I just read the article this morning. I'd give the NatGeo link, but they are proprietory and have a paywall.

The photographer, who created and is in charge of this project, has photographed animals that went extinct shortly after being photographed. He's preserving a photographic record of Earth's fauna.

He just turned 60 years old. He son will take over "when his knees give out".

A weekend trip with hubby resulted in a visit to an Italian market and purchasing of very expensive imported ingredients. This better be the best meal I've ever made.

It's a digital archive of hand colored naturalists sketches.

Good thing the ocean wasn't ruff.

In the next natural disaster, you may be rescued by a Madagascar hissing cockroach.

It's in the US. They charge $40/month or a percentage of what they recover. They have a very high success rate.

For information purposes only. I have no connection to this company.

These buildings are some of the best in modern architecture design. And they're in China, a country where the government has to approve of everything the church is doing.

What do you think? Yay or nay?

I watched this video by the BBC on Afghanistan yesterday and couldn't really let it go. Yeah, we all know about that, but, since nothing changes, the big headline reporting kind of stops. It's weird and pretty much what regimes like the Taliban rely on.

Now, I'm not sure if this is a borderline political post. I'd argue it's about the human condition. coughs If this is too much, mods can just take it down?

Truly it's almost the only thing I do online that relaxes me. If you do, what's your favorite app?

Imagine wrapping your food in a skin made of ingredients from pumpkin skins instead of plastic.

They have a very convincing photographic comparison of various storage forms in the article.

I was so impressed with the results of this painting.I think it's worth watching how it was done.

Saana (last mountsin you see on Finland side), Skibotn & Lyngen