First Bear of the Season
We encounter a beautiful male black bear with a plaintive look on his face in Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Serengeti Speke’s Weavers
We encounter a tree full of Speke’s Weavers – a very interesting songbird of East Africa.
Sunset on the Maasai Mara
Doug reflects on a beautiful sunset on the Maasai Mara of Kenya
Serengeti Serpent
We find an African rock python coiled in the acacia tree under which we are having a picnic.
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Most of my recent blog entries are about the new and exciting things that Marcy and I encounter on our travels. I have been so very busy lately and have found it difficult to create a blog entry and despite dozens of drafts about far-away places and interesting scenes, I settled on writing about the […]
Montmartre and the Head of Saint Denis
A cephalophore (from the Greek for “head-carrier”) is a saint who is generally depicted carrying their own severed head. Saint Denis of Paris is the most famous of these.
