Courtesy of the Wayback Machine, a screenshot of the Washington International School’s homepage from 16 years ago, the year I graduated. You can browse many of the links, view some wonderfully dated photos of what the campus looked like when rented out for special occasions. Check it out for yourself: WIS Homepage, 1998
In January, I posted a video about El Cherito, the aboriginal Salvadoran automobile from the mid 1970s. Kike Ramírez, on YouYube has posted a video recently of what I believe is the only Cherito still on the streets of San Salvador. Disfruten!
The EYE Film Institute Netherlands, and the associated cinematography museum formerly called the Filmmuseum, have posted a few short videos of Amsterdam from almost a century ago. What a wonderful thing to share. This is one of the video clips of Amsterdam from 1927. This is some of the earliest footage of Amsterdam. I think …
I like playing around with Google Earth. Ever since a 3rd grade “mapping skills,” class at the American School of Paris more than 25 years ago, I have been completely hooked on maps and globes. As a Third Culture Kid, maps held answers to questions about the country I was going …
Ipi, I know you enjoy posting pictures of flowers and gardens. I think you will enjoy the below set of pictures of your flowers and gardens that I have taken over the last few years. Enjoy!
A fearless and rather photogenic arthropod, eager to pose. This little critter loves coffee just as much as I do: the giant red-winged grasshopper (Tropidacris cristata ). A common pest on coffee farms in the Americas, the stripes of black and yellow of this juvenile will disappear after several molts and will …