Modern Home & Garden

Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses. map: The World’s 100 Largest Islands, Side by Side (David Garcia/Vivid Maps). Also, a sortable list of the islands. essay: Blue Notes #19: Is my marriage weird? An investigation (Mari Andrew/Out of the Blue). I’m sorry, this is another paid…

Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses. art/images: Member in the Spotlight: Robin Archer, USA (Art Delivery/The Jealous Curator)  “the loose ‘n lovely work of Minneapolis based artist Robin Archer,” who “grew up in a small town on the midwestern prairie and I am still drawn to wide-open…

Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses. essay: The repetition of things: An experiment (Madeleine Dore/On Things). She walks a park loop every day for a month, noticing and reflecting, and she includes this quote: “I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.” — Thomas…

Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses. article: Everything Barbra Streisand Eats in Her 970-Page Memoir — From peas with sugar to burgers with Brando to guggle-muggle. (Rachel Handler & Matthew Schneier/Vulture). Organised by decade from the 1940s to the 2010s (though 1990s and beyond are…

Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses. essay: A Lonely Man, a Bizarre Billboard, and a Quest for Everlasting Love (Peter Holley/Texas Monthly). Seventy-year-old Albert Gilberti is living in Rutland Vermont, saw Sweetwater once while traveling through the area on a Greyhound bus about 10…

Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses. images: Thread on the beauty of wildlife (James Lucas/Twitter). Scroll through all 30 photos. short essay: Bus stops: Trying for a different angle (Rosecrans Baldwin/Meditations in an Emergency). “… a change of outlook, even a manufactured one, is a…

Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses. article: 5 Projects to Make Your Home Landscape More Eco-Friendly (Cathy Weston/Goldenrod Garden). Plant a native tree; replace bark mulch with living mulch; carve out an island bed for the lawn; add native perennials into existing beds; create a…

Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses. photo essay: Exploring the Isle of Mull: Travels in and around Scotland (Carol Anne Strange/Yonderspell). The first instalment of a travelogue about a visit to Mull, the second largest of the Hebridean islands, reached by car ferry, as well as the…