Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses.
essay: Down to the Tide Line (Bitter Southerner/Boyce Upholt & Ben Galland). A lovely essay drawing on Rachel Carson’s writing (her Sea Trilogy), earth science, and the accompanying sumptuous photos, including of so-called Driftwood Beach on Georgia’s Jekyll Island. “But what got lost when The Beach became an obsession and a symbol synonymous with palm trees and turquoise water is that every coastline has its own biography.”
comic search engine: Calvin & Hobbes Search Engine (Mike Yingling)
photo essay: the garden atop a convention center in downtown Pittsburgh PA (Substack/Rootbound). Beds with native perennials, shrubs, and trees; raised beds of culinary herbs, edible flowers, vegetables; and “conceptually themed beds” including those honouring: Ukraine (sunflowers + vegetables and grains grown there), African ancestors (okra, plantains, sweet potatoes, shado beni), indigenous women (corn, pole beans, pumpkins), and Italian Americans (tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant).
photos: collages formed when layers of New York City subway ads deteriorate (Booooooom/Barton Lewis)
essay: Our Loveable Limitations (Out of the Blue/Mari Andrew). “This is a journey. I will be 290 years old by the time I start to fully grasp that not everybody is having my same experience of earth.” And “All day long, Sunflower the Cat is giving me feedback in her own way: Here’s what I can offer, and here’s what I can’t.”
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