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Subtitled, "Musings of an artist loosed in a garden," this is a wide-ranging, free-associating blog dedicated to the intersections of gardening, art, photography, landscape, and nature.
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from 8.8.88 to 8.8.08
Although this is not a political blog, it’s a space that acknowledges that you can’t escape the world, even nested within the walled confines of your privategarden spaces. An event that crept ...
one perfect juniper
Saturday night I was at a gathering that included Michael Lundgren, a photographer visiting from Arizona where he teaches and works. He’d brought along a portfolio of prints from his Transfigura...
my newest sage
The number of examples that I have in the garden of the sage genus, Salvia, is growing. The latest addition is a tiny little plant of white sage, Salvia apiana, that I put into a hole in the front yar...
when a hotspot heats up
This morning’s LA Times had a cover story on a groundbreaking study that offered some pretty dire projections for the future of California’s 5,500-plus native plant species should the current glob...
virtual vacations: then
In talking about visiting places virtually it’s easy to get caught up in our totally cool advanced state of technology and forget that this sort of visit-by-proxy has been going on for ages...
virtual vacations: now
Don’t you love it when you talk about two separate things and then something happens that forces an unexpected convergence of the two? Earlier I was doing some Google Street View sightseeing of ...
niagaras of the east and west
Earlier I posted a couple of my tourist pictures of Idaho’s Shoshone Falls, the “Niagara of the West.” I’ve just begun to scan and print the negatives of the large-format work ...
an artist in the garden: Manny Farber
Manny Farber, one of San Diego’s treasured local artists, had a new exhibition at Quint Contemporary Art in La Jolla (actually just a neighborhood of San Diego, but don’t tell that to the ...
yellowstone “wild” flowers
There were a number of spring flowers doing their thing at Yellowstone a couple weeks ago. I saw a patch of bright yellow and took this photo: Yes, dandelions. They were all over. I talked to a range...
teed off
In wildness is the preservation of the world. —Thoreau In a desert, golf is the utter ruin of the known universe. —Me This is the week of the U.S. Open golf tournament here in San Diego. S...
on the road—part 2
Late on the night of Day 2 I roll into Idaho’s Valley of the Moon National Monument. Like Yellowstone it showcases some striking volcanic feature, in this case recent eruptions along the local r...
wild and out of control
All over town here in San Diego you see the black mustard plant, Brassica nigra, now approaching the end of its blooming period. The undulating yellow mounds of it doing its thing are a spectac...
a fake forest
Last time, I wrote about going to the eucalyptus groves at UCSD to look for wildflowers. I’ve always been fascinated with these areas of the campus. Boston ivy growing on brick buildings might d...
into the wild
A couple posts ago I mentioned dichelostemma blooming in the garden and I was thinking that they were probably also blooming wild in the natural spaces around me. I took a lunchtime walk through one o...
convergences
Here’s an image I ran across in the LA Times this morning that I wanted to share: It’s a painting entitled “The Bridge” by Swedish painter Tommy Hilding in his current Urban Vi...
gardens, phonebooths, poetics and old maids
I’ve been rereading The Poetics of Gardens, a wonderful, witty, thoughtful book by architect Charles Moore, landscape architect William Turnbull and theorist William J. Mitchell. In two places i...
the mojave phonebooth: part 2, i told you it was weird
[ continued from part 1 ] My second trip to the Mojave Phonebooth was a few years later when I was leading a photography trip for some fellow photography geeks with the local Sierra Club chapter. My t...