a garden hero

It's Alys Fowler!

farmhouse chic

The requisite once every decade housefrog sports shot. 

A painter's thoughts:

Vivianite: Your use of motion, light and color is truly stunning, how did you invent or learn your technique?

Alex Kanevsky: I didn’t really invent or learn it as a technique. I am a slow learner, so it developed over a long time. I am also fairly slow when it comes to actual painting. Slow but impatient. That can be a problem, but over time I figured out how to turn this contradiction into my own way of working. I can’t do slow and methodical accumulation painting: I get bored with careful, planned sort of activity. I also depend on freshness of perception, what zen-buddists call “beginner’s mind”. That is difficult to sustain over a long period. After a while you are just not a beginner. So I work fast, trying to hit the right note every time. That is nearly impossible, so I constantly fail. But I keep coming back to a painting. It accumulates layers, each one - more or lass a complete painting. Complete but failed. The layers are sort of like Swiss cheese - they have holes through which in right places you can see the previous layers. Eventually there are enough of “good holes” and also, because of all the repeated attempts, I manage to do a good top layer. And then I have a painting that has enough intensity in every passage to satisfy me. Then it is done.

via http://www.vivianite.net/alex-kanevsky

a fresh house

via design sponge
http://gallery.apartmenttherapy.com/photo/la-danielleclemenzahousetour-bethanynauert/item/265429

A great white: Benjamin Moore's Super White!

juice mix

beets freshly squeezed with 3 oz ginger, kale, green apple, lemon, and spinach.

shorn sheep

via a great blog:

http://aervilhacorderosa.com/

a productive garden

via no penny for them

the fight against potatoes rages on

This link to a study on the impact of different foods on weight loss indicated that some foods that are fried such as potatoes lead to weight gain, while other high fat foods such as dairy and nuts actually lead to weight loss.





http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/you-dont-want-fries-with-that/2011/06/22/AGXBwHgH_graphic.html

new concept: Dynamic Accumulators

We've all heard about the nitrogen fixing powers of our legume friends. This was a miracle concept--a plant that harvests nutrients from the dirt and air so other plants can use it? Nuh uh. Well, maybe there's one family of plants that does that, but more? Yes, there are other plants that are good at making more nutrients available in the soil. Their name: dynamic accumulators. wow

hollyhocks!

One of my favorite summer flowers! 

Perhaps this is the rug that's been missing from your life?

via esalerugs.com

studio by design

via remodelista

More garden!

Garden details

UCAP

via teen angster

The bread that goes "bump" in the oven

Pain de Mie

a great blog

Hi,

I just found this blog. It's a back to the land type operation and these folks are growing bees and nectarine trees and are investigating the cleansing powers of mushrooms. Right up my alley. Recently, I was wondering if you could clean feed lot waste with mushrooms.

http://www.waldeneffect.org

Get your blog back with an all fruit and veg lunch