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  The Sabal Palm (and the similar Saw Palmetto) are the most widely distributed palms in Florida.

The Pine Flatwoods habitat covers over 50% of Florida natural ecosystem area. The most common pine is Slash Pine or Pinus elliottii. He...

 R esidential compounds in the this scrubby community of agricultural workers on the road to Immokalee all have the same look: fence, p...

  Sugar cane, growing above, covers vast areas of inland Florida south of Lake Okeechobee and north of the Everglades.  Cane trucks bel...

  Multiple ranks of clipped hedges seem to be a staple of Palm Beach landscaping.   Also ornate gates, walls and sculpture, most lik...

Ai Wei Wei may now be one of the most famous artists in the world.  See the New York Times article at:   http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/a...

Ai Wei Wei was radicalized by the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan.  He went to the province with his team and painstakingly compliled a list of n...

  The sculptures above are 10 feet tall bronze depictions of each animal in the Chinese zodiac year, entitled "Circle of Animals/Zodi...

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has done a fine job of staging certainly the most opulent exhibition of works by the best known contemporary g...

  The big news for November 2012 was the reelection of Barack Obama. There were long lines at polls, a narrow margin, and a very divided ...