event

Daily Pic 07/30/18 (Friendship Day)

Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters

Children at play for International Day of Friendship

Does this photo of kids at play in Kolkata, India, prompt memories of fun times you had as a child, when the world didn’t extend much further than you and your friends? If so, you’re in the right frame of mind to celebrate International Day of Friendship, or just Friendship Day. The idea began in a bid of crass commercialism: The holiday was invented and marketed by the founder of Hallmark Cards. But the public saw through that and it didn’t take. Decades later, a peace-promoting group called the World Friendship Crusade relaunched Friendship Day in Paraguay as a way to foster peace. It’s been gaining traction ever since.

Daily Pic 07/30/17

© Steve Gettle/Minden Pictures

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Michigan



Daily Pic 07/27/18 (Total Lunar Eclipse)

Kazuhiro Nogi/Getty Images

Composite image of a lunar eclipse

Tonight, a total lunar eclipse will be visible around many parts of the globe, but not in North America. (We’re disappointed too, but we can get through this together.) For an eclipse to qualify as ‘total’ the moon must pass through the middle of the Earth’s shadow, casting a reddish pall over the entire visible surface of the moon. Since nightfall will happen too late in the US to see tonight’s eclipse, we’re sharing this composite photo that shows the total lunar eclipse that occurred on Jan 31, 2018.

Daily Pic 07/27/17

Diving off the Turquoise Coast
© Charlie Jung/500px

Scuba diving in Kaş, Turkey



Good Friday & Happy Easter

Good Friday

Good Friday

Good Friday is a Christian religious holiday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. The holiday is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday, and may coincide with the Jewish observance of Passover. It is also known as Holy Friday, Great Friday, Black Friday, or Easter Friday, though the last term properly refers to the Friday in Easter week.


Let’s get quackin’


Basket of Kitties


Hopping Penguins


Slip and Slide


Celebrating Bunny

Happy Easter

Easter 2016

Easter, also called Pasch or Resurrection Sunday, is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial after his crucifixion by Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD. It is the culmination of the Passion of Christ, preceded by Lent, a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance.

Easter 2016

For all those who think Easter is about chocolate bunnies and eggs, here's one for you, but you really should know better.



Happy New Year 2018

Happy New Year 2018

Wishing Everyone a Very Happy New Year

I hope that you all have a wonderful new year and a chance to make 2018 a happy, healthy and prosperous year for yourselves and others. I hope that any bad experience from this year does not follow you and that you can let go of any harm that held you back and start fresh with a new outlook and hope for the better.