Saturday, 3 May 2008
Last week, we were out for a late-evening walk as dark was closing in and found these little Mary Janes upended on adjacent plastic fence-pickets.
I was going to do a light-hearted post with a close-up of a minty drink, but this seems more appropriate.
Friday, 2 May 2008
Do you think of ancient objects as artwork rather divorced from their cultural context, or as information-impregnated windows into the past? From which paradigm do they obtain their value?
Apparently, although he takes his salary from an art museum which espouses the first, James Cuno* actually believes the latter.
The earliest surviving printed document is known as the Diamond Sutra. It dates to AD 868 and is a Chinese translation of a Sanskrit Buddist text. It was printed using carved wood blocks, and the separate pages were then stitched together. Although it was found in northwest China, the British Library controls it.
Or owns it, depending on your perspective….
* Cuno’s new book is Who Owns Antiquity?
Thursday, 1 May 2008
I don’t know the mosses and don’t have an ID book for them. This resembles the rock cap moss (try propagating with a sugar mixture).
Here’s a plan: use moss instead of grass for a tidy ground cover in your yard (garden if you’re in Britain).
I suspect it’s just a bit too hot/dry in our wee yard ecosystem to support moss except in the very shady places—where it’s already established.
I’ve also heard of using thyme (here, for example), which also smells great when you take a stroll.