Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses.
images: Art Delivery: Canadian painter Sally Podmore (The Jealous Curator). “Her abstracted impressionistic style has evolved in an ongoing conversation with her natural surroundings. Themes in Sally’s art center [on] a sense of place, memory, and the ever-changing seasons of life.” I like their size and I also apparently like “abstracted impressionistic style.”
article: Field Guide to July 2024 (Vermont Center for EcoStudies). Deer ticks and deer flies; evening primrose and the primrose moth and evening primrose sweat bee; wolf’s milk-slime; Eastern red-backed salamanders; oven birds; Canada warblers; dragonflies.
interview: Meet the Narwhal Dentist (Nicola Jones/Hakai magazine). “I kept up my interest in anthropology. In my first year of dental school, I disappeared off the clinic floor to go to Micronesia for a month. I got called into the clinic by the director, and he said, “You really need to make a decision: Are you going to become an anthropologist? Or a dentist?” I didn’t understand why I couldn’t do both.”
article: Sambucus nigra (European black elder) (Jack Wallington/Wild Way). Wallington is extolling the virtues of the native elder in his country, but all this would apply to the American natives as well. He discusses using them in the landscape; propagating them; how to coppice them to keep/make them smaller; their benefits to wildlife (I’d add to his list that they make good cover for birds); making elderberry syrup/cordial. I planted two Sambucus canadensis (American elder) ten years ago and my how they have grown; I may use his coppicing idea.
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