild
If you are Canadian and intend to protest fracking, is it not detrimental and self-contradictory that you are dancing around while burning tires?
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Mother nature dictates the rules
The debate about climate change is distracting us from the true causes of flooding, a group of eminent scientists warned yesterday. Concreting and building over flood plains, cutting down trees and...
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“Can you hear some thing rumbling”
Mean-while, the occupants of a hamlet on a hill-side road west of Tramin, Bolzano, around the Tyrolean mountains of Italy; thought they could hear thunder rumbling in the near distance… Or was it a...
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A tall strong ‘President’
“The President” is one of the biggest trees in the world, and until now, there’s never been a photograph of its entirety. The tree is 247 feet tall and is 3,200 years old. It has an estimated two...
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Sequoia semper vierens ‘forever living’
Ancient California redwoods decimated by poachers who are hacking out giant burl’s to sell on to furniture makers. Northern California park officials say that poachers are endangering 1,000=year-old...
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5 minutes worth of words & wisdom.
‘Look Up’ A spoken word film for an online generation ~ Five minutes of words & wisdom. The digital tool is a way of life and a necessary evil that does not have to take over ones existence. I...
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