The bizarre world of humans and the cats that own them

View From My Train Window V

 Traveling with reading material goes hand in hand.

It is also a pleasure to read standing up

 Especially with this view

 Some of you were asking, what was I reading, here's the answer

The publication is called "Boiling Point. Can citizen activism save the world?"

Authored by Kumi Naidoo   

for Development Dialogue, 

a forum provided by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation.

The publication is available to download here

 

View From My Train Window 2

Sunrise Denmark

The inbetween - Denmark and Germany

View from my train window

Images from my train window - along the Hudson River winter 2012

“The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Image copyright  © Ana Elisa Fuentes

a september summer evening

@HolocaustMuseum presents Sudan at the Crossroads: Bearing Witness - a video & photography installation http://bit.ly/aLygob

Photo a Day

A Photo a Day.....

In the Alpine Werdenfelser County of Upper Bavaria, bordering Austria, in the region of the Tyrol, the Fasching tradition saunters throughout the narrow Alpines villages as it has for generations. Fasching or the day before the fast, also known as Fat Tuesday, was celebrated historically by those wishing to mimic the aristocracy or heads of the church without fear of retribution. In the hamlet of Krün, nestled in the Alps, participants wear carved wooden masks, their family heirlooms, dressing as their ancestors did. The maschkera promenade throughout the city to drive away the winter season. To cast out the winter ghosts and bad spirits and to invoke spring, through song, music, or cow bells.

My photograph on watercolor paper.

"From The Fields To The Tank" a project in collaboration with the Global Reporting Initiative has been published in the current issue of SUBLIME magazine, London, U.K. Some facts and figures: Vegetable Oil as a fuel goes back to 1893 when German inventor Rudolf Diesel, created the engine that bears his name. Diesel originally tested his engine using peanut oil.According to the UN World Food and Agriculture Organization, Europe is the world's largest producer of biofuels, with Germany as the backbone of that production. Germany averages to date, 4.3 million tons of biofuels, derived from Raps, according to a November 2007 Reuters news agency report. To see additional photos on the Biofuels project, go here