Brian Rose’s website, the subject of yesterday’s post, also features his photos of the Berlin Wall and its environs before, during, and after its fall. He writes about the experience of place in Berlin, and for anyone whose knowledge of the Wall is limited (mine was derived mainly from watching Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire [...]
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Then he took Berlin
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Miscellaneous, Places, Walls, What we're thinking, tagged Berlin Wall, Brian Rose on March 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
First he took Manhattan…
Posted in Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, Places, What we're thinking, tagged Brian Rose, New York landscape on March 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
A friend recently sent me a link to the website of Brian Rose, a New York photographer. Mr. Rose’s work is worth a look (or two or three); his photo series called New York Primeval chronicles his exploration of ‘wild’ parts of NYC. Knowing that Manhattan, at least, has been invaded with all sorts of [...]
Sign
Posted in Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, Plants on March 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
As I was driving down a Cambridge street last Tuesday this scene caught my eye. My heartfelt good wishes and thanks to whatever forward-thinking kind soul who planted these crocus bulbs and let them naturalize through the lawn; after a long and cold and grey winter they were balm for the eyes. Apologies for the [...]
It’s that season
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Plants, What we're thinking, tagged city plantings, Plants, urban plantings on March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last week a friend mentioned seeing a yellow-flowering shrub on the VFW Parkway in Boston. It reminded me of the show of Hamamelis that used to appear outside of the Harvard Business School’s Baker Library back in the early 80s; when I first saw it (this was a few years before I became a landscape [...]
Deskside greenery
Posted in Biodiversity and Biophilia, Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, Plants, What we're thinking, Working Landscape, tagged Plants on February 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Another grey and cold day in a long, cold month. Going to my desk and working is a good antidote to the gloominess, especially when the Cattleya next to my drawing board blooms (as it did last fall), or the Ripsalis in the window each January reliably turns from a mop of green string into [...]
Deskside landscape
Posted in Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, What we're thinking, Working Landscape, tagged cartoons, humor, landscape architects at work on February 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Years ago, a friend lent me a copy of this originally tiny ad from Nature magazine; clearly, it had already been copied and enlarged quite a few times before I got a copy of the friend’s copy. I keep it next to my desk, sometimes for encouragement, sometimes for a laugh. When a different mood [...]
Landscape Architecture winter article
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Miscellaneous, What we're thinking, Working Landscape on February 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Every month Landscape Architecture Magazine arrives in the mailbox, and some months I look through it quickly for pieces that catch my eye. Other months it has to go on the stack of periodicals next to my desk until I can pick it up on a slow day. The 2009 series on field sketching was [...]
Sweep
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Miscellaneous on February 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
‘Balnahard Bay, Colonsay’ by Bryan Dickinson 1 September 2009 “Noticed the lines that the Marram grass was drawing in the wind…. Rain shower just as we were finishing, had to run for cover.” Piggybacking on your post, Toby, here’s another image from the same V & A exhibit; maybe two photos will compel even more [...]
Herbie
Posted in Deb's posts, Plant management, Plants, What we're thinking, tagged engage with landscape, tree planting, trees on January 25, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I just wrote a post on Herbie, the champion American elm in Yarmouth, Maine, that was taken down last week after a life that spanned more than two centuries. The post, at Taking Place In The Trees, included several photos I took the day before Herbie came down. In his prime, Herbie was the largest [...]
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