Link roundup: Cloud Studies, Nabokov’s blues, beech trees and other curiosities
I share a lot of links on Facebook. This is some of what I’ve shared since last Monday, with the exception of links to new posts on qarrtsiluni, Moving Poems, Woodrat Photoblog, The Morning Porch, and...
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The New York Times: “When Democracy Weakens” Bob Herbert wishes Americans would take a cue from the Egyptians. NPR: “An Immigrant’s Quest For Identity In The ‘Open City’” I have been reading the...
View ArticleLink roundup: Blog carnivals, revolutions, and remnants from the Ice Age
tasting rhubarb: >Language >Place Blog Carnival – Edition 4 I don’t know why it took me so long to participate in this blog carnival, founded by the indefatigable web publisher Dorothee Lang, but...
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(K)nots
With some trees, the knotholes are the last things to go. You can find them staring up from the ground, eye sockets that never belonged to a skull. It makes sense that trees would grow their hardest...
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local ecologist: Festival of the Trees #58 Georgia Silvera Seamans’ third stint hosting the monthly blog carnival for all things arboreal, showing just how dedicated some tree bloggers can be! One...
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Austin Kleon: “How to Steal Like an Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me)” I usually hate advice posts, but this one is gold. For example: There was a video going around the internet last year of...
View ArticleFestival of the Trees returns to Via Negativa on July 1
The world’s longest-running — and probably only — blog carnival devoted to all things arboreal, the Festival of the Trees, turns five next month. Its very first edition appeared on July 1, 2006 right...
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Festival of the Trees 61: new discoveries
Welcome to the fifth anniversary edition of the Festival of the Trees! Five years might seem like a long time on the internet, but for a tree, at least here in Pennsylvania, it’s barely enough time to...
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The driveway walnut tree
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, I decided to shoot some pictures of the black walnut tree in question. It had rained off and on, but the sun came out while I was shooting, making everything glow...
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Farewell, Festival of the Trees. Hello, Treeblogging.com.
On Thursday I had the melancholy task of compiling and posting the final edition (#66) of the Festival of the Trees, a monthly blog carnival I co-founded back in June 2006; the first edition appeared...
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