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Day 126 • Something Beautiful 2022: Green Wizard Coneflower
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. The hunt for unusual additions to the flower gardens is never ending. An adventure. Constantly being amazed at new species, varieties, hybrids. Today, the big surprise were these magnificent Green Wizard Coneflowers. Spectacular!
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Day 125 • Something Beautiful 2022: Giant lilies
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. Obviously, gardens are still on my mind as is the hunt for unusual plants with which to populate them. That search led me to these extraordinary giant lily pads in Shuangxi Park and Chinese Garden…
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Day 124 • Something Beautiful 2022: Seeking light
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. While wandering the web, I found this. A tree growing in an abandoned silo. Skipping metaphysics, it is a stellar image and amazingly salient given the past months of grey. The unity of sun loving…
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Day 123 • Something Beautiful 2022: Labor’s fruit
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. Almost a 12 hour day in the Villa Lucci flower gardens yesterday working to the Beatles’ Abbey Road. A good chunk splitting lilies to transplant on a steep slope on the top of the north…
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Day 122 • Something Beautiful 2022: Tulle-like petals
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. I very nearly baled on today’s image. An overzealous day in the garden and I am sore, tired, and ready for a sleep of utter abandon. But the thought of the garden that emerged from…
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Day 121 • Something Beautiful 2022: Stony impressions of the zinnia
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. After finding Lee Krasner’s table yesterday, I had a renewed and elevated interest in mosaics. So much so, that I was moved at 9:30pm see what might inspire me in sorting two boxes of glass…
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Day 120 • Something Beautiful 2022: Lee’s table
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. For over a year, I’ve been reading and rereading chapters of Mary Gabriel’s Ninth Street Women — Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That…
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Day 119 • Something Beautiful 2022: A wisteria wonder
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. The villa gardens go through something of a minor transformation each year. I look at what comes up, what didn’t, and consider what can be moved, removed, and added to improve the design and continuity…
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Day 118 • Something Beautiful 2022: A sublime weakness
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. At the farm in LaFox, Illinois where I grew up was a grand garden of romantic, old-fashioned flowers — peonies, vintage irises, lilies of the valley, ostrich fern, hollyhocks, and a singular statuesque french lilac…
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Day 117 • Something Beautiful 2022: The splendid calla
Something Beautiful is the resurrection of a 2014 initiative to find a visual feast for each day of the year. Three full days of garden work and the villa flower gardens are starting to show their glory. The hunt for lovely and exotic additions now occupies my outings. Friday I found yellow-orange and purple calla…