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.
poems: A selection of W.S. Merwin’s poems (The Merwin Conservancy) sometimes you just need to read a poem by Merwin … I happened on Completion today and it was good.
article: Love Island: Rare berry bonanza spurs Kākāpō baby boom A massive bloom of rimu berries fueled a mating surge among the world’s heaviest (and strangest) parrots (Elizabeth Anne Brown/SciAm) look at them!
book list: Books that feel like the best parts of life (Lucy Fuggle/Life with Books) I’ve read and loved some of the books on the list and now I want to re-read all the Barbara Pym books and read The Lost Soul by Olga Tokarczuk & Joanna Concejo, The Walking Man by Jiro Taniguchi, and Four Seasons in Japan by Nick Bradley (the latter of which reminds me that I want to re-read Pico Iyer’s Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells).
article: Gobbling and Strutting: Wild Turkey Mating Season (Emily Haynes/The Outside Story/Northern Woodlands) “‘Gobbling’s kind of a long-range advertising of [the males’] presence and then strutting’s kind of the short-range signaling of soliciting a breeding opportunity.’”
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