Date: October 18, 2020, Author: ndrodrigues
A watercolour painting of stoneware bottles and bowls. Stoneware is a rather broad term for pottery or other ceramics fired at a relatively high temperature. A modern technical definition is a vitreous or semi-vitreous ceramic made primarily from stoneware clay or non-refractory fire clay. Whether vitrified or not, it…
Read More...Date: October 6, 2020, Author: ndrodrigues
Autumn, also known as fall in North American English, is one of the four temperate seasons. Outside the tropics, autumn marks the transition from summer to winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere), when the duration of daylight becomes noticeably shorter and the temperature cools considerably. Day…
Read More...Date: October 3, 2020, Author: ndrodrigues
Darjeeling is a city and a municipality in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located in the Lesser Himalayas at an elevation of 2,000 metres (6,700 ft). It is noted for its tea industry, its views of Kangchenjunga, the world’s third-highest mountain, and the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway,…
Read More...Date: October 3, 2020, Author: ndrodrigues
Cologne (German: Köln) is the largest city of Germany’s most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city in Germany. With slightly over a million inhabitants (1.09 million) within its city boundaries, Cologne is the largest city on the Rhine and also the most populous city…
Read More...Date: October 3, 2020, Author: ndrodrigues
Striking, fiery, and red are probably not the words that come to mind when you think of perennial grass. But this is exactly what you get with Japanese bloodgrass (Imperata cylindrica). Its highly ornamental foliage deepens in color over the course of a growing season, from a pink tinge…
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