Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses.
cartoons: Overheard At The Farmer’s Market (Liza Donnelly/Seeing Things)
article with photos: Tan Yamanouchi’s New House Speaks to His Cats’ Desires (Kushal Jain/Spoon & Tamago). His cats’ desires: Temperature Tier Supreme; Proximity, Yet with Space to Spare; and Safe Havens Abound. Pretty cool.
essay: How to light the dark months A manifesto for winter light (Katherine May/The Clearing). “Lighting winter is an art and a daily practice, an act of survival and a gesture of love.” She offers 10 ideas for fighting the gloom, including noticing dawn and dusk, getting outside every day, reveling in apricity, and sleeping differently, resting more, retreating, reflecting, and contemplating.
3-min video: Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It? (Steve Martin/Only Murders in the Building/Hulu). Absolute genius. Song by by Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, Marc Shaiman, and Scott Wittman.
photo essay: tour of Los Viveros de Chihuahua – Part 1 (The Nurseries of Chihuahua) (Botanica Chaotica). In the mood to look at a tropicalish garden? Me too. This one’s in a low-income neighbourhood, with inexpensive and downcycled containers, bedding plants, boxwoods!, agaves and other succulents, fruit trees, and more.
