I love this quiet photo: “Porch of old house at Monroe St., Mobile[, Alabama],” taken November 4, 1941, by Charles W. Cushman.
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Miscellany
This post on Gardenista is about houses painted black, but I like the way all of them are incorporated into their natural landscapes.
And GardenHistoryGirl has an interesting post on what we mean when we talk about ‘natural’ and “beautiful nature.”
From her post, I learned that you can read the entire book The Wild Garden by William Robinson online here at Google Books.
Please take a look at View from Federal Twist’s fall photos of the Federal Twist garden — just gorgeous.
Jean’s Garden explains here why your favorite plant may have had one name last year and has another today.
Kigali has gone into billboards in a big way in the last few years. I wonder if it may eventually be building these too (see here too).
Zoe Tilley Poster of Pearled Earth is now selling her beautiful illustrations at her new Etsy shop here.
Francophiles can catch up on gardening news from France at Our Grumpy Gardener, a blog of French News Online. If you’ve already starting to think about Christmas, the blog Réparons & Re-Parons Noël has good ideas for handmade decorations.
If you would like to see more of the photographs of Charles W. Cushman, click here for a series of images of New York City in the early 1940s.
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