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.
photo essay: Photos of the Week – January 24, 2026 (Chris Helzer/The Prairie Ecologist) Mostly ice, including seeds in ice, tracks in ice, and ice bubbles, and also the rare Anas carolinensis var. polyethylene. Near Aurora, Nebraska.
essay with photos: Hamamelidaceae, Part 1: Exploring the Witch-hazels of the Arnold Arboretum (Andrew Gapinski)
photo essay: Waterfalls and Wildflowers: Hiking South Africa’s Highest Mountains: About 200 miles from Johannesburg, the Drakensberg region offers a breathtaking landscape of stark ridges and green valleys. (Tim Neville & Ihsaan Haffejee/NYT – gifted) “The park’s visitor center was inside a brown wood-and-rock building that also sold maps and bags of mealie meal, the finely ground maize used to make pap, a dense porridge. I paid the $7 entrance fee, and then drove to the trailhead near Tendele. A man in a winter jacket sat beside a smoldering campfire; he’d watch my car for a tip.”
photo essay: Easter Weekend at Biltmore April 2021 (Jared Barnes/Meristem) Throw-back! Throw-ahead? Wisteria, peonies, tulips, ferns, ginger, and azaleas galore.
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