The northern lights illuminate the night sky over a camper's tent north of San Francisco in Middletown, California on May 11, 2024.(Image credit: Getty Images) Northern lights captured from Madison, Wisconsin during May 2024's spectacular geomagnetic storm.(Image credit: Kaitlin Moore) The Auror...
I have a need to be near the sea, and I am comforted by that edge of land and sea defining and enclosing the space where I live. I love walking on beaches, drawing in the sand, and collecting pebbles, shells, driftwood and bits of flotsum and jetsum that wash up on the shores. W...
The arrival of Europeans in the mid-1500s and onward had a significant impact on the Plains Indians, for good and bad. The goods they acquired from these new settlers entered into their artistic expression, with glass beads from Venice, cowrie shells from the Pacific Ocean, and brass buttons...
She ran to help when I spilled food in the kitchen and stared at me until I moved out of her spot on the love seat. She thought dried-out crab shells on the beach were a delicacy and could sniff out a burrito or French fries in the bushes all the way across the street. She shed...
This blog was set up to be our diary of our adventures in our Campervan Boris, which are often somewhat spontaneous! however, we have also had some big adventures without Boris, and these are included here too! We have a particular interest in Good Food so this features quite frequently,...
She was not a happy camper traveling so far without a/c. The three of us would remain somewhat glistening the entire day. Our respite, the short periods we stood near the waterfalls. Today’s plan of attack, after Glacier Point, we would retrace our steps back to Yosemite Valley, stop ...