Paradise, Shangri-la, Eden, Nihon Teien, Arcadia… gardens go by many names. Whatever they are called, it’s a long accepted theme across many cultures that a garden is a metaphor for life. Just as we select and edit pieces of the natural outside world to create our garden, we select the objects, the ideas, and even […]
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Summer in a red mesh bag. Found in the bin at the grocery store. Thrown in the freezer until the heat of the afternoon. Plastic tubes of almost too sweet frozen shards of red, orange, purple, green, yellow, and blue. So sweet they almost seemed bitter, so cold you could barely hold them. Freeze Pops
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Pictured above: Oakmoss Lichen – Evernia Prunastri, and Common Greenshield Lichen – Flavoparmelia Caperata. Oakmoss has the tree branch appearance, and Greenshield is the smoother one with cup formations and little black hairs. Lichens… Those in the picture above are only two of many I remember discovering, collecting, and studying as a child. I was
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