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Most Amazing Reproduction Cycle You've Ever Heard

August 15, 2018 • Leave a Comment

This is the most amazing reproduction behavior story I’ve ever heard. It involves a very carrying mothering. It involves… fire. It involves… a tree. And the tree is not the place for some hot loving… actually, I am wrong: the tree is the place for the hot loving. AND the tree is the one who does the loving. Yep. The hot one. Douglas Firs grow to b...

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The making of a good image: how much retouching do you do?

June 16, 2018 • Leave a Comment

I absolutely cringe at over-retouched images. Yet, how much is enough? When I am bringing the finished images, I am often asked how they come out looking so beautiful. “Photoshop”? No, photoshop gets a bad rap today due to its potential, overuse and sheer mystery of its powers. Photoshop is an important part of the work, but a good image start in...

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How to train your Viking: the weirdest answer a maiden can give to a Duke - Part 2

June 12, 2018 • Leave a Comment

I finished my last story at the part, where’s beautiful French maiden thought she couldn’t be bothered with by the mad changes of the European political map, when she suddenly was greatly bothered by the appearance of impressive looking former-Viking-nowadays-French- nobility Norseman and Duke named Robert. The maiden was in the middle of doing her...

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How to train your Viking: the weirdest answer a maiden can give to a Duke. Part 1.

June 12, 2018 • Leave a Comment

One of our recent trips was in Mystic, CT. The plan was incredibly simple, the trip - rewarding on so many levels that we are still rolling in the positive feelings about it. The most surprising part of the trip? Vikings!!! Yup, Vikings in Connecticut! Mystic Seaport has tons to offer to a family with kids. And I'll be thrilled to share the detail...

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Melting Hearts and Crayons: easy, beautiful, creative and funny Mother's Day craft

May 12, 2018 • 1 Comment

Once upon a time there were three little... no, not pigs, not even piglets. Still, they loved to squeal, roll in a mud, make silly sounds, play around all day long and behave like three silly little pigs. They even enjoyed building little houses that were not from straw, sticks or, thank God, bricks, but were just from pillows. One of them was swee...

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