Monthly Archives: February 2011

Tiptoe Through the Tulips

Posted on February 25, 2011 by marigold

This amazing photograph,(which I would credit if I knew who shot it), looks like a fabulous carpet or maybe a contemporary abstract painting.  In actuality, it’s an aerial perspective of tulip fields in Holland. Tulips were popular at the court … Continue reading →

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X Marks the Spot

Posted on February 17, 2011 by marigold

The official language of the Basque country of northern Spain and nearby France is Euskara, rife with x’s and z’s. (Look at the sign above: the only obvious words are “San Sebastian,” the city.) In Euskara, what I knew as … Continue reading →

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Let’s Hear It for World Nutella Day

Posted on February 11, 2011 by marigold

Somehow, February 5, National Nutella Day, slipped past my radar.  Nutella, for those who have avoided it either unknowingly or deliberately, is the chocolate/hazelnut spread  created by Pietro Ferrero in the early 1940s when there was very little chocolate available … Continue reading →

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Take the Vinyasa of Your Choice

Posted on February 5, 2011 by marigold

The first time I heard the title phrase, visions of condiments danced in my head as though  I’d been offered garnishes for a curry. Not quite. I was a newbie in a yoga class, dazzled by the lithe, twenty-something instructor … Continue reading →

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