SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11. It's just after 6:00 and the morning is yet to be kissed by the sun's rays. Still, a group of eager hikers are gathering in front of the Sun Venture Tours office on Balmoral Avenue in Kingston for a trek to the Cockpit Country.
UNTIL I visited Australia last month for a conference, all I knew about the country was the Opera House in Sydney, that it's called the land Down Under and, thanks to cable and Steve Irwin (the crocodile hunter), I was fascinated by the Aussie accent...
THE BRIGHTEST idea in gardening right now doesn't come in a seed packet, but out of a can of paint. People are splashing a coat of Chinese red on the garden gate, painting the tool shed mustard yellow and tinting their terra-cotta pots a...