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Tenerife Dragon Tree: A Woody Plant of Ancient Lineage Becomes the Canary Islands' Icon
The comment boxes Dec. 3 and 14, 2024, advise us of world-garden models.
It can be so educational, so memory-retentive to connect garden displays and models with drinkable, edible takeaways.
The comment box immediately below on Dec. 14, 2024, ...
DerdriuMarriner, 1 day ago
Hope: a review
I do not know the details, but white smoke comes from urning the ballot papers, but the black smoke comes from mixing a contaminant with the papers. What it is I know not.
frankbeswick, 1 day ago
Socotra Frankincense Tree (Boswellia socotrana): Island of the Phoenix and Its Vulnerable Incense
The island Socotra amazes me and appeals to me so much that I appreciate it as a biogeography-, mineral and natural resource-rich area whose woody plants particularly attract me.
The tree attraction directs me to Christmas and Epiphany, to the ...
DerdriuMarriner, 1 day ago
How Should We Respond to Islam?
You have given me a challenging question. Thank you. You would need to consult with one well versed in the care of souls to answer this, but .I am not such a person. So I entrust this sad person to the care and mercy of God. The woman seems to ...
frankbeswick, 1 day ago
Electric Car Ownership, Air Pollution, Environmental and Public Health
For those asking the most popular electric car sold in the U.S. in 2024:
Tesla Model Y qualified as number one in sales, according to EV enthusiast, investor and financial writer Peter Johnson in "Here are the top 10 best-selling EVs in the US ...
DerdriuMarriner, 1 day ago
How Should We Respond to Islam?
A Catholic woman married a Jewish man who placed Jewish conversion as prequel to their marriage.
As a married couple, they presented their two children with both faiths until confirmation age. Both children realized Jewish conversions.
The ...
DerdriuMarriner, 1 day ago
Hope: a review
Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.
The Jorge Bergoglio papacy as Pope Francis came as a delightful surprise because -- as I've commented elsewhere -- of the Basque saying about an African, a ...
DerdriuMarriner, 1 day ago
How Should We Respond to Islam?
The church exists for forgiveness. Anyone can return.
frankbeswick, 2 days ago
Vintage Postcard Artists with 10 Examples of Easter Cards
I don't think Nazism has anything to do with her success. Brundage wasn't accepted in the USA because publishers preferred Clapsaddle (with way more stronger connections in Germany) and Humphrey, both already neing established as trademarks. ...
Tolovaj, 2 days ago
Vintage Postcard Artists with 10 Examples of Easter Cards
Not really. Jenny Nystrom is best known by her dwarfs, but I decided to use her Easter witches because they are so different than other 'usual' designs. Otherwise, Nystrom's work doesn't differ so much. If I would have to point at one artist ...
Tolovaj, 2 days ago
Parfrey's Glen in Wisconsin: a Creek, a Gorge, and a Waterfall, and Their Unique Fauna and Flora
The computer crashed before I could conclude the component commenced below concerning my previous observation and question.
Today is the last day of the February month invoking crepes and pancakes.
So one might munch on crepes and pancakes ...
DerdriuMarriner, 2 days ago
Socotra Frankincense Tree (Boswellia socotrana): Island of the Phoenix and Its Vulnerable Incense
The computer crashed before I communicated another component of my observation and question in the box immediately below.
Socotran island vegetation encompasses the myrrh-enabling spiny shrubs and small trees scientifically expressed as ...
DerdriuMarriner, 2 days ago
The Beautiful Lady at the Haunted Gardens of the El Greco House and Museum in Toledo Spain
Along the right side and also at the bottom of this wizzley access my article Two Ghosts Who Haunt the Royal Botanical Garden Across From the Westin Hotel Palace in Madrid, Spain.
Online sources add the Madrid and the Toledo distances from one ...
DerdriuMarriner, 2 days ago
Wisconsin's Natural Bridge State Park: Arch, Rockshelter, Shade-Tolerant Flora of Medicinal Interest
The computer crashed before I conveyed another component of my observation and question in the comment box immediately below this current one.
Some such plant species as among those in Natural Bridge State Park -- blackberries (Rubus ...
DerdriuMarriner, 2 days ago
How Should We Respond to Islam?
Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.
That someone who converts to another religion can be in a Church-consecrated cemetery by coming back into the Church prior to death catches my attention.
Does ...
DerdriuMarriner, 2 days ago