Vintage landscape: ruins

Vintage landscape/enclos*ure: 1935 ruin, Lamar, TX, F. Ratchford, Texas State Archives“Ruins of unidentified concrete home,” Lamar Co., Texas, 1935, probably by Fanny Ratchford, via Texas State Archives Commons on flickr.

Beautiful matrix of wild plants. . . .  Be sure to click the photo and see it enlarged.

The wind that wanders, the weeds wind-shaken,
These remain. . . .

— Algernon Charles Swinburne, from “A Forsaken Garden

Wordless Wednesday: les bovins

Brussels park:enclos*ureA square near Boulevard Anspach, Brussels, in early October.

Brussels park:enclos*ure

3 Brussels park:enclos*ure

Wordless Wednesday: beach spiderlilies

Beach SpiderliliesHymenocallis littoralis, last week in our garden.

(Nearly) Wordless Wednesday: it’s all about those chairs

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Memorial Union Terrace on Lake Mendota at the University of Wisconsin – Madison in October.
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