Would I get an appointment before my dog bled to death? — My dog’s bloody nose started out as a slow drip from his left nostril. We assumed he had accidentally hooked his nose with one of his hind toenails. Or that one of our cats had scratched him. In the worst-case scenario, we suspected he had a foxtail lodged in his…

Or, how I use my washing machine to water my trees. Don’t let your “used” water go down the drain. With a little effort, you can reuse it on your yard, plants, and trees. Here are five alternatives to turning on the tap. Washing Machine Wastewater I attached a pool hose to my…

If there are no wide shots of the exterior of the house, rest assured that it’s located on a busy road beside a liquor store in a crime zone. I’ve been house hunting on real estate sites for a few years. Yeah, years. And after looking at thousands of photos…

Use contrast, exposure, highlights, etc. with intention. And learn the difference between an alpaca and a llama. All photo editing programs have basic tools like contrast, brightness, exposure, etc. But if you’re like me, you don’t really know how to use them. …

Plan your shots with these compositional tools in mind, and watch your pics go from snapshots to photographs worthy of social media. — When I first started snapping pictures, I didn’t understand composition. Years later, I discovered that my photos could be vastly improved by using the rule of thirds, diagonal, triangle, golden ratio, and golden spiral grid guides in Photoshop’s crop tool (shown below). …

When children wrote to author EB White asking if his stories were true, he said they were not, but that, “Real life is only one kind of life. There is also the life of the imagination.” Sometimes the two commingle: a riverside estate is reimagined as a pirate ship, a…

The Mackenzie Poltergeist is the most well-documented paranormal phenomenon in the world. Hundreds of people have reported being attacked by ghosts at Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh, Scotland. The most sinister of these specters is Sir George MacKenzie, a 17th-century Scottish lawyer…

Do you believe in ghosts? More than 4 in 10 Americans do. But what exactly is a ghost? They’re not all Casper, Slimer, or Moaning Myrtle. According to ghost experts, apparitions vary widely and can be classified into the following groups: Residual Haunting Ghosts A residual haunting ghost is an entity created by…

The oldest existing photos of (mostly)living animals. In 2015 there were about 6.5 billion cat pictures online. But cat photos are nothing new. We have been photographing our cats, dogs, chickens, and other animals since the introduction of the camera in 1839. As any pet lover with a camera knows…