(Via washingtonpost.com - A Cook's Garden by Barbara Damrosch)

Posted by admin to Down, Gardening, Isn't, Lost, Translation, Under,, in on 2007-04-11, 20:00:00

Foreign travel is said to broaden one's horizons, but Australia turns it around backward. Let's start with the sun. There it still rises in the east and sets in the west, but it traverses the northern sky instead of the southern, moving from right to left. At night the moon's crescent turns the opposite way, and Orion is upside down. If you leave home in spring, as I did on a recent lecture trip, you arrive in fall, two calendar days later.

(Via washingtonpost.com - A Cook's Garden by Barbara Damrosch)

Posted by admin to Dirt, Just, The, Under,, Wonders on 2006-12-06, 21:00:00

Do children still make mud pies? Or have the drama and mystery of sci-fi stories and space shuttle launches turned their gaze permanently skyward? Any of them can name the planets in the solar system, but how many know what magnificent and invisible worlds lie beneath the surface of the soil? It's there that the most numerous of the Earth's creatures are to be found, many of them as alien to us as the hypothetical residents of remote galaxies that so engage our imaginations.