We met up at fmg on Tuesday, as we have all summer. We headed back to the recreation of the farm from Lena’s childhood and planned on taking a back route over to the Japanese Garden, but there was work going on in that area, so it was gated off. Instead we took a boardwalk…
Category: Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park
24 SSPC 50 — (2nd week) White Dew (Sept 7-22) Hakuro 白露 — “There’s no place like home.”*
“There’s no place like home” Farm hand pump trickleswater into livestock trough,its clarity is interrupted onlyby textured superficiality. Water into livestock troughserves as mirror and magnifierfor still, swimming pool blue. Its clarity is interrupted onlyby patched seam, goldenrod reflections,and a single milkweed puff. By textured superficiality,benefactor’s childhood home returns, withsmooth, odorless animal sculptures. *Title taken…
Doodads over past (busy) week
On Monday, a group of 8 of us, 6 adults and 2 kids, drove out to the farmer’s market I frequent, where a playground and farm animal petting area has been added over the summer. The playground included a giant tractor tire that has been made into a sandbox, with included farm equipment trucks to…
Friday Favorite Feature 41 — fmg inside
These pics were all taken on 073024. As I was driving to GR, son texted that an accident on 96 had a major traffic snarl, so I exited at Alpine to Leonard and Leonard to East Beltline. It took close to an hour longer to get there with so much traffic climbing off the highway…
dVerse MTB/Form — Ballata — Summer Water
summer water moves dynamicsun-warmed from spring’s thawobedient to seasoned lawscompared to winter blues, it’s manicsummer water moves dynamic sheeting boulders as it falls,tinkling streamlets into pondsbuoys fish, all things aquaticsummer water moves dynamic light plays over surface, drawsmirrored ripples worth applauseintegral to soul’s choreographicsummer water moves dynamic A poem about “summer water” could get quite…
24 SSPC 44 — (1st week) Sweltering Heat (0722 – 0806) Taisho 大暑 — Dodoitsu series
lotus stem topples like tree translucence rests on water bridge between heaven and earth dragonfly drowses joe pye and bee balm arise, fragrantly mesmerizing pollinator receptors to twitching magnets red hot sun plays hide and seek after surprise thunderstorm glimpse grandfather behind pine coolly run away kigo used: dragonfly drowses, full blossoming wildflowers, hot red…
Paul Villinski: Flight Patterns
Was able to take a quick look at Paul Villinski’s exhibit, “Flight Patterns” at fmg on Tuesday. The plane was fabulous, but what I wanted to see close up was the above piece of work. I could see myself putting these on my back or using as a headdress. Looks way more impressive (you may…
Tao Talk 