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: Greening Up (Allen Norcross/New Hampshire Garden Solutions) If you want to see and learn something about almost every native plant (tree, shrub, ephemeral, etc.) plus a couple of birds and a few non-native plants currently enlivening the southern New Hampshire forests and wetlands, check this out.
essay: Gastrodome: J Is For Jam and Jelly (Timothy Burke/Eight by Seven) I’m with him on preferring jam to jelly, but please neither on my toast or in most sauces or savory dishes (fruit salad and trifle, yes!).
article: Consider the Greenland Shark (Katherine Rundell/London Review of Books) When Shakespeare was writing in the early 1600s, “a Greenland shark who is still alive today swam untroubled through the waters of the northern seas. Its parents would have been old enough to have lived alongside Dante; its great-great-grandparents alongside Julius Caesar. For thousands of years Greenland sharks have swum in silence, as above them the world has burned, rebuilt, burned again.” Learn more about this “not obviously beautiful” creature at the link (like that “it takes 150 years for a female to be ready to breed”).
participatory art project: Liminal Bingo (Pat Perry) Send in your photos taken in response to the bingo card, which includes such sights as blurry leaf under transmission lines, what is religion doing way out here, a roadside portal, and (my favourite) built by people but nature is winning.
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