I haven’t had time to master all the features of zazzle.com yet. Not sure that I’d want to make a living off zazzle sales. But if you’ve ever thought of making a few calendars or notecards from you images, it’s worth a try.
Update: Archived video coming to WishingWell soon.
Looks like the Ithaca Journal is livestreaming tonight’s Shaleshock Benefit concert. (More properly, the Life is Water, A Benefit Concert to Defend the Finger Lakes Against Unsafe Gas Drilling, featuring Local superstars Sim Redmond Band, The Horseflies and Donna the Buffalo.) They’re doing soundchecks now (~4:30). But it should be rockin’ later on.
For you folks who aren’t from around these parts. This is a fundraiser for the major environmental issue facing us here in the Finger Lakes and surrounding area. We sit atop the Marcellus Shale — one of the biggest deposits of natural gas left in the country. But the methods they want to use to extract it ‘economically’ put our rich water resources at risk.
Hey. It’s gray here. But at least we’ve got abundant, clean water. At least for now.
Visit Shaleshock.org for more authoritative info on the subject. And enjoy the concert.
Actually, Ellis Hollow has pretty much deteriorated into a garden photo blog. I usually let the pictures do the talking, as it’s way harder to bullshit with images. Explore the categories, please, if you’re looking for politics or other topics. They’re just fewer and farther between these days.
Oh, and I could use a few Farmville neighbors, if any of you are playing.
We lost Lucas Wooster, a dear friend and member of the greater horticulture family at Cornell, who died unexpectedly Sunday.
Lucas was finishing up his PhD. He was working on developing drought-tolerant maples that could thrive under tough urban environments. I worked most directly with him as a key person in the development of the Woody Plants Database website at Cornell. But where I really got to know him and see him at his best was in his role as a teaching assistant in the ‘Creating the Urban Eden’ course taught by Nina Bassuk and Peter Trowbridge.
The course is essentially a woody plant materials course, but oh so much more. Every year student work out a design for an area on campus and then install the planting. It’s hands-on learning at it’s best. And every spring, I’m out there with my camera trying to capture what I think is the best thing that ever came to the Cornell campus.
So I shouldn’t have been surprised that when Nina asked me to pull together some pictures of Lucas for his memorial service that I had scores of them that I really didn’t remember taking. But there he is in his element, teaching the next generation how to plant and care for trees. Lucas planting. Lucas shoveling mulch. Lucas chuckling at the students playing hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. And the only one with the sense to drink Guiness instead of green beer on St. Patrick’s Day.
Lucas was funny. He was smart. He worked hard but never took himself or his work too seriously. We miss him terribly.
Last week, I received the first hard copy of my new bloom day scan calendar. I was so impressed with the quality of the printing that I pulled together a second calendar of photos.
