German American New Years Eve – Silvester 2012 – In A Brooklyn Minute (Week 88)
What is a German American New Years Eve? Come, take a look… Every New Year’s Eve that we are in Brooklyn, we follow certain traditions – collecting a few new ones as they…
Amaryllis Time Lapse – In A Colorado Minute (Week 193)
Every winter, I get an amaryllis bulb to watch the plant grow and open its blooms to fill the winter days with brightness and remind me that spring is coming and the new…
Swetsville Zoo – In A Colorado Minute (Week 194)
American Roadside Attractions – something about them is quite mystical. They evoke the image of America as an adventure land without borders, crisscrossed by long highways, strewn with fascinating characters on and off…
Ilha Grande + Paraty (Brazil) – In Another Minute (Week 148)
Ahhh, Costa Verde – the green coast mostly in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. Not sure if I have the words to describe how special my time and experience were on the island…
Lory State Park (Part 1) – In A Colorado Minute (Week 195)
Lory State Park is the state park closest to Fort Collins, running along the west side of Horsetooth Reservoir. Its diverse landscape offers rolling hills and meadows, dramatic rock cliffs, reservoir beaches, evergreen…
Horsetooth Reservoir (Throughout The Year) – In A Colorado Minute (Week 215)
Horsetooth Reservoir on the west side of Ft. Collins, Colorado, is beautiful at any time of the year. Not counting two short visits in the early 2000s, it’s been almost exactly a year…
Flushing Meadows World’s Fair (Queens) – In A Brooklyn Minute (Week 90)
Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens hosted the World Fair in 1939/40 and 1964/65 and still features several iconic and slightly extraterrestrial seeming structures left from those fairs. Among the structures at the Flushing…
Bohemian Rixdorf (Böhmisch-Rixdorf) – In A Berlin Minute (Week 152)
Dorf Rixdorf (village Rixdorf) or Böhmisch Rixdorf (Bohemian Rixdorf) is a little Berlin neighborhood, which is now part or Neukölln. Originally it was founded in 1737 by Protestant refugees from Bohemia. The main…
