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

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

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,

From Libby Cerullo, of Pennsylvania Martha Ressler shared her blog of April 21 with me–in which I am noted as a helper for the planting of her and Jay’s legacy forest.  It was a delightful experience to get out of the house and work in the dirt! I also enjoyed

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.

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

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

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.