Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses.
playlist: Aperitivo – for happy hour (Ali LaBelle/Spotify). 24 songs, 1.5 hours of music.
artwork: Michele BonDurant: Painted Paper Collage (Danielle Krysa/art delivery : 05.18.24). Painted paper collages of Ohio-based artist Michele BonDurant: “I intend to breathe life into the mundane and familiar by experimenting with layering, shadow, color, pattern, and subtle nuances of light and form.” Stylised houses and fruit, and if you go to her Instagram account, you’ll see she’s also into trees and other landscape elements.
resource page: black swallowtail (Wild Cherry Farm, in Michigan). Lists of plants the black swallowtail butterfly needs, including both native and non-native host and larval plants and native and non-native adult food. They list food sources for other butterflies (and specialist bees) as well, including Great Spangled Fritillary, American Lady, Baltimore Checkerspot, Mourning Cloak, Eastern Tiger and Giant swallowtails, Pearl Crescents, Silver-Spotted Skippers, Spring Azures, Hummingbird Clearwing Moths, Monarchs, and others commonly seen here in New England..
photo essay: City Light (Andrew Eberlin/Photos, Photographers & Photo Books ). A September visit to the City of London, the oldest part of London; from the 1600s it has been a “hub for money lending, insurance and ‘cleaning’, which it still excels at today.”
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