Green

I have been so bad at even looking at my photos, let alone dealing with them. These are from a weekend away a month or so ago. Walking in the Otways, breathing good air, taking garden notes. Wood, and trees and funghi. Lichen, moss and mistletoe.

So long ago now.

Sad face. Some greens for a healthy weekend. A flooded Mossman Gorge. A special mossy rock. The possibility of a cassowary. And a parasitic jungle dweller/dwelling.

The grass is greener

Tree friends

Green Thumbs

On Saturday I dropped into Y3K for a look at James Deutsher's 'Horoscope Ecologies'. I particularly love the first room which is maybe a separate exhibition entitled 'We Are Building A Civilized Space Here', though I remain unenlightened as to whether he is solely responsible for it. Whatever. Plants make us happy. And these ones are nurtured in delicate constructions dividing the space and bringing to mind my idea of the room division in the Headmasters House of The Moms in 'Infinite Jest'. Phew. Mouthful. That reference might be the opposite of the Wellness Architecture the catalogue essay speaks of as 'The Man Himself' commits grizzly suicide by putting his head in a microwave there.
Sorry everybody, random.

Back on topic, I've been tossing around ideas for more growing art projects and nurturing my own wall of hanging plants so I know of the sense of wellbeing they bring. Go see!

terrariums

New flagon garden from the glühwein party, african violets, cheetah in the moss and special moss all the way from Tasmania. These little gardens are making me happy.

Green Town

Hi. Just had to share this little beggar with you. Outside Newtown SC is a little cabinet of plants, Green Town, created by clever Sarah Parkes of Small Town jewelery fame. I would've taken this fence sitter home if I had the money on me.

Moss

This morning I washed up these giant coffee jars I got from the op-shop yesterday. I then filled them with rocks and dirt and went out the back to scratch up some moss to cultivate in my pretty new terrarium, after the surprising success and ease of the last one.

This is what I made.



Now weirdly, I checked my email this afternoon and threethousand feature this.

Weird no? The SAME JAR and everything. Talk about the Zeitgeist.

And yes that is the foot of a hairy child in the background. He fits right in.

It's alive!

And it's flowering. I made this terrarium at the start of the year, I was experimenting for a project, trying to grow moss. It grew!
It's African Violets, which remind me of my grandpa and his greenhouse, and I can't believe I found this flower today by the window in the corner of my studio. It made me happy. Maybe I'll make more.



I googled terrariums and found this post - recipe, and have since been a fan of Emerson Merrick and An Apple a Day.
Now - to cultivate more moss in a prettier fashion. Hmmm.

too faraway

Some pictures to green up your tuesday. From a walk in the scrub with my father. Maybe a month ago. Seems like a longer time. Time flys.

gold light

Or; some of the reasons why I love to go home...

some greens

I have been given a new camera (spoilt/lucky) so have been taking more photos again. I am going to North Qld tomorrow. Rejoice. Family, warmth and holidays. I will probably take a million photos while I am away. But til then, here are some Melbourne indoor greens, when it's all Autumn orange and grey outside. Very good for you.

getting fresh

Mayday officially welcomed the sunshine, and it's here. The city has been transformed over the last few weeks, so lush and new and fresh. It's green & growing from every crevice and piece of wasteland. Bleak streets are transformed into leafy, friendly boulevards, crammed with tables and people... It's looking lively.

For some quiet we walked in the woods today, wandering around Schlactensee... Picnicking, hunting for mushrooms & building up the courage to go swimming in the lake, next time...

We also saw lots of people walking their dogs with boat shoes & cashmere sweaters draped casually across their shoulders... We didn't raise an eyebrow with paper hats, sticks of power and my hobo picnic bundle.