Inspired by the Department Store in the Warner Bros. movie A Christmas Story. With nose pressed on the window, a youngster dreams of something from the window display under the tree on Christmas morning. Hand painted porcelain, with light cord.
The soils found in the Himalayas are diverse in character depending upon altitude, vegetation cover, slope, structure and stage. The major soil groups in the Himalayas are brown hill soil, sub-mountain soils, mountain meadow soil and red loamy soils, apart from other less significant types.
, Volcanoes, where Earth's sweet, hot interior enters the world of life. Volcanic soil is fertile because it is new, having just been erupted out into the upper world. It is fresh, unweathered, and loaded with all sorts of elements that are present in the Earth's crust. When the happy rain falls on volcanic soil it dissolves some of those elements and makes them available to plants.