… is how Wikipedia describes Bougainvilleas. This one in Therma, on the Greek island of Ikaria, clearly is not in the Bonsai category. The house has been abandoned, but I believe this happened before the Bougainvillea took over.
Many people know Grant Wood only for a single iconic painting, but a museum visit paints a different picture
A visit to London’s Canal Museum led Paul Heymont down a rabbit hole, or rather an ice well
A man harvests barnacles from the shores of the Atlantic Ocean in Essaouira, Morocco
This photo from northern Idaho shows layers upon layers of trees and terrain, and sky.
Samantha shares some pictures of the huge Van Gogh Sunflower eastel in Goodland, Kansas. It’s part of the Big Easel Project.
The impressive array of cakes and pastries on display at a traditional café in Wiesbaden, Germany.
This post from Professorabe looks at efforts to preserve a piece of the industrial history of ‘Copperopolis’ – aka Swansea in South Wales.
After a very wet start to 2026 here in Wales, many of the camellias in our garden have burst into
