Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses.
video: A Taste of Italy: A 10-day long bike ride through Italy (Scotty Laughland/The Radavist). Eight minutes of dirt biking on hand-built trails, with amazing views and terrain, and a little sightseeing.
essay with photos: Lawn-Less in Seattle! (Karen Chapman/Le Jardinet). Design and planting of a yard without a lawn in Sammamish, Washington. You can also look at the foliage-first front garden renovation for this same property, installed a year later.
short video: Subtle Foreshadowing (xran..domx/TikTok). 38 seconds of it.
essay: Time (Helen Skelton/My Heart in My Two Hands). Living with Stage 4 cancer: “The balancing act between ‘I need rest’ and ‘I don’t want to waste a minute’ is intense. … The fear of how close future pain and distress might be is intense. The hope that it is far away is intense. … Trying to maintain a lighter hold on plans, ambitions and dreams for the future is intense. The discomfort when I realise I’m spending time doing something I’m not connected to or enjoying is intense. … And my appreciation and sheer love for the time I spend alive is also intense.”
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