Purim on the bus to Beer Sheva

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Tomorrow the Purim holiday starts, but today school kids wore their costumes to class.

Suddenly my bus filled up with a high school boy sporting white wings, a devil with red horns, and lots of girls in very short dresses and outlandish costumes.

The Bedouin men and women sitting at the bus stop looked on in amazement and amusement.

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For information about Purim you are welcome to click on my "Purim" label.

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1607 Atlantic World Map, Jamestown Settlement, Williamsburg, Virginia

Jamestown Settlement offers a variety of attractions; the fort, a Native American village, and replicas of the ships that brought the settlers in 1607. It also features a fantastic gallery. This map depicts the understanding of the lands in the New World at the time.

Steel Giant

Ein stählerner Riese neben dem Palast der Republik an der Theodor-Heuss-Straße

This steel giant guards the "Palast der Republik" at Theodor-Heuss-Straße.

High-Foraging Chamois

Springtime is when high-foraging chamois give birth; there are now about 8,000 in Italy’s Gran Paradiso National Park.

See more photos from the February 2015 feature story “Paradise Found.”

Get the story of how Stefano Unterthiner fell in love with photography as a teenager in Gran Paradiso National Park.

Summer Dreaming, Williamsburg, Virginia

Patience runs thin with the cold, snow and winter in general, pushing thoughts to warmer pleasures such as napping under a gnarled tree in the summer sun.