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Murano Glass Christmas Ornaments

blackspanielgallery, Thank you for the practicalities and products. Are the globe and other shaped ornaments the only ones for hanging? It looks from the images that the other ornaments are for mantle, shelf, table display.

DerdriuMarriner, on 09/21/2019

Odessey from Urban Wonders to Wild Ranthambore

An interesting view of a place I have not seen. Excellent photographs.

blackspanielgallery, on 09/20/2019

The Coming of the Cows: a Tirolean Tradition

Thanks Derdriu, I did not know of Basque traditions in South West USA. Decorations don't impede vision. Cattle wear bell collars throughout the year, but selected ones wear an ornamental wreath around the head and neck as well.

frankbeswick, on 09/19/2019

Fight Pollution Indoors with Air Purifying House Plants

WriterArtist, Thank you for the practical information and, especially from Costa Farms, the product lines. Is your beautiful sansevieria healthy from direct or reflected light? Isn't it wonderful the way houseplants can do indoors what trees do ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 09/19/2019

The Coming of the Cows: a Tirolean Tradition

frankbeswick, Thank you for the photographs, practicalities and products related to you and your wife's celebration in northern Italy of her retirement from teaching. Transhumance-related celebrations are an enduring, photogenic part of Basque ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 09/19/2019

Undine from Fairy Tale to Star Trek

Thanks, DerdriuMarriner, for your additional info. Red heads truly have very special status in history.

Tolovaj, on 09/19/2019

Walking in the Dolomites

Generally land in Britain lessens in fertility and becomes moorland shortly after 1000 feet above sea level.Much of the decline is due to excessive rainfall, which produces leached and acid moor soils.Southern England [excepting parts of ...

frankbeswick, on 09/17/2019

Fight Pollution Indoors with Air Purifying House Plants

Radon does not need a source from man, it occurs naturally as heavy elements break down. Since it is a gas it creeps upward, and can even pass through bedrock into home foundations where houses are right on rocks. Here, it is not a problem ...

blackspanielgallery, on 09/17/2019

Collectible Beer Steins

I believe most can also be used,

blackspanielgallery, on 09/17/2019

Walking in the Dolomites

frankbeswick, Thank you for the photos, practicalities and products. You begin with the intriguing observation that "As one used to the northerly latitudes of Britain I noticed how fertile the land was at heights well above the highest point in ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 09/17/2019

A Day at the Poynton Show

I said towards the end of the article that my ability to lift and carry show items was limited and that the society had forbidden me from lifting, but today I got good news from the medics. Yes there is a medical problem, but it is curable with ...

frankbeswick, on 09/17/2019

The Haunted Hill Fort: Chanctonbury Ring

Interesting that you said this, for Brother Raoul, writing in Deeper Into God, meditated at various sites in the Lynn Peninsula in Wales and found that places where monks and others had prayed seemed to aid his prayer. There were places that ...

frankbeswick, on 09/17/2019

Fight Pollution Indoors with Air Purifying House Plants

@ blackspanielgallery - Your reasoning is logical. A plant that absorbs poisonous gas may become poisonous due to the inherent reason of absorbing poison. Although the VOC are broken, most of these plants are poisonous in nature. Man-made ...

WriterArtist, on 09/17/2019

The Haunted Hill Fort: Chanctonbury Ring

Places that are haunted could be where the evil was committed. Therefore, the vibes and experiences incurred to many people who wandered there intentionally or unintentionally is painful and torturous. I have been to places where monks ...

WriterArtist, on 09/17/2019

Fight Pollution Indoors with Air Purifying House Plants

I have heard of absorption of carbon dioxide and the release of oxygen. If other substances are absorbed they, or their elements from which they are made, must show up as part of the absorbing plant, or be released back as oxygen is. This ...

blackspanielgallery, on 09/16/2019