• Summer Solstice 2021

    Summer Solstice Sunset of the longest day Happy Summer Solstice, everyone! Summer Solstice 2021

  • Haiku – Choreographing Happiness!

    Triple haiku for Eugi’s weekly prompt – Happiness Federica Guisti@unsplash.com Sound of music plays  happy feet waltz in rhythm spirited connect ****… Haiku – Choreographing Happiness!

  • Zoom Towns — Where Tourists Never Leave

    “There’s another population of people who came and never left: those freed by COVID from cubicles and work commutes.” Zoom Towns — Where Tourists Never Leave

  • Nelly the Elephant Packed Her Trunk … and Went on the Run

    Campaigners want circus elephants placed in specially built sanctuaries. But their owners insist being separated from their human “families” would be… Nelly the Elephant Packed Her Trunk … and Went on the Run

  • Illegal Fishing Is Devastating Kenya’s Sea Turtles

    An alarming number of sea turtles have died over the past year in Marereni, on the central Kenyan coast, raising concerns among conservationists, … Illegal Fishing Is Devastating Kenya’s Sea Turtles

  • Hope Springs Eternal

      Given the current pandemic all of us are having to deal with new realities, restrictions, finding new ways to cope. It’s tough, for some tougher than for others. But when you think about it there is one thing that drives us forward. And one word says it all – HOPE.  Hope. It’s what makes…

  • The Splendour Of A Tuscan Holiday

    The entrance to the place was out-of-this-world, a long, winding drive on one of those old country roads and on each side glorious Cypress trees, iconic Tuscan landmarks, as far as the eye could see. What an experience. What a start to a most excellent adventure. The farmhouse, our little place in paradise, the starting-off…