Did the ancestors of your garden plants come from Bhutan? One of the exciting things about travelling, for a keen gardener, is to see familiar garden plants in their natural habitat. Over the last 500 years, plants have been collected
Himalayan Faces
A face to remember: the north-east face of Chomolungma (Mount Everest) – the Tibetan side, a photograph I took from the East Rongbuk Glacier. But the faces I have in mind are those of people. These are my companions on
Women Trading
It is customary to haggle over price … a little, It is part of their dignity as traders, They are not beggars. They have worked to grow, collect, make, package, or carry their wares, to sell them. They may not have
Travel Tales of Mogpog 4: More on Masks
We’ve been making masks for thousands of years. Why? Masks conceal, but they also reveal, transform and share – they are metaphors. Our minds are made of metaphors. In this fourth Tale of Mogpog, the town in the Philippines where
Creativity on High Places
Yes, there really is a ‘restaurant at the end of the universe’. I’ve always found high places conducive to creative thought, so here is some fun I’ve been having with my photo album. Since I took this photograph on Mount