All Blog Posts Tagged 'zoobird' (127)

Evan tells us about the Church of Holy Colors, Gainesville, FL - do you have art/creativity to share? Check out the Art Zoo, Music Zoo, Writing Zoo, Poetry Zoo, and more here on Zoobird. 

Yep, our friend Charlie can swing that axe - share your favorite moments in Zoobird's Music Zoo!

Check out this and the dozen or so related videos on Ethnobotany! These were recorded in the Pisgah Nat'l Forest in North…

Decent passes of the Space Station over Gainesville Thursday night: The space station will appear over the northwest horizon at 6:34pm, reach about two-thirds up the southwest sky at 6:37pm, and then disappear over the south-southeastern horizon at 6:40pm.

(photo by Michael…

This is from Madhur Jeffries amazing cookbook. If you've never tried Saag Alloo, you gotta do it! It's so good and a nice twist on things you'll probably find very nearby. Got a favorite recipe on your mind? Ease the weight, share it here on…

This is my favorite photo from 2011. Otters frolicking at Alexander Spring in Florida. Tough choice! Alexander Spring is an incredibly nice camping spot. This was on a full moon weekend. We canoed in the moonlight, cooked over an open fire. It doesn't get any better than Alexander Spring, but it's worth trying!

What are your favorite photos and times from last year?…

According to Wired, many studies have shown that banana peels can repeatedly filter water (up to 11 washes) "by absorbing toxins, especially heavy metals in industrial waste like lead, copper, cadmium, and chromium." (Photo from Wikipedia)

Info from Wired magazine, "Three Smart Things About Banana Peels", page 50,…

(Original art work by William Rafti of the William Rafti Institute)

Every once in a while, I see something that gets my blood curdling, my skin into goosebumps. I don't want to look. I keep looking for a while and feel a sense of revulsion, or voyeurism, of even a bit of…

Coyote tells us about the Firefly Primitive Skills Gathering:

The last shuttle launch got me thinking about how important the space program has been in my life...

My father worked for General Electric in New York state (Schenectady?  Syracuse? one of the two) but he transferred to Daytona Beach when I was three.  Daytona Beach was selected because of its relative proximity…

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I met Kristian at the Hawthorne Hostel in Portland, just as he was heading out to India in July, 2009. Here's a link to his Zoobird page: http://www.zoobird.com/profile/KristianStieglelr

He's traveled around on a motorcycle. He spends some time working with an orphanage in Pokhara…

You can read (I like it) or you can go outside and discover a few things yourself. What’s a You Pick farm? It’s a farm where you visit and pick your own fruit. There’s a new

hostel in Gainesville called “The Zen Hostel”. Owner Tobe Terrell gave

me a book…

The House at 1540 E. Terrace Lane, by Bert Woodall

The house at 1540 E. Terrace Lane was just plain ugly. It was built in 1949 by a man named Robinson whose plumbing supply business grew prosperous in the post-war construction boom. Robinson was a simple man and his architectural standards began and ended with the word sturdy. It was a narrow house, and unlovely from the…