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I apologize for my inconsistency in posting the Geology Picture of the Week over the past few weeks. I will still be continuing, but my February is disrupted, so I probably won't do one next week. I'll try to return to normalcy in March. So I thought for this one I'd do a couple of quick-hitters. First is from the Montserrrat Volcano Observatory; they have a Flickr page. The Soufriere Hills volcano had a partial dome collapse on February 11. The picture shows the ash cloud and a pyroclastic flow. Montserrat Volcano Observatory Flickr page The second is a shot...

In the valleys of Patagonia, the talk is of an astonishing revival of the Welsh language By Marcus Tanner in Gaiman 19 April 2003 In a red-brick farmhouse in the Patagonian village of Gaiman, Eluned Gonzalez is making jam, and masses of it. As her tiny home-help, a native woman with a long pigtail, sweeps the floor aimlessly, Eluned and her family prepare a multitude of jars that will store enough preserves for many winters. It is a quintessentially Welsh scene, and as the vats of fruit bubble, the conversation flows in Welsh, the language in which Eluned and her...