Prairie Dogs – In A Colorado Minute (Week 203)
Prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) can be found all over the North America’s prairie and grasslands, including right here in Fort Collins, Colorado. Considered a disease-carrying pest by most locals and an easy to…
Park Slope (NYC Neighborhood) – In A Brooklyn Minute (Week 114)
Park Slope is the gorgeous Brooklyn neighborhood I’m lucky to call home. It’s beautiful at any time of year, but summer is especially nice when the trees and flowers add color. It features luscious…
10 Brooklyn Facts – In A Brooklyn Minute (Week 92)
Ten Brooklyn facts – interesting, odd, fun, historic and even surprising. Some of the facts are reasons why I love the borough of Brooklyn so much – and why some of us when…
Ghost Town Carr – In A Colorado Minute (Week 186)
In my search for abandoned buildings (a personal passion) in Colorado, I came across a listing of ghost towns in Colorado… and found out that there supposedly was a ghost town just north…
National 9/11 Memorial – In A Brooklyn Minute (Week 80)
The National 9/11 Memorial at the site of the World Trade Center in New York encompasses the footprints of the two towers turned into cascading waterfalls and surrounded by bronze parapets featuring the names of the…
My Mother’s Flower Garden – In Another Minute (Week 169)
To me this may just be the most beautiful place in the world: my mother’s flower garden (Der Blumengarten meiner Mutter) in the Haseldorfer Marsch (seen in week 19), just outside of Hamburg….
Street Art 2010 – In A Berlin Minute (Week 18)
I love the street art in Berlin – graffiti, murals, stencils, slogans, stickers, poster-sized prints and my favorites: prints that have been cut out to match the shape of the image – especially…
Tour de Fat (Fort Collins) – In A Colorado Minute (Week 226)
Tour de Fat is a traveling celebration of “beer, bikes and bemusement” organized by the employee-owned Fort Collins brewery New Belgium and taking place in almost a dozen cities around the USA throughout…
