Link Fest: 17 Aug 2021

Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses.


Capybara Onsen Cheesecake: There is nothing not to love here. Capybaras! (Spoon & Tomago)

Video: Watch a dwarf kidney bean — one of 392 beans sent to Charles Darwin in 1857 — being cleaned (Twitter; sound on)

Science is big (Wikipedia)

““We are all very excited ….It’s very rare to find a new origin of carnivory.” (Vice)

Probably Los Angeles’s oldest beekeeper, at 97: ““Bees are like women,” Soriano, who’s been separated from his second wife for 35 years, said. “If you mess with them, they declare war.”  (LA Taco)

Video: As a big weebles fan in my day how did I miss this haunted house? (YouTube, 29 seconds)

Giant Joe-Pye weed overlooks Jersey City (Colassal)

Video: Backyard cookout in felt (The Morning News).


Featured image: Thunder Grill restaurant, Union Station, Washington, DC, Sept. 2014.

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