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
Allotments (“Schrebergärten”)
In Europe, but especially in Germany, you can lease a fenced-in piece of land called a Schrebergarten (allotment). These gardens, managed by associations and leased by its members, is a fenced-in piece of land, usually containing a small structure and arbor. These allotments are intended to serve the recreational need for nature,
Working Together
The prompt “Cooperation and Sharing” immediately made me think of my visit to Loveland, Colorado last year. I was staying with my good friend, Mary McCauley, in Fort Collins, when Mary took me to the park on the way to visit her amazing Textile Art Group. We walked around a
Creating green
Recently I moved to a new house. At least, it was new for me. But it was also someone else’s old house with their old garden. And since green spaces need a green thumb I guess that’s not what they had. Because all of the green present was artificial grass.
A lot greener than I thought
When the latest prompt “Gardens, Parks, Green spaces” was announced I thought immediately of the beautiful gardens at Lincoln University in New Zealand (where I was working recently) and how the whole campus is beautiful. This photo was taken in our spring and was a delight to walk through each
Generosity Forest, Martha Ressler 2-6
My husband and I had planned a big project of creating a forest on two of our acres, meeting with our county forester, researching the best species of trees to plant, buying equipment etc. Then at the beginning of April, when our 700 seedlings were delivered, simultaneously came the “stay
Park in the city
Covid 19″s tremendous impact has changed our daily lives a lot.Meeting and traveling are also very limited. So I often go to the park near my home. I usually take a walk or exercise there.A relatively large river called ” Han river” flows along the side of the park.While I
One World
While thinking about the prompt Connecting & Sharing, I stumbled upon the words of Thích Nhất Hạnh. You can read more about that here. Thích Nhất Hạnh writes about Interbeing—a Buddhist philosophy about the interconnection of all things. As the world struggles to comprehend what Covid-19 means for our future,
New Prompt: Gardens, Parks and Green Spaces
While a community is made up of individuals, a community is usually also a physical space, inhabited by those individuals. This space can shape the character of a community in positive and negative ways and contributes greatly to the sense of safety, comfort, health and well-being of the community members.