Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses. Unless mentioned, all links should be free of paywalls.
essay: Creating Caches: Winter Preparation (Loren Merrill/The Outside Story/Northern Woodlands) Not only do red and grey squirrels (and mice and voles) cache nuts and seeds for later/winter, so do red-breasted and white-breasted nuthatches, tufted titmice, black-capped and boreal chickadees, northern shrikes, and jays, crows, and ravens.
database: Open WebCamDB (Titans of Industry) Look at what’s popular, browse by country or category (including city views, nature, beaches, harbors, traffic, mountains, wildlife, weather, airports, underwater), or hit “random webcam” and see where it takes you. More than 2,000 active webcams.
essay/satire: I, a French Jewel Thief, Refuse to Rob the Louvre Before Mid-Morning (Leslie Gaar/McSweeney’s) “My typical heist morning routine goes like this: wake at leisure, cigarette, croissant and cafe au lait, read a chapter of Voltaire, stroll along the Seine, browse the Paris flea market, THEN robbery.” Too right (minus the ciggie).
photo essay: Martha Stewart’s Skylands (Jared Barnes/Meristem) Skylands is Martha Stewart’s summer home in Seal Harbor on Mt. Desert Island up the coast of Maine. Barnes visited in July and highlights a woodland path, mosses, foliage plants and evergreens, stonework, a cut-flower garden, tropical plants in containers. He follows the photos with a list of “inspirations and lessons” from Skylands.
photos/interview: Photographer Shares His Images of 1970s New York For the First Time [Interview] (Eva Baron/My Modern Met) The shots are so ordinary and so evocative of the time.
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