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The Rowan or Mountain Ash (also known as Quickbeam and Rowan Berry) is, intriguingly, a member of the Rose family along with Hawthorns, the Whitebeam and the Service Tree. Most fruit trees and shrubs are also in the Rose family, close enough that there...

Oxbow (Tetons, Wyoming) by Mikeal Dixon (Photo site here) More below the fold The Moss Carpet (Romania) by Adrian Borda (Facebook page here) Fields of Tuscany (Italy) by Tiziano Pieroni Winterscape (Poland) by Marek Marszalek (Facebook page here...

Political Revolt and the Accumulation of More:  Crowd Control By Lewis H. Lapham TomDispatch March 16, 2014 [This essay will appear in "Revolution," the Spring 2014 issue of Lapham's Quarterly. This slightly adapted version is posted at...

Sunrise…the dawn of a new day. The world is too much with us, and we are too much with ourselves. We need sometimes to escape into the vast solitudes, into aimlessness, into the narrow vacuum of running without constraints, in order to taste hardship...

As you probably know very well by now I’m a huge enthusiast of Central Europe. I believe it’s the most beautiful area ever, rich in culture, with a fascinating history and diverse architecture. And still so undiscovered! Every time I travel around I...