Tag: Remarkable Landscapes
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Rewards of Composting in a Small Space
Out the kitchen door, to the right off the landing, I’ve positioned the compost bin for easy access. I’m rewarded with views of my back garden and this one of my front. It’s a view of the front I only see from this angle so it’s a treat. Today I was rewarded by pink dianthus…
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Dawn Pastures
Dew soaked pastures glow in the golden light of dawn. I savor these picturesque views as I drive back roads to my current landscape installation site. I see brown long horn cattle tucked down into the field and white horses standing up. Makes me realize that horses must sleep standing up. Every movie and tv…
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Clouds and Biophilians
Photo: Maria von Brincken copyright 2011 Sometimes clouds add an awesome dimension. Here in this landscape created by beavers, herons rear their young, while birds sing, frogs croak, and humans, if they are lucky enough to encounter this world, rediscover wonder. Biologist E. O. Wilson coined the word “biophilia’ to express the idea that “we have…
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Favorite Flower Show Image
I love this image and this display taken at the Boston Flower Show, March 18, the morning I managed to attend. It shows color, form, texture from plants, sculpture, and field-stone steppers. I love the use of sculpture in this exhibit as a whole. I wish more people would go the extra step and…
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Animal Tracks in my Snow
As I wrote the headline, Shirley Temple’s voice singing “Animal Crackers in My Soup” rang in my head. Amazing. Where did that come from? Also amazing is Mark Wuredel’s photo from his Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) exhibition http://www.pem.org/exhibitions/117-imprints_photographs_by_mark_ruwedel “Imprints: Photographs by Mark Ruwedel” that I saw last week. Seeing it changed the way I look at landscape.…
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Freezing here in New England while Roses in bloom in San Francisco
Visiting family in San Francisco over the weekend I took this image of the gorgeous park planting at the Golden Gate Bridge Park (not the official name–too jet lagged to look it up). Here in New England I return to making winter arrangements in containers, decorating for the holidays and trying to ignore the garden clean-up chores…
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Patterns on Water from Broadmoor Walk
First weekend in October found me walking on a glorious day in the Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary(Natick, MA http://www.massaudubon.org/Nature_Connection/Sanctuaries/Broadmoor/index.php ). It’s a truly amazing place. These photos were taken from the boardwalk area overlooking one of the ponds. Recommend you explore this landscape.
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Treasure Found Reminds Me of Another Journey
Perhaps this photo expresses the genius locii of the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden’scultivated landscape. It features interwoven masses of perennials embracing the immense ‘erratic boulder’. The outcropping reminds me of Uluru or Ayer’s Rock in Australia–not anywhere as large, of course, but with the same slumbering sentience that some large stone masses exude. It also features…
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Treasures from the Road
Exploring the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden in Boothbay, ME found me on a narrow path deep in the woods. Perhaps this photo reveals the essence of the wild part of CMBG?
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Remembering Late Summer
It’s snowing today and quite beautiful. I’m enjoying the woodland view from the comfort of my home and grateful for it. Within my view the indoor garden features the stunning blooms of ‘Dancing Queen’ Amaryllis that I showcased in this blog last January. Two other varieties are promising flowers and some ‘Paperwhite’ narcissus just might bloom and…