“We have always trusted in nature to take care of us,” said Andrea Meini, the agronomist for the Cantine Leonardo da Vinci, a wine-growers cooperative in Italy’s Tuscany region. “We’ve really only begun to notice the extremes in the last…
So. I’ve made my way through a significant chunk of the photographs I took in the Kvarken World Heritage site last month and feel prepared enough to offer the following four photographs to choose from for rewards to the people…
I have no idea who this woman is. Just another Finnish photographer. I REALLY hope she doesn't mind that I took this picture. After a meal of fried muikku I went down to the the Söderfjärden Meteor Crater to find…
It is a humid mid-morning and the pond is glassy. Dragonflies pass over the muddy flats marking the edge of the water. A Red Admiral butterfly rests on a golden point of grass. A fat and roly-poly yellow bee lumbers…
The Finnish name Mustasaari literally translated means “black island” but as an ancient word Mustasaari holds more meaning that just the literal translation. Since the glaciers rolled away some 9,000 or so years ago, the Norra Kvarken has been rising…
Finns are going to laugh at me for this post but I don't care. I LOVE fried muikku! In English we know this little freshwater fish as vendace, Coregonus albula. In Finnish it is muikku. A member of the Salmonidae…
That is the Tuomiokirkko, the Helsinki Catherdral. While it is one of the most photographed buildings in all of Scandanavia, I've never been terribly impressed with it. I'm not sure why, I guess it is just that I'm not into…
My first crowdfunding campaign is under way! This is my very first attempt at crowdfunding one of the numerous projects I have in mind. It probably will not be the last. Please help me set this project in motion. Click…
Origionally published in Vrai Magazine ~ ~ ~ The island of Sandhornøya sits near the mouth of the Saltstarumen Sound in the far north of Norway. The shape of a squished heart stabbing into the Norwegian Sea, Sandhornøya is a…
“Why does Ukraine invest in nature conservation? Simple,” says Max Rossberg of the European Wilderness Society. “These young people are much more educated than we believe and they are realizing that nature has a value. So they are tapping into…
~ ~ ~ The cheesemaker Francesco Bagnoli lives with his parents and grandmother Lorena on the summit of an outrageously steep and pointy little Tuscan hill near Lamporecchio. The house seems cubist-inspired, all stacked both on top of and next to…
It was just a month ago....outside my window at Casale di Valle, down and across a string of vinyards, there was this one Tuscan hill crowned with these Lombardy poplars, heavy in personality. The mood of that hill changed almost…
