The Portland, a steam towboat, was used in the mid 20th century to dock, turn and assist ships through the Willamette River’s narrow channels. She was retired in the early 1980s when more efficient diesel engined boats took her place….
Ancient bathers share the beach with modern visitors at Pu’uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park on the Big Island of Hawaii. The park is a bit south of Kona, on the west side of the island, and on the way to Volcano National Park….
I lived in Spokane for almost seven years. I love the region, a beautiful forested hilly area between the great mountains of the Cascades to the West and the Rockies to the East. The Spokane River runs through the heart of the city,…
I remember my delight in making soap bubbles as a small boy! My mother would mix the soapy solution and I’d take my little wand and run outside, blowing and watching the little bubbles drift away (before they popped). So it appealed…
Two of Brussels’ most famous obsessions—chocolate and the famous Maneken-Pis stature of a small boy urinating—are caught in one picture of a chocolate shop featuring endless sizes and flavors of the statue.
Looking remarkably like grass, this is actually a field of sugar cane. What’s lacking is a size perspective because these canes are about 3 meter(10 ft) tall. The central region of Maui, between the two large volcanoes of that…
The Inca people of South America’s Andes mountains were remarkable engineers. Unlike Europeans, who used mortar to bond together large walls of brick or rock, Incas carefully shaped and chiseled stones so that they fit together perfectly!
Sunflowers are happy things! Like the gentle quacking of ducks or the gurgle of a small creek down a mountain, they make me smile. I’m not sure if they’re called sunflowers because they look a little like the sun or whether it’s…
Cruise ship is dwarfed by steep mountains as it enters Norway’s Naeroyfjord, an arm of the Sognefjord in the rugged coastal mountains north of Bergen. A network of these deep waterways connects scattered areas of small towns and farms on…
Not much survives of old Cologne anymore. The city, which had (and still has) a heavy industrial base was almost completely flattened during Allied bombing runs in the Second World War. But its remarkable Cathedral survived, and so…
The Portland, a steam towboat, was used in the mid 20th century to dock, turn and assist ships through the Willamette River’s narrow channels. She was retired in the early 1980s when more efficient diesel engined boats took her place….
Ancient bathers share the beach with modern visitors at Pu’uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park on the Big Island of Hawaii. The park is a bit south of Kona, on the west side of the island, and on the way to Volcano National Park….
I lived in Spokane for almost seven years. I love the region, a beautiful forested hilly area between the great mountains of the Cascades to the West and the Rockies to the East. The Spokane River runs through the heart of the city,…
I remember my delight in making soap bubbles as a small boy! My mother would mix the soapy solution and I’d take my little wand and run outside, blowing and watching the little bubbles drift away (before they popped). So it appealed…
Two of Brussels’ most famous obsessions—chocolate and the famous Maneken-Pis stature of a small boy urinating—are caught in one picture of a chocolate shop featuring endless sizes and flavors of the statue.
Looking remarkably like grass, this is actually a field of sugar cane. What’s lacking is a size perspective because these canes are about 3 meter(10 ft) tall. The central region of Maui, between the two large volcanoes of that…
The Inca people of South America’s Andes mountains were remarkable engineers. Unlike Europeans, who used mortar to bond together large walls of brick or rock, Incas carefully shaped and chiseled stones so that they fit together perfectly!
Sunflowers are happy things! Like the gentle quacking of ducks or the gurgle of a small creek down a mountain, they make me smile. I’m not sure if they’re called sunflowers because they look a little like the sun or whether it’s…
Cruise ship is dwarfed by steep mountains as it enters Norway’s Naeroyfjord, an arm of the Sognefjord in the rugged coastal mountains north of Bergen. A network of these deep waterways connects scattered areas of small towns and farms on…
Not much survives of old Cologne anymore. The city, which had (and still has) a heavy industrial base was almost completely flattened during Allied bombing runs in the Second World War. But its remarkable Cathedral survived, and so…
