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Since medieval times European farmers have pollarded their trees. That means cut all the branches off and leave stubs. They harvested tops of their trees for fodder and for the wood. The tree looks nude and if one can give it a human emotion, forlorn. Sounds terrible but come the spring the…
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They don’t call them starfish anymore. They are sea stars now but whatever you call them there is hardly anyone who can see one without smiling and pointing. …
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We rarely think about stairs. We run up and down them and pay little attention to them. But when we encounter a stone staircase in a 12th century building we do stop to notice how different they are from the ones we are used to seeing. The staircase in the picture is…
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One of the things that’s the most fun to do in foreign countries is experiment with food. Most of us will try things we’d likely only raise an eyebrow to at home. In most of America we have a limited amount of different kinds of sausage. You’ve got hot and mild, breakfast and…
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Where's Laine? I don't know. Maybe she's hungry. Did you say Hungary? No, I said hungry. Oh. Why? I don't know! Laine's Blog will be shaken and stirred for the next couple of weeks, with some help from guest blogger, Sue Harrison and…
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I am a little jealous of the bees. They get their tiny bellies rubbed by the softest of flower petals. I wish I could do that! Related articles Bees spot best flowers from afar based on petal colour Flowers Aren't Always Beautiful…
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Christopher Robin and Pooh are walking through the hundred acre wood, just before Christopher has to start school. This is the conversation that we hear… Pooh, what do you like doing best in the world? What I like best, is me going to visit you and you saying, 'How about a…
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It turns out that keeping company with 300 year old Oak Trees is good medicine. Something about the grandeur, and the quietness, and the solid grounded feelings that they emote. How many lives have passed this way? How many storms? How much sunshine and moonshine and happy voices and sad voices? …
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It's not too shabby when you have finally stopped sabatoging your own happiness and joy. Silver linings everywhere. Matanzas Inlet, St. Augustine Florida.
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How do you sweeten your life? Chocolate? Long walks on the beach? Time spent with friends? Fragrant flowers? It's a good day for some sweetness! (You can almost smell the plumeria!) Reprinted from LainesBlog, August 2012
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