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: Winter Trees and Shrubs: Box Elder (awkward botany). “Box elder (Acer negundo) is a maple that doesn’t often get credit for being a maple. …You could even say that box elder is a ‘rogue maple.’” We have some on our current property, easily identified in winter as mentioned here.
list: 24 Lessons from 2024 (Rohini, The Alipore Post). Some I especially like: Visit friends (and their cats) more often. Step out of your bubble. / Visit parks and gardens more often. Spend time under the shade of trees. / Blue is the deepest colour. Look for it in the sky, water and in cyanotypes. / Letting go is hard but the only way to keep moving forward. / Poetry is the secret ingredient.
long essay: New Year 1925: How Londoners Celebrated: History is made at the start of 1925. (Matt Brown/Londonist Time Machine). Among celebrations: “By 11pm, Ludgate Hill [where St. Paul’s is] was a ‘seething crowd from bottom to top, while outside the cathedral there was scarcely room to move.’ Such was the crush, that the pipers could no longer find space to play. Still, ‘other barbaric noises were made by bugles, concertinas, mouth-organs and squeakers.’ … Crowds also gathered around the steps of St Martin-in-the-Fields, beside Trafalgar Square. Here, composer Ralph Vaughan Williams led a sprawling choir of 600 students in a medley of folk carols. … 2,000 guests crowded into the Savoy. Come midnight, the main staircase saw a procession of news, as costumed actors recreated key events from the late year.”
news item: Sightings of deer wearing high-vis jacket raise questions, quips and concerns in B.C. village: Flummoxed reporter posts photos of clothed animal in McBride, B.C. (Andrew Kurjata/CBC News). “… to dress a deer would require someone to get the jacket around the wild animal’s legs and zip it up … ‘I don’t need to know the who,” she said. “I just want to know how.’”
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