forest house cuckoo clocks

Insect remains form Grafton artist's body of work

Patty Rux, 47, of Grafton often seeks out the assistance of the "wanted" section of Craigslist for her meticulous craft and art projects at home. She's no stranger to posting to the pages online, often asking Internet searchers, posters and voyeurs for ...

Widow Margaret Tyler, 71, is a retired telephonist who has four grown-up ...

Funnily enough people from the Black Forest in Germany, where the cuckoo clocks we know today were originally made, still send their clocks to us for restoration. Now that we are both in our sixties we are starting to think about finding a new home for ...

Trekking Around Titlis: Snowshoeing in Central Switzerland

It's late afternoon, that magical part of the day when the sun gives those last rays everything it's got. The pretty alpine landscape now seems magical, as a pink hued glow is cast upon the snow. Only the soft crunch of snowshoes striking the ground ...

Germany's great outdoors: The Black Forest, wine country and Saxon Switzerland

Between the bucolic Black Forest High Road and the Murg Valley, it protects thick woodland, glacial lakes, thunderous waterfalls and dark moors. You can even find house-sized cuckoo clocks near the village of Triberg. The region is also a fine-dining ...

Germany's Black Forest: a popular holiday destination

The tallest tree in the Black Forest is the silver fir, which can grow to a height of 65 meters. With the golden sunshine dancing on the treetops and the forest dotted with quaint wooden houses surrounded by flowers, the scene is like gazing upon a ...

Richard III: An alternative guide to the procession route

Moving swiftly on to Market Bosworth, once home to Samuel Johnson, who endured a short, miserable stint as a teacher at Dixie Grammar (where his life was as "unvaried as the note of a cuckoo" and where he was uncertain "whether it was more ...

W+K Made a Giant, Amazing Cuckoo Clock Out of an Oregon Maple for Portland ...

Chainsaw sculptor J. Chester Armstrong carved the clock, made from a single Oregon maple, in the national forest just outside Portland. It took three months W+K is now looking for an indoor location in Portland to house the clock through the winter ...

Meet Britain's most obsessive collectors

Funnily enough people from the Black Forest in Germany, where the cuckoo clocks we know today were originally made, still send their clocks to us for restoration. Now that we are both in our sixties we are starting to think about finding a new home for the ...