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.
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
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
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,
Common Intersections
Doerte-Ina Liebing 40” x 25,6” (hand-dyed Cotton, breakdown printing, machine quilting) A set is a combination of different objects to form a whole. The objects that belong to a set are called the elements (X) of the set. The set is one of the most important and fundamental concepts in