I promised in the last post to write about some of the more ephemeral, hard-to-specify values of landscapes such as…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Seeing Rhododendrons
I am not a photographer – not even in a recreational sense. In fact, when I visit a garden or…