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The Beautiful Lady at the Haunted Gardens of the El Greco House and Museum in Toledo Spain
El Greco life and works assume an amenability to biography, film and historical fiction.
How difficult could it be to collect everything conjectured, hypothesized, known about why such a beautiful young lady concerns herself with the gardens ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/03/2024
The Gardens of Venice and the Veneto by Jenny Condie and Alex Ramsay
My second subheading acclaims plants abide-able in Venice.
Venetian gardens, for example, can cultivate such edibles as apples, artichokes, beans, cabbage, cherries, chestnuts, citrus, figs, hickories, lemons, limes, mulberries, olives, onions, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/03/2024
Electric Car Ownership, Air Pollution, Environmental and Public Health
The answer to the last-line question in the comment box immediately below, from Oct. 31, 2024, is Scotland!
Is it a surprise that Scotland inspires a number of interesting iterations of electric vehicles some 150-plus years after their ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/03/2024
Common Ringtail Possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus) of Australia's Eastern Coasts and Islands
Ringtail possums appear as so amenable to their counterpart articulation as plush toys.
In a home or museum -- children and/or grown-up ;-D -- setting, I imagine them in a learning-friendly setting of their favorite drinkable and edible sources ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/03/2024
Loch Ness
Ships try to avoid storms and we have a very good meteorological service. So . But storms are not always avoidable.
frankbeswick, on 12/03/2024
Touring North Wales
They ate the puffins eggs, leading to their extinction on the isle,
frankbeswick, on 12/03/2024
Touring North Wales
Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous, same-day observation and question.
The second paragraph to the second subheading, Anglesey, alerts us to the fact that "Puffin Island was once home to a thriving puffin colony, which ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/02/2024
Loch Ness
Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous, same-day observation and question.
Are water, weather and wind forecasts such that those who aim the larger ships around northern-tipped Britain alter schedules according to storm-less ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/02/2024
Touring North Wales
Yes. There have been drownings
frankbeswick, on 12/02/2024
Loch Ness
All ships 23r3 vulnerable to wrecking, but ec9nomics and geography 0revented a wider canal tr9m being built
frankbeswick, on 12/02/2024
Midsummer, and a Damson in Distress
Def8nitely a plus. It is flavoursome
frankbeswick, on 12/02/2024
My Garden World: a Review
True over here as well
frankbeswick, on 12/02/2024
My Garden World: a Review
Thank you for your comment below, on Feb. 15, 2024, in answer to my previous, same-day observation and question.
The day before yesterday and yesterday I did fall-ending, winter-beginning lawn and yard work. My bluebird and my ovenbird gave me ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/02/2024
Midsummer, and a Damson in Distress
Your comment below, in the second box down, on Feb. 3, 2016, intrigues me with its conclusion that "It is worth noting that in Cumbria, north of me, damsons are sometimes used by one brewer as an ale flavouring in place of hops."
Is the damson ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/02/2024
Loch Ness
Thank you for your comment below, on Mar 9, 2024, in answer to my previous, same-day observation and question.
The first paragraph to the first subheading, The Nature of thePlace, advises us that "The Great Glen, known in Gaelic as An Glen Mor, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 12/02/2024