Here's a fascinating backgrounder on the origins of and interpretations of American Thanksgiving by Thomas Tweed as published in THE CONVERSATION. https://bit.ly/4o0dkT0

2025 Nov. 11 Remembrance Day ceremonies at the Georgetown cenotaph. A few years ago I listened as a veteran commented to a group of school children about war and bullies. "Don't let anyone push you around." Always smart advice. #RoyalCanadianLegion   #haltonhills   #remembranceday

Tour boats churn past the Konstanz harbour entrance, Lake Constance, Germany. From our family visit in Schwäbisch-Gmünd we drove south to...

We made sure our road trip through the southern half of Germany included a visit with extended family members Katrin, Stanislaus and...

As one of the oldest cities in northern Europe (and arguably, Germany) Worms is probably best known as the site of Martin Luther's...

A New York Times story https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/arts/design/cleveland-superman-statues.html   talks about Cleveland, Ohio as...

Upon extricating ourselves from a rabbit hole stairwell in Cochem, next day we continued down the Mosel to Trier. Painted stairwell...

Cochem is one of those gems on the Mosel River. For travellers, the river is all about leisure. Our satisfying day trip by car from...

A German trip for Lis and me, spring 2025. The powerful Rhine and lesser Mosel rivers form an upside down wishbone where they meet at...

Not for skiing or swimming, but for hiking, driving and sightseeing, you betcha! Sure, the weather can be fickle, especially these days,...

The annual travel convention known as IPW, organized by Brand USA, promotes travel to the United States. This year it was held in...

If so, I think it's due to the human tendency to believe the first news we hear about something, plus the inability to think critically...

We're encouraging the baby aloe plantings in our entrance hall to absorb the morning sunlight and grow. The sticks, not so much.

April 1, 2025. Astounding discovery of a camera thought to be from the Photerozoic period some 10 million years ago! Imaging experts,...

The secret is freezing rain. For as long as temperatures remain below freezing, plants covered in rain that has turned to ice are...

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It was a bit chilly on our back deck at 2:30 in the morning of March 14, but I nevertheless set up my camera to capture the blood lunar...

https://n.pr/41um0be The images from these photographers are an inspiration to utilize our visual voices.

I'm in the middle of creating a series of brief pictorial narratives about English novelist Jane Austen. Whether identifying as Janeites...

As reported in today's Feb. 2 Smithsonian magazine https://bit.ly/42GiBIl Back in 2014 I had posted this (awfully cluttered) page on my...