The EYE Film Institute Netherlands, and the associated cinematography museum formerly called the Filmmuseum, have posted a few short videos of Amsterdam from almost a century ago. What a wonderful thing to share. This is one of the video clips of Amsterdam from 1927. This is some of the earliest footage of Amsterdam. I think …
I like playing around with Google Earth. Ever since a 3rd grade “mapping skills,” class at the American School of Paris more than 25 years ago, I have been completely hooked on maps and globes. As a Third Culture Kid, maps held answers to questions about the country I was going …
Ipi, I know you enjoy posting pictures of flowers and gardens. I think you will enjoy the below set of pictures of your flowers and gardens that I have taken over the last few years. Enjoy!
A fearless and rather photogenic arthropod, eager to pose. This little critter loves coffee just as much as I do: the giant red-winged grasshopper (Tropidacris cristata ). A common pest on coffee farms in the Americas, the stripes of black and yellow of this juvenile will disappear after several molts and will …
A couple recently traveled to and blogged about visiting El Salvador, and El Zonte in particular. Their website, Hop on the Good Foot, has some wonderful pictures of many of the places one should visit when in El Salvador (Santa Ana, Suchitoto, Juayúa for example). One of my favorite pictures that Olwen and Rich …
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