They are everywhere. In the supermarket. In big box stores. In churches and the most modest flower shop. I can usually smell them before I see them. What am I talking about? Easter lilies. We’ll see and smell them in our sanctuary on Easter morning. But why have these glorious, gorgeous, showy white lilies become so closely associated with Easter?
The most obvious and common explanation is that the lily’s blossom bursts forth from a bulb ...
Continue Reading → ShareSince their discovery by a mining prospector in the early 1900s, visitors to Racetrack Playa in Death Valley, California, have been fascinated by what are dubbed its sailing stones. The rocks at Racetrack Playa seem to move on their own during the nighttime hours, leaving a track or trail behind them in the sand. In 2013, researchers used GPS and time-lapse photography to record the movement of approximately 60 rocks, some of which move ...
Continue Reading → ShareI read in the news that a bird watcher named Peter Kaestner has recently achieved the nearly impossible task of having identified 10,000 of the International Ornithologist Congress’ 10,770 worldwide bird species. His 10,000th bird sighting was an Orange-Tufted Spiderhunter that he saw near the seaport town of Bislig, Philippines. My grandfather and grandmother were enthusiastic birders too. I keep their well-worn Peterson’s Guide on my bookshelf for purely sentimental reasons. They recorded along the ...
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