natural cycles

keeping your dead tree healthy

by James
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There’s this dead tree outside my weekday office. A crew has been working on it for the last two weeks. It’s one of three very dead trees that make up an 1986 installation by Terry Allen. Set in an area… Read More »keeping your dead tree healthy

"away from the soft pornography of the flower"

by James
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The quote in the title is from a statement by Charles Waldheim about the work of landscape designer Piet Oudolf in a January 31 article in the New York Times, “A landscape in winter, dying heroically.” (I ran across this… Read More »"away from the soft pornography of the flower"