I had a request to show some of the flowers we put in this year. Quite a few of the flowers have gone by but we still have some late bloomers. This is an overview of the pond. There are two waterfalls, one at the north end of the pond and another separating the sump

I haven’t blogged in quite a while. Usually by this time of year I have upward of twenty thousand pictures. It has been a slow year and I probably only have about a thousand pictures so far. I have started three blogs but never finished them. It is difficult to restart blogging after a long

In the Old Kingdom of Egypt (c. 2686–2181 BC), boats were the primary mode of transport for commerce, religion, and the afterlife.  Primary Types of Vessels The Old Kingdom did not have a Navy. As a result, the boats were mainly of civilian use. Khufu Solar Barge “Khufu’s Boats The funerary complex of the Great Pyramid of

We boarded some smaller boats for a Nile River cruise up to the Aswan Dam. We went past the Aswan Botanical Garden but did not stop. This was the only portion of the cruise where having a full size camera was desirable. We elected not to carry them along for just this segment of our

We went on a two week Nile Cruise three weeks after our Greek cruise that included our trip to Troy. We scheduled the trip to attend the first general admission day at the GEM; Grand Egyptian Museum. I wasn’t as prepared for this trip as well as I would like. I only peripherally encountered Egyptian

I thought this was going to be a hard blog to do. We went on a cruise to Greece and Turkey that included a tour of the archeologic site of Troy, the city made famous by Homer in the Iliad. The site was known to the Classical Greeks because Alexander the Great stopped at the

We went on a two week trip to Egypt. One of the highlights was a balloon ride over the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. These were the burial grounds of the Pharoahs of the New Kingdom period; 1550 to 1060 BCE. These were the 18th through the 20th dynasties. This period was considered

It is time to roll back the clocks. The migratory birds have abandoned their nests and headed South. We have the pasture mowed and the tree leaves partially mulched into the yard. In the ZEN space, the offering has been gratefully accepted by the inhabitants of the yard. Try as we might, we do occasionally

We went kayaking yesterday. It was a little past peak colors. The weather was pleasant at about sixty degrees, partly to mostly cloudy with a ten mile per hour wing gusting to fifteen. It was warm enough in the sun but a little cool in the shade and wind. We went on the Lamprey River

This all came about because the kids said I needed to find my buddha like nature. We were sitting at dinner when I suggested I would like a meditation station within listening distance of the pond. I sketched on a napkin what I had in mind. It was somewhat similar to the top of a