Descriptions at The Year. A quick look at images from other quarter days – winter solstice, XQ1, spring equinox, XQ2, summer solstice, XQ3, XQ4.
Author: gs
Inle still
The cultivated lake-gardens of Inle is the first in a series on ‘water-fields’ on the new Living Field web site. See Water-field.
Fiberoptic 2
Reflection in water of bamboo matting on the wall of a stilt house, Inle Lake, Burma (Myanmar) 2014. ….. first you grow your bamboo, then cut it into near-flat strips, then weave it into a tough fabric, then fix it to wooden or bamboo poles to form a screen or wall … on a house, built on bamboo poles, driven into the mud of a lake. See also Fiberoptic … Fiberoptic 3 …
Night harvesting
Blue feast
Flower head of chicory (Cichorium intybus) with four insects, the small one perhaps grazing pollen, the others going for the rich centre and trampling the (male) pollen bearing anthers held bifurcating on thin blue-lined tubes and curling inwards like muscle-flexing stick-men
… on an organic farm, East Lothian, 15 August 2014 (Image by Squire).
Ripe wheat
No more cuddly thistle
XQ3 early August
Descriptions at The Year. For a quick look at images around the other quarter days and cross quarter days – winter solstice, XQ1, spring equinox, XQ2, summer solstice, autumn equinox, XQ4.
Opium poppy by Jean Duncan
For the 10-year celebration, Jean spent time in the Garden looking and sketching, assembling material for teaching and an ebook. The opium poppies Papaver somniferum were a fine sight, but short-lived, this warm year. See also … Jean Duncan’s page, Metamorphosis, the garden’s Medicinals page.
Games opening
So what’t that white flower with the insect got to do with it? See Hairy teacake.