Let’s Talk Food: Cooking with children
If you have your kids with you this week because they are on winter break, this is a good time to spend time with them in the kitchen.
Virginia is for lovers … of wine and autumn leaves
OUDOUN COUNTY, Va. — Virginia has long been a favorite destination for travelers, thanks to its beautiful beaches, breathtaking mountainous scenery and storied American history. (It was home to four of the first five U.S. presidents.)
Volcano Watch: Hawaii’s volcanoes are quiet and it’s a bit spooky
Here in Hawaii nei, we don’t have the dramatically changing leaf colors and brisk temperatures that mark the arrival of fall. And as October arrived this year, our night skies were dark, with no warm orange glow indicative of lava erupting on the surface.
Tropical Gardening: Cool weather perfect to plant a vegetable garden
Inflation and increasing food costs can be a problems but also an opportunity to be creative in your garden. One project to reduce food bills and have some family fun as is to grow your own vegetables. Yards and lanais are prime opportunity to help cut food expenses. You can do it by planting vegetables along with your ornamentals.
Let’s Talk Food: Food happenings around the island
The 25th annual A Taste of Hilo will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 15 at Sangha Hall.
Volcano Watch: What do we know about the Kulanaokuaiki Tephra of Kilauea volcano?
Kilauea’s recent summit eruptions and lava lakes are exciting for residents, visitors, and scientists. However, Kilauea has had numerous explosive eruptions in the last 2,000 years that remain poorly understood.
This little Las Vegas claims a large presence in New Mexico’s history, landscape — and skies
In the first chapter of Genesis, it is written, “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” Eons later, the Las Vegas City Council wrote, “Let there be dark: and there was dark.”
Tropical gardening: Fertilize with organics for health fall vegetable gardens
It is time to think about planting your fall vegetable garden. This week and for the next few weeks let’s consider landscapes that feed us.
Let’s Talk Food: The ubiquitous cauliflower
Poor cauliflower! It is a vegetable that did not get much attention until someone decided to mince it and call it cauliflower rice. It always seemed to be a stepchild, some calling it ubiquitous as it is ever present but it doesn’t get much attention.
It’s a glorious time to hike the High Sierra, now a paradise of wildflowers and snow
“Have you ever heard of the cowboy straddle?” my partner, Emanuel, asked.
Volcano Watch: Tsunamis pose a major threat to Hawaii: 24/7 monitoring at PTWC
It’s 3 a.m. and you’re halfway through a 12-6 a.m. graveyard shift at the NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu. Fortunately, you slept before your shift began so you’re feeling alert while you alternate between performing checks on the global seismic and sea level data analysis systems and doing research aimed at improving the speed and accuracy of earthquake magnitude estimation.
Tropical Gardening: Add fall color with flowering plants
What crazy weather we are having! Kona normally experiences the rainy season from April to almost November. This year August and most of September were abnormally dry, as was the rest of the island.
Let’s Talk Food: KTA Super Stores Kona Coffee Recipe Contest
The oldest food festival, the Kona Coffee Festival, will be held November 3-12. The very first festival occurred in 1970 with the intent to preserve, perpetuate and promote Kona’s unique, nearly 200 year heritage.
Volcano Watch: Another Kilauea summit eruption, another opportunity to learn
Kilauea is now erupting at the summit for the fifth time since 2020! The ongoing eruption offers an opportunity for Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) staff to learn and collaborate with partners at the University of Hawaii at Hilo (UH-Hilo) Geology Department.
Halloween and Christmas are the new summer at California theme parks
It used to be that you could toss a bowling ball down Main Street USA without hitting a soul on Halloween night or Christmas morning because kids and their families had something better to do on those classic holidays.
Tropical Gardening: Clumping bamboos for hedges add to that tropical look
In the good old days, a typical Hawaiian garden was large enough to give neighbors plenty of space to have privacy. As our population increases and land costs escalate, lots are getting smaller. This requires creativity to effectively give us a little garden peace and quiet. Traditional garden designs of Japan have dealt with these issues over the centuries. A trip to Japan would be great, but we can learn by observing how local landscape architects and designers have addressed these challenges.
Let’s Talk Food: Fruits and their ripening
I have written about what fruits need to be purchased ripe, and what ones can be left on the counter to further ripen. With the high cost of fruits these days, it is worth repeating.
‘Spit happens’: Colorado alpaca farm offers overnight stays that bring laughter, joy, healing
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Kim Wesson likes to say alpacas found her.
What is it about Austin? Simply put, this ‘weird’ Texas city has it all
For a whale-watching cruise there’s Boston, for a dolphin-watching cruise, Miami, but for a bat-watching cruise, go to Austin, Texas.
Volcano Watch: Tilt measurements still vital to volcano monitoring after more than a century
Measuring how a volcano deforms in response to moving magma is one of the cornerstones of volcano monitoring. Our instrumentation includes a number of newer, satellite-based methods but another important instrument has been around a lot longer: the tiltmeter.
