Celebrating the big five-oh this weekend. What better way than with the best Talking Heads cover ever (Once In A Lifetime):
For the purist, the original video:
The big five-oh (same as it every was)
Category: Art
Garden art, PhotoShopped images, etc.
‘Tree Sculpture’ Burns in Collegetown Fire
See Cornell Daily Sun article. Apparently, damage was minor.
Wankers.
More on this installation. Keep following the links back to my first post to see why I’m so emotionally attached to this work.
Update: Patrick sent me a link to this short audio slide show of his installation in Bluffton, S.C.
6 of 1 in the snow (again)
I shot Patrick Dougherty’s sculpture in the snow once before. Â I was hoping that with the heavy wet stuff we got today, they’d be completely enclosed — like two-story igloos. Â But by the time I got down there at lunch today, Collegetown had warmed up and the snow was starting to melt. Â Still, the coating on the locust branches is pretty impressive, and the snow does give the work a different feel.
Pollination stamps
USPS news release: WASHINGTON — The nation’s capital was abuzz with excitement today when the U.S. Postal Service unveiled four beautiful Pollination stamps at the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC) Symposium. The stamps, which will be released next summer, consist of four images arranged in two alternate and interlocking patterns. The intricate design of these beautiful stamps emphasizes the ecological relationship between pollinators and plants and suggests the biodiversity necessary to ensure the viability of that relationship.
According to Science Daily, crop artist Stan Herd “will take an image from one “Pollinator†stamp — the Southern dogface butterfly — and create a vast facsimile at Pendleton’s Country Market, a family farm between Kansas City and Lawrence. The image will be best viewed aerially from a nearby silo or an aircraft. Herd’s immense stamp reproduction is to incorporate plants that conservationists urge for use in backyard butterfly gardens.”
April Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day
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For more about this technique, see Scanning Flowers.
With the cold weather this week, the garden has been in a state of suspended animation. No daffodils or tulips yet, though the former are budding and the the latter did add some leaf.
Small, low-growing spring ephemerals are about all that’s flowering. Various iris are past their prime, most having been damaged by temps in the teens. (Same goes for crocus.) Snowdrops are also past their prime on the south side, but in their prime on the north side of the house. Hellebores are peaking. Pulmonaria, primula and corydalis are coming on. Cyclamen continue to bloom, as they have most of the winter. Coltsfoot flowers show up here and there. Willows are still putting on a show.
This time of the year, foliage adds to the display. Old and new heuchera leaves. Lamium. Scotch thistle. Emerging sedums.
It was nice to do a little garden clean-up today. The soil is still a little on the wet side. Now I’ll say good-bye to the ground for awhile, what with a foot of snow predicted for Sunday and Monday.