Flares into Darkness

My heart leaps up -- William Wordsworth The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural...

The above video is an old cowboy sitting in a field in the late afternoon, smoking a cigar and telling stories about smoking cigars. His st...

Get ready for an acidic weekend with Fools Garden.  

Ancient Egyptian wall carving of stalks of wheat Below is an excerpt from an old post of mine,  The staff of life . It was discussing wheat ...

Click any image to enlarge Cigarette companies used to include trading cards with their packages. These samples, and a few from a chocolate ...

This is a long video, but a very good one. It is film from a 4 masted barque  the Peking rounding Cape Horn in 1928. It was filmed by  Irvi...

Get ready for a sub-epidermis weekend with Ben l'Oncle Soul.  

Click any image to enlarge Jean-François Millet was a 19th century...

In my post  On a fuel boat in an English canal I was interested in the rather simple means used to operate the locks in the canals. The ab...

Get ready for a dyadic weekend with Adikara Fardy.  

I forgot I even had this video bookmarked. I had been holding it in reserve in case I ever got desperate for a TGIF music video. I have no i...

I never knew about the narrowboats on the English channels. Interesting lifestyle. I also found the simplicity of the locks to be interest...

Ukrainian soldiers patrol the Yasynuvata district of Ukraine’s Donetsk region (Andriy Andriyenko/Associated Press)   A Snowy Morning - Shin ...

Get ready for a negatory weekend with Max & Nicky.  

Today we tour a harmonica factory in South Korea. Harmonica building is more complex than you might first think. It's a precise process...

Click any image to enlarge From the Holodomor Monument and Museum, Mariyinsky Park, Kiev, Kiev Region, Ukraine, Eastern Europe. "While...

Get ready for a parting weekend with The Horse Puppets.  

Click any image to enlarge One of the great engineering achievements of the 19th Century was the laying of the tans-Atlantic telegraph cable...

It used to be Washington's Birthday, but then it morphed into the amorphic President's Day. So, now we honor all Presidents, even th...

This is the Ggabba Landing fish market in Kampala, Uganda on the shores of Lake Victoria. The videographer orders a fish fried over an open...