Posts in "ephemeral"
Aug 29 ’07
Filed in ephemeral, plants
Really, twice. First was
at the end of June: I completely forgot to note it here. I took a photo of Erythronium montanum at the top of Larch Mountain outside of Portland. It was a rainy day, which usually doesn't make for good hiking, but we were under a thick understory for most of the hike so it worked. There were vast numbers of these very delicate avalanche lilies waiting for us near the top of the mountain, all covered with droplets. They are quite charismatic.
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Nov 30 ’06
Filed in ephemeral, plants
I can't resist, this is too good to be true: there is such a thing as an
urban cactus. It's a housing project in Rotterdam, based on a cactus. By placing the balconies as the architects did, every resident gets a double-height outdoor space and more sunlight than they would with a typical balcony. I think it's brilliant.
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Aug 30 ’06
Filed in design, ephemeral
When I was a kid my family lived in Geneva for 5 years. It was a formative time in my life, and I still think very fond thoughts of the Swiss. I've always thought of them as a rather typical European country, but smaller, more quaint and with a much more closed and provincial mind-set. However, over the years I've learned that they have a rather interesting sense of art and design, one that is much more prominent than in many countries. Their influnence on graphic design is unmeasurable: take Helvetica, for instance. The Swiss really helped make modernism.
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Feb 13 ’06
Filed in ephemeral, plants
Finally, I've found a great page with photos of non-flowering plants: Dr. Dennis Walker of Humboldt State University has an online gallery of plant images that focusses mostly on non-flowering plants. It has excellent coverage of ferns and conifers, but very little in the flowering plants. The most interesting part is that many of the photos of weird species such as Welwitschia have full plant photos in the native habitats. If you want to see what weird plants can look like, check the Gnetopsida gallery. Via Scott's botanical links.
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