Mary’s Place
Gardens, parks and landscapes was very representational to me and it took me some time to get my groove on what I was making. My previous piece was about a sculpture park in Colorado so it felt like I had already made this piece. Anyway I decided to make a
2-7 Martha Ressler, Follow the Path
The prompt Gardens, Parks and Greenspaces gave me an idea right away. I wanted to focus on “pathways.” Your path greatly influences how you experience a green space. When we first moved onto our rural land 6 years ago, my husband cut a path to my sister-in-law’s house next door.
Fireflies Glow In Japan Summer Night
Jul 30 2020 Mikiko Takase Japan’s hot and humid summer nights offer a rare opportunity to view twinkling fireflies at the edge of small streams. These waters meander through the dark green leaves of the woodlands. “Here’s a light, here’s a light,” a visitor exclaims, “what a beautiful sight.” Fireflies
The Wetlands
Terry Grant My turn to choose the prompt. I had several ideas, but kept coming back to things that make my community so special to me. It is a suburb of a large city and it all feels like my home–the suburbs, the countryside and the city itself and when
Bliss in the rectangle
Doerte-Ina Liebing (40″x23,62″) Cotton hand dyed, breakdown-printing, screen-printing, machine quilting In Germany many people (more than one million allotments) lease a fenced-in piece of land, called a Schrebergarten (allotment). These allotments are intend to serve the recreational need for nature, to enable the townspeople to grow fruit and vegetables. You
Nurturing Seeds
The prompt “Garden, Parks and Green Spaces” hooked me right on the first word: garden. I live in a small town of 5000 people in a rural area in Nova Scotia, Canada. We are surrounded by lots of green spaces, woods, beaches and beautiful rolling hills. There are some parks
Hong Kong Park
The importance of calming green spaces amid the hectic chaos that is Hong Kong.
Green Buildings
While green spaces are slowly (or is that quickly) disappearing from our daily lives, there are some intrepid architects and planners trying to incorporate green spaces in our buildings. Walls of greenery are appearing in the most unlikely places as well as forming cascading walls disguising concrete slabs. Green buildings
Blue space!
Community Green spaces Karol Kusmaul I recently purchased an art quilt from Pamela Allen of Canada. Its title is ‘Five Sheep and Three Big Fish’. She explained, “As I was raised a poor inner city kid, I always wanted to be in the country! I guess that’s why I seem
Communities need Greenspaces
The overarching theme of our prompts is Community. For June and July we are working on the prompt Gardens, Parks, and Greenspaces. When I travel, I love to visit gardens and arboretums in the places I visit. The carefully curated plant selections can be very inspirational. I usually take mental