I always look forward to seeing the winning images from Cottage Life Magazine’s photo contest. There’s something special about these images that always make me want to get outside. Good plan….bye for now…off I go.
Caren Alpert’s gallery here brings me these {again} mesmerizing images, taken with a electron microscope camera.Haunting and beautiful, her artists statement she says it best:
“What’s in our food? What’s the difference between a bird’s-eye view of a remote vegetable crop and a microscopic swath from a pineapple leaf? How distinct is a pile of table [...]
I’ve never quite seen anything quite like this site called Inside Insides. It’s created by Andy Ellison (an MRI technologist), who’s been capturing Magnetic Resonance Imaging of food for several years. He apparently uses fruits and vegetables to warm up the machines he works with at the Boston University Medical School. See some of his favourite 3D [...]
As per usual, I’m irrelentlessly back and forth between Toronto and Picton, loving it, and juggling full-on cabin rentals (with truely spectacular guests this month), and the usual food shoots that give the best meaning to the word” teamwork” . The point of a few days this week…were…..
….working with one of my favourite photgraphers, the [...]
I’m looking forward to attending “2nd annual popping of…tada…
“Cornography”, an afternoon of art exploring our twisted relationship with food.This year’s program includes:
a funeral for Bad Food, a music-filled foraging walk, spoken word perfomances, puppetry, visual arts, and hand-on activities. The afternoon will culminate in a DIY Pizza Party where audience members will make their [...]
View a fun panorama taken yesterday at the waterfront at the Nook here , captured by my friend Matt Long, photographer and web designer, and returning cottage renter extraordinaire.
He always makes using programs and apps seem so easy…maybe because he also designs them ; I wish him the best with his move to NY.
In addition to [...]
illustration: Carl Wiens
Welcome Spring!
A big thanks is due to Terry Sprague, my very favourite naturalist and owner of Nature Stuff Tours and Things here in Prince Edward County.
I’m posting his response to me yesterday, when I queried him about the identity of some plants growing prolifically in my front yard. The large, white flowering, medicinal Valerian (that I [...]