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.
user modification: XKCD reading modes (Randall Munroe/XKCD) “an extra layer of playfulness” has been added to XKCD (if you’re not familiar, it’s “a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language”) with 20 reading modes including stained glass, hacker, antipodes, 3D, boat, and lighter mode.
photos essay/recipes: An Ode to Magnolia – 2026: Notes on Culinary Usage (Sally Gurteen/Celia, by Sally Gurteen) My goodness, the ways the sumptuous magnolia can be ingested and imbibed!
poem explication: What Happens When We Die? This Poem Has Thoughts. A.O. Scott contemplates the great unknown in Wallace Stevens’s “Of Mere Being” (NYT-gifted link) A great poem (and poet) and a good explication.
article: Randomly Selected Botanical Terms: Tepals (Awkward Botany) It’s complicated, and you’re four paragraphs in before you find out what a tepal even sn, but this a good time to be looking for them, as spring bulbs emerge
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