It's that time of year when my thoughts turn to... vegetables ( Read more... )

Last Thursday, my adv. design class got to walk around the Fleming Garden with their gardener Luke Haas. This garden is a garden of all California natives, but it is striking because it's neither ugly nor boring. So many native gardens are xeriscaped and done for survival and low maintenance. This garden is full of unique and fantastic species ( Read more... )

Opening a book from 1505 and flipping to the illustration of the mandrake, complete with a female figure with long flowing hair for the root. Comparing knot gardens with Italian gardens and getting it. Feeling books with pages like skin ( Read more... )