Coronado Flower Power
2015-04-23
It’s April and time for the Coronado Flower Show, one of my favorite places to go. Hope you like this tour! Coronado Flower Show 2012:
What’s that buzzing? Bees!
2015-01-20
We are enjoying beautiful weather here in Fallbrook, in the 70s and 80s. The trees had not yet finished shedding their fall leaves when they burst into bloom and the scent is drawing bees by the hundreds to the two fruitless pear trees out by my back deck. The airContinue Reading
Teresa Platt: a busy career, a busy life
2015-01-12
As of 2024, Teresa Platt is on sabbatical, traveling, researching, writing and taking photos. Her architectural and landscape photographs of the villages of the Lot River Valley have been included in exhibits in the Lot department of Southwest France. Educated in fine arts, architecture and communications, Teresa worked in marketingContinue Reading
Jefferson Library
2013-08-07
The Jefferson Library is a national treasure. Considered one of the world’s most beautiful buildings when it opened in 1898, it is just as lovely today. I visited it in June 2013 and took some pictures. Hope you enjoy them. The Jefferson Library is one of the three buildings that Continue Reading
Tea Party Jam: “cottage cooks” win one
2013-07-26
Most people might not have noticed but Californians just won control of their own kitchens – a wonderful victory for the little guys. Governor Jerry Brown signed AB1616 in September 2012, allowing the “cottage food industry” to create and sell goods, removing layers of red tape that have given largeContinue Reading
The UN’s Climate-Change Hypocrisy
2013-05-16
A recent United Nations report admonished the world for not becoming “climate neutral” fast enough to avoid the “catastrophic consequences” of climate change. It’s an odd complaint for the U.N. to make, considering that the international body has failed to reduce its own greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The average humanContinue Reading
The Shameful and Painful Spotted Owl Saga: Shooting Stripes To Save Spots
2013-05-03
Spots versus stripes? Which do you prefer? Our federal government prefers spots and is moving forward with a million-dollar-a-year plan to remove 9,000 striped owls from 2.3% of 14 million Western acres of protected spotted owl habitat. Our government is shooting wood owls with stripes to protect those with spots; toContinue Reading
DC At Sunset
2013-02-05
There is something special about DC at sunset. I hope you enjoy this short slideshow of pictures I took with my FujiFilm FinePix camera while walking home February 5 and 6th. At the end I’ve popped in five pictures I took last weekend with my iPhone, walking home from dinnerContinue Reading
First Quarter in DC
2013-01-04
It’s been about 3 months since I moved from Fallbrook, California -1,700 people per square mile – to Washington, DC – 10,000 people per square mile. Yes, it’s been an adjustment. No avocados, citrus trees or cowboy hats. Lots of suits, briefcases and people walking. No coyotes or quail; lotsContinue Reading
In Washington, DC
2012-10-13
I’ve just started a new job at the Environment and Enterprise Institute at the National Center for Public Policy Research in Washington, DC. Am feeling optimistic and idealistic. You can contact me at: Teresa Platt Director, Environment and Enterprise Institute The National Center for Public Policy Research www.nationalcenter.org 501 Capitol Court, NE,Continue Reading