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.
images: Blotter A-Z (Present /&/ Correct) Scanned images of colourful and whimsical 1960s French blotters that promoted an encyclopaedia company. It’s fun to try to guess why some of the images appear with a particular letter.
article: Backyard Neighbor: The Song Sparrow (Susan Shea/The Outside Story/Northern Woodlands) Solid info on song sparrows and also this: “Ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice made significant contributions to understanding the life histories of song sparrows beginning in 1928. For eight years, Nice carefully observed song sparrows near her home in Ohio. She helped shift the field of ornithology away from collection, description, and studies of distribution, to observing living birds in the wild.”
game: list animals until failure (Vivian Rose/rose.systems) Yep, list animals until you simply cannot list one more animal.
essay with photos: Grow a Winter Garden for the Birds: Planting strategies that will bring birds to your garden, feed them, and offer habitat through the winter months (Gayla Trail/Grow Curious) “The end of winter may seem like the wrong time to think about making a winter garden that feeds the birds, but springtime planning and planting is when we set the wheels in motion for the garden we want to have in the future.” Like planning a layered garden, growing herbaceous plants that offer seeds and seedheads, using dead trees, adding a heated birdbath, augmenting with bird feeders (and keeping them clean).
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