On 4 February 2006 I walked along the Via Appia Antica with the French culture group Rome et Son Histoire. We visited many of the…
Nice that Astronomy Picture of the day for 8 March, International Women’s Day, should be the Red Moon from last Saturday’s full moon eclipse. La…
This garden began in January 2007, as part of a group project in organic gardening (we’re using no fertilizers or pesticides). We planted small lettuce…
A Tail of Two Hemispheres Explanation By January 19/20 Comet McNaught’s magnificent dust tail stretched for about 150 million kilometers (~1 AU), requiring images from…
… or comet? Credit & Copyright: Noel Munford (Palmerston North Astronomical Society, New Zealand) McNaught’s comet Thanks to the Astronomy Picture of the Day for…
Carefully observe these two triangles of equal size: the forms were merely rearranged. A square is missing in the second configuration! What is the explanation?*…
Finally added the photos of Berlin, taken during the Elsevier Editors’ Conference, 13-16 October 2006. Am cleaning out all the old photo files to add…
It was last January 6, Befana Day in Italy, aka Epiphany (“manifestation” in Greek; sudden intuitive leap that lands in a flash of understanding about…
(With kind thanks to Pat and the Episcopalians at Saint Paul’s within the Walls in Rome.)
The choir went to Orvieto yesterday, Sunday 3 December, first Sunday in Advent. Very cold, even colder inside the church… but very beautiful. Here, the…
My article “Forest and tree symbolism in folklore” here, published by the FAO in the forestry journal Unasylva. Some resources on the Parco della Caffarella…
O sages standing in God’s holy fire As in the gold mosaic of a wall, Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre And…
Emilia-Romagna with sand. The beach at Cervia on the Adriatic in early morning. Beach umbrellas. David and his sand tunnels. Sand after the storm. © 2006-2014…