I promised in the last post to write about some of the more ephemeral, hard-to-specify values of landscapes such as … More
Author: Erin Despard
Valuing unregulated and neglected landscapes, part 1
Activists and community members who campaigned to have the North Kelvin Meadow officially recognized as a community greenspace were disappointed … More
the small voice of landscape
So the socio-horticultural experiment of the North Kelvin Meadow fern transplant continues, though, sad to say, this overly wet Scottish … More
Regarding the pointless and the photogenic
Usually when we say that we have done or participated in something that was ‘pointless’, it is an expression of … More
Wall ferns: some reflections on a photographic preoccupation
One of my favorite things about Scotland, is the way quite a diversity of plants can be found growing on … More
The biological survey as counterculture
The other week I participated in an informal biological survey of a ruderal ecology slated for destruction sometime over the … More
Viewing and not viewing landscape
Recently I undertook to discover all the documented ‘views’ of an overgrown landscape (both internal and external). Sometimes, the view … More
Seeing Rhododendrons
I am not a photographer – not even in a recreational sense. In fact, when I visit a garden or … More