Hope springs?

Instructions for visitors
Perpignan railway station
Cafe de la Gare
Feria
Mairie
Canigou
cathar castles
Buddleia

Barbara Kingsolver

Animal Dreams
Semilla besada

Healing

Kitchen table wisdom
primary intention
Immune system imagery
Spores
Johnny Appleseed
Shiva
Prayer wheel
Holmes-Rahe Stress Index
Ileostomy
Pelargonium
Enterostomal

Shells

The Gift of Sea
Whelk
Channeled Whelk
Moon shell
Double sunrise shell
book on npr
Cats cradle yarn game

Kenneth Kamler

Surviving the extremes
Cofan Indians
caiman alligator

lidocaine
Epineurium
Termitophiles - tiny insects hat live within termite colonies.
Febris
Heliconia
Achiote
snake venom variety - nerve poison, poison blood

Lake culture

Kettle Lakes
Limnology

Another Everest tale

Kingdoms of Experience
Muztagh tower
trango towers
Tom Patey
Nuptse
Lancastrian
Fell running
Slocht
Clachaig
Willi Unsoeld
Squaddies - soldiers slang.

Milosz prose

The captive Mind
Husserl
Witkiewicz

Some cool things to do in nature

From The Bumper Book of Nature
Make a bark rubbing on a paper
sit/stand still for an hour and notice sounds
Record tree sounds in hollows
Blind walk in the woods
While keeping bird records in your nature diary - Date, Location, Time of sighting/time spent in the field, who you were with, weather conditions, names of species, any interesting or unusual behavior, memorable moments.

I was looking at Yellowstone trip pictures and found 2 rainbows in it and noticed that in the other the colors were reversed and 'count the colors of a rainbow' section confirms this.

Telling direction with a watch.

Poetry Feb 2010

Duns Grunbein
Modern day Rilke

Iceberg view of a young Weddell seal

Oceans
What a point it would be to stand away from earth and take alook at it, like the oceanographer and the child.
Blanket Octopus.
Marine Iguanas. A closeup shot. The patterns on its mouth like stiches in a row, cubes and then hexagons as you move up. The eye is like a far view of the cosmos. A picture of one going up with its forelimbs against the body and hind limbs like an outstretched frog's, like a ninja. It looks in peace.

Lion man

Part of the Pride
Paddatjie, my colleague tells me is pronounced as padykie and is a little frog. Padda is a frog. I overheard that Afrikaans is a language just a few months ago at a birthday party. He says that it is very similar to Dutch.
Kudu
Eternal enemies documentary. Lions and hyenas, one preying the young of the other.
White eye

Likeable Experimenter

Carrying the heart
Lazzaro Spallanzani

Why are unicorns always under attack?

The Natural History of Unicorns

Ctesias
Chiru
Kiang
Verteuil Tapestries
Khutu
Takin
Unbelievable SDZoo
okapi
Rishyasringa
While most animals have horns on their heads, tusks grow downwards. If man had some strong weapon like those sharp things, how different would our evolutionary path have been?

When things breakdown

Medical Mysteries
Tree Man from Indonesia makes us appreciate our functional immune system.
TMAU