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Category Archives: Plants

Poppy Season

Monday, April 2, 2012

This time of year, springtime in California, poppies bloom, and at night, close.

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New Mallet

Friday, March 23, 2012

I’ve been reading up on calendaring indigo dyed fabrics in this great book “Imprints on Cloth : 18 years of Field Research among the Miao People of Guizhou, China.” A common thread between the works of many different communities is a calendaring stage, where the fabric is pounded and smoothed with a big wooden mallet, [...]

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Orchid

Monday, December 12, 2011

Been thinking about orchids this past week. In June, I love wandering around in the woods in Vermont looking for them. There is one stretch of stream in the kingdom that just wanders around and back onto itself, creating little islands and rivulets among the roots of old cedar. There are plants that pop up [...]

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Spore prints

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Irene brought huge amounts of rain to Vermont and the forests are booming with mushrooms. I’ve been wandering and collecting. Leaving the caps on a piece of paper overnight, spores fall into different patterns depending on the structure of the gills.

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Sponsored by : Kristen Brisee

Monday, June 20, 2011

Kristen, I’ve watched the country become greener and greener, changing from chalky grey to mustard, ochre, then hazy blue as I drove east. I am so excited that Vermont is a riot of every type of green, summmmatime! I flew out of Burlington just after I arrived! I am now settled in to a cozy [...]

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