Dec 4th, 2012 at 6:30PM:
Some travel moments just beg to be captured on film. Take this photo of a Turkish woman on the steps of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul. She sits calmly in a sea of pigeons, looking off to a point beyond the photo's boundaries. Her bright blue headscarf stands out against the faded backdrop. Her expression is pensive, and somewhat enigmatic. Who is this woman? What is she thinking? Why is she ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Photo Of The Day: Woman Feeding The Pigeons
Dec 4th, 2012 at 6:30PM:
Some travel moments just beg to be captured on film. Take this photo of a Turkish woman on the steps of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul. She sits calmly in a sea of pigeons, looking off to a point beyond the photo's boundaries. Her bright blue headscarf stands out against the faded backdrop. Her expression is pensive, and somewhat enigmatic. Who is this woman? What is she thinking? Why is she ...Photo Of The Day: Pigeons Of Jaipur
Nov 15th, 2012 at 5:00PM:
Pigeons are odd birds. Common all over the world, especially in cities, they can be considered tourist attractions like in Venice's St. Marks Square, or considered a nuisance to city dwellers (myself included) who see them as flying rats. Still, any large flight of birds can make for a spectacular photo, such as today's Photo of the Day from Jaipur, Rajasthan in India. The added pops of color ...Five sustainable alternatives to turkey this Thanksgiving or holiday season
Nov 7th, 2011 at 12:00PM: If you expected to see "Tofurkey" anywhere in this article, you clearly aren't familiar with my work. Nope, no textured vegetable protein here.
As a kid--an obnoxiously picky eater, at that--turkey was on my lengthy list of foods to avoid. I suspect it was the notoriously dried-out birds of my youth that caused my aversion. Today, I like turkey, but it's honestly not one of my favorite eating ...Photo of the Day (8-19-09)
Aug 19th, 2009 at 5:00PM: At St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy, as StrudelMonkey who took this shot says, there are pigeons galore. These are just two of them. I love the movement in the image on the left in contrast to the bird on the right. A perfect shot snapped at a perfect travel moment.
As I was in St. Mark's Square just three days ago with my son who sat still trying to get pigeons to eat cracker crumbs out of ...Barbara Walters' apartment had an intruder while she was on vacation
Jul 29th, 2009 at 1:30PM: One of the worst things that can happen when one is away on vacation is a break in. It happened to me once. There I was in Kentucky with miles between my apartment with its missing TV, vacuum cleaner and leather jacket and worries that someone had been rummaging through my stuff--a person I didn't know.
When Barbara Walters came home from being gone for several days, she noticed her apartment ...Don't feed the NYC pigeons -- you could be fined $1000
Nov 14th, 2007 at 11:41PM: If you're going to be in NYC in the future, do not, I repeat, do NOT feed the pigeons. You could be fined $1000. New York officials are considering implementing a fine for people who feed these birds, and they're also considering other measures like distributing birth control to the birds (seriously! Well, not birth control per se -- some other type of contraceptive.) They might even bring in ...
