the entertainers for the spirits

if there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call?

---

May 20th 2022
Banyan trees are killers. They start life in a nice mulchy fork of another tree’s branches, and as they grow, they send tendrily aerial roots twisting and twining down and around the host tree. Once the roots find the ground, they thicken and slowly choke the other tree to death. This is the ‘strangler’ fig. A large part of the world considers them sacred.The one in our front yard is at leas ... read more

Asia » Thailand » Central Thailand » Bangkok

---

A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more