Subhead news India still seduces me! I have swings of fascination and repulsion there like nowhere else. India is secular, spiritual, powerful and profane. She slams your senses with breathtaking art, architecture, temples, textiles and jewels in Bollywood colors and gorgeous people. Then you are suddenly inches from heartbreak when desperately poor women tap on…
We humans! It seems we aren’t content to merely live in our accustomed habitats, we want to explore other realms that require invention of gear and equipment to allow us to be in deep space, speeding down a snowy mountain or going deep under the water to witness that kingdom. What an amazing time to…
This past Spring I planted several milkweed bushes. In order for a caterpillar to morph into a butterfly, he can be found night and day munching those leaves. I kept checking the bushes, looking for them and one day they were loaded with striped caterpillars, destined to become Monarch butterflies. There’s a lot of info…