Beautiful lantern

Beautiful lantern

Whether floating across the night sky in the hundreds, drifting gently across the water, hanging from summer trees, draped on temples to ring in the…

Blue ocean waves flowing gently

Blue ocean waves flowing gently

The most common type of marine bioluminescence is generated by phytoplankton known as dinoflagellates. A recent study co-authored by Hastings has for the first time…

Lovely red

Lovely red

Famous red rose of long stems, naturally without spines and owner of a huge button with velvety petals. Of indisputable quality this variety adapted perfectly…

A Vision of Beauty

A Vision of Beauty

I have been asked tonight to talk about a Christian vision of beauty, and I am first struck by the fact that this conversation would…

Earth Laughs in Flowers

Earth Laughs in Flowers

Though it’s often been attributed to e.e. cummings, it actually appears in Hamatreya, by Ralph Waldo Emerson. A slight misquote, its meaning taken out of…

Life Began in a Garden

Life Began in a Garden

Anyone who thinks that gardening begins in the spring and ends in the fall is missing the best part of the whole year. For gardening…

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

A French fairy tale about a beautiful and gentle young woman who is taken to live with a man-beast in return for a good deed…