Pine Cone Picking
From My Little Norway, 5 month ago Similar articles
Pine cone picking in our forrest is a fun family activity. Â Our land changes so dramatically from season to season and this activity not only gives us supplies for Christmas decorations but it gives us farmers a chance to look at how the land is shaping and see what is happening to the trees. Â We... Click on the title to read more at My Little Norway.
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The Lairig Ghru never disappoints
From Letters from Iceland, 1 weeks ago, Similar articles
Wow! A vital ingredient for happiness.  November in the Lairig Ghru. I packed all my warm clothes, my waterproofs and extra dubbin ... but I forgot the sunscreen. Intellectually, I know these places are important habitats, that the trees in the distance are one of the few remnants of the Caledonian Pine Forest, that these terraces and ridges are the marks of past glaciers with ice-marginal lagoons dotted with icebergs, that the broad, distant valley was once filled with a ...
Wild Garlic Hummus Recipe
From Nami-nami, 1 weeks ago, Similar articles
The wild garlic season has began here in Estonia. For almost a fortnight I see people foraging for the pungent wild leaves in a nearby forest, and I've been picking a small brown paper bag full of leaves twice myself. The other day I was browsing on Pinterest for lovely wild garlic ideas, and came across this lovely recipe for wild garlic hummus on Shaheen's blog Allotment2Kitchen. I used my regular hummus recipe and simply added a generous handful of wild garlic leaves. The result was a...
Thank You, AdventureMan
From Here There and Everywhere, 2 weeks ago, Similar articles
This is a shakedown trip for the new iPad. I love the way it travels, and that it is bigger than an iPhone for picking up e-mail, and I have a keyboard, so I can write. It is a lot harder to blog. It is harder to crop and manipulate photos, it is harder to integrate the photos into my blog entries. It was so much more difficult that I just didn’t do it. I had a lot of ideas and a lot of photos, but not enough time (you know how it is when you are traveling) to figure out how to get the...
Eddie Izzard Saved Lucy's Life
From Ali Blah Blah, 2 weeks ago, Similar articles
Last week I Heimlich'd a diamante heart out of Lucy and she started breathing again.I couldn't write about it for a while, because it was so shocking and surreal and such an incredibly close call. We'd just come home from work/school/preschool. The 45 minute loop from my office to their respective schools to home is hard to do at the end of a long day. I love picking them up, learning about their day, who pushed who (Lucy) and how baby zebras can tell their Moms by their stripes (Anna). It's...
Controversy
From At Home In Rome, 3 weeks ago, Similar articles
Any excuse to get some early-80s Prince in there. For some reason I just feel like picking a fight. Not really a fight, necessarily, but just… why not stir up some trouble' I am itching to discuss some things that normally don’t get enough airtime as far as I’m concerned. Shall we talk' 1) Cheating on spouses. Does this happen more in Italy, or is it just that I hear about it more and people are more open about it' I know of a number of couples who more or less everyone...
How to say "it's a no-no" in French'
From French Word-A-Day, 4 weeks ago, Similar articles
"If these chairs could talk" Photo taken after last year's wine harvest... when we stole away to the restful southern coast of Corsica. When Chief Grape isn't picking grapes... he's busy looking for wine importers and distributors. Check out his Danish distributor, here!  ça ne se fait pas (saah-neuh-seuh-fay-pah)   : it's a no-no Follow French Word-A-Day on Twitter Learn French in context: read these vocabulary-rich...
Late Afternoon in DeLuna Park
From Here There and Everywhere, 1 month ago, Similar articles
One of the great joys of living in Pensacola is seeing our grandson often. Yesterday, we were picking him up and keeping him until dinner, so we decided to take him to run in the fountains, only to discover that the fountains stop at 5 on Mondays – Wednesdays, and run until 8 on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. No problem – there is always something going on to thrill a two years old’s heart. Yesterday, it was a tug-boat bringing in a huge dredger, with CRANES! Our two...
Batter Up!
From Forever is Tomorrow is Today, 1 month ago, Similar articles
We have had Finn playing soccer for a year now, with breaks, so like 3 sessions last Spring, 2 in the Fall, and now another one. And if I have learned anything from all of them it is that we are playing $70 for him to run in circles, playing with mud and picking up rocks. There is still very little interest in the actual act of playing soccer, although a lot of interest in talking about how he wants to play soccer.So, when I signed him up for t-ball I wasn't sure how it would go. We have a...
It's all about amphibians and reptiles!
From de kooijtjes, 1 month ago, Similar articles
I was really nervous about picking Maarten up from school. All the teachers were looking at me with pity and the children were shouting over one another that Maarten knocked out his front teeth. And then Maarten walked out of his classroom grinning from ear to ear. That afternoon I was horrified by my imagination how would he look like without the teeth but seeing his happiness shining through his toothless mouth I could only sigh with relief.I could see he was enjoying tremendously all the...
First Fuji
From Gaijin Mama, 1 month ago, Similar articles
Nothing quite says Japan like Mt. Fuji. In fact, one of my earliest and most enduring images of the country was a photo in the World Book encyclopedia of the Shinkansen  speeding past the iconic peak. Mt. Fuji, with its distinctive gentle, asymmetrical slopes and its cone-shaped top, has inspired poetry and prose, art, a religion, and at least one pop song (?Funk Fujiyama' as sung by the popular mid-1990s group Kome Kome Club). The renowned woodblock artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)...
