Monday, November 27, 2017

SICILY PHOTO ALBUM: Guest Post by Steve Scheaffer and Karen Neely

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SICILY: Palermo, Italy, looking toward Monreale My brother Steve and his wife Karen toured Sicily in September 2017, traveling to Palerm...
Monday, November 20, 2017

CANADA’S BAY OF FUNDY: Watch a Tidal Bore Crawl Up a River, Guest Post by Caroline Hatton

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Bay of Fundy: Tidal Bore on the Salmon River near Truro, Nova Scotia My friend and fellow children’s book author Caroline Hatton vi...
Monday, November 13, 2017

CANADA’S BAY OF FUNDY: About a Hole that Disappeared, Guest Post by Caroline Hatton

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Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia. The Hole in Long Island as it appeared in 2014 My friend and fellow children’s book author Caroline...
Monday, November 6, 2017

EUREKA, CALIFORNIA: The Heart of Humboldt County

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Bald Eagle at the Sequoia Park Zoo, Eureka, CA.  Every two years in October, I go to Eureka, California , in Humboldt County, for a chil...
Monday, October 30, 2017

KYOTO, JAPAN: A Day of Leisure, from the Memoir of Aunt Carolyn

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Vegetable stall, Japanese market My husband's Aunt, Carolyn T. Arnold, traveled to Japan in the 1960's and 70's as the lea...
Monday, October 23, 2017

BOWERS MUSEUM, Santa Ana, CA: 100 Years Ago, Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition and Frank Hurley's Amazing Photos

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Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana, California One hundred years ago, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition came to an end ...
Monday, October 16, 2017

ICELAND: Waterfalls, Geysers, and Hot Springs, Guest Post by Tom Scheaffer

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Gullfoss Waterfall, Iceland My brother Tom Scheaffer has just returned from a two week trip to Iceland and the Faroe Islands. Tom’s tri...