Wallpaper: Like a Tattoo for Your Walls

...w wallpaper so here you go. It’s William Morris’ popular pattern known as “Fruit,” first produced in 1864 and still available in a variety of color combinations. There’s also a version with birds (put a bird on it!), but Kelly thought the bird-less version would look less repetitious. We also installed Morris’ “Daisy” wallpaper in our breakfast nook. “Daisy” is the first wallpaper that Morris manufactured and it’s inspired by the illustrations in...

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May the Work I’ve Done Speak for Me

...ps or fret about insurance. He speaks often of addressing the “low hanging fruit” in our communities, things like planting a garden, mulch and compost. Many years ago he banished paper and plastic plates from the church’s kitchen, installing a commercial dishwasher and accumulating a supply of ceramic and metal utensils. Along with Kelly, he’s also the survivor of a harrowing aortic dissection. There are a number of lessons to take from Fr. Peter’...

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Saturday Tweets: Yuri Gagarin Pesach KonMari, Stick Shifting and a Procedurally Generated Infinite CVS Receipt

...ood and found that the app had changed the name of her community from the ‘Fruit Belt’ to something called ‘Medical Park.’” https://t.co/LSxYmKLpWK — david a banks (@DA_Banks) March 25, 2019 There’s a unified problem: sprawl, which makes driving cheap & housing expensive. @NatGeo breaks down the bulk of the world—and esp. CA’s—housing issues. Get out of our damn cars, support mass transit connected to job centers, build more housing. https://t.co/...

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Saturday Tweets: A Difficult Week

...2018 Word of the day: “Ginkgo” – from the Japanese “gin” (silver) & “kyo” (fruit); one of the most distinctive of trees, the fan-shaped leaves of which glow radiant yellow in autumn. Ginkgos have been alive on earth for around 270 m years; they watched us arrive & will watch us leave. pic.twitter.com/5t8MG07l29 — Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) November 9, 2018 Challenged with sloping land? Want to stop hillside erosion? Learn how to stabilize...

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The Glorious USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection

.... Deborah Griscom Passmore 1901. The collection showcases the diversity of fruit and nut varieties before industrial agriculture took it all away and replaced it with easily shipped but tasteless produce. Pomegranate. Mary Daisy Arnold, 1932. The human eye can see and perceive things that a camera can’t and the artists who made these exquisite watercolors must have had an encyclopedic knowledge of the fruits and nuts they portrayed. The collection...

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