“Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse.” – Harper Lee
Jul 3, 2025
“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.” – John Dewey
Jul 2, 2025
“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.” – Henry Melvill
Jul 1, 2025
“Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds—everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.” – E.B. White
Jun 30, 2025
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent van Gogh
Jun 29, 2025
37 years ago today, the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge, also known as the Second Bosphorus Bridge was completed over the famous stretch of water that divided Asia and Europe in the Classical Age. The bridge is named after the 15th-century Ottoman Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror, who conquered the Byzantine capital, Constantinople (Istanbul), in 1453. It is a gravity-anchored suspension bridge, with a 1,510 meter deck hanging on double vertical steel cables. READ more about this crazy construction... (1988)
