The lie of grocery store cacti (and why they’re even cooler than they seem)
You know those cacti near the checkout line of the grocery store or hardware store? The ones with a dark green, triangular stem, and a colourful round “flower” on the top? They’re not actually a cactus with a flower - they’re two different cacti grafted together.
The 6-million-year-long prehistoric eruption that built a giant’s road
On our second tour day in Iceland, we went to the Reynisfjara beach near Vík, Iceland's southernmost village. The beach is gorgeous, with crashing waves, black sand on the shore, jagged sea stacks in the water that made me imagine nesting dragons, and huge walls of stone columns facing the water.
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I have a confession to make: this blog is six months late.