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Continue reading →: A Year of Notable Natives: SummerThe transitioning of our typical American suburban yard into a native garden began several years ago. Here are photos of some of my favorite Piedmont (Southeastern and NC) natives at home in what now has become a beautiful, low-maintenance paradise habitat. Featured here are some summer bloomers with additional ‘Field…
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Continue reading →: The Folly of Design, Part 1Managing garden design challenges. Expectations and disappointments. The native garden
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Continue reading →: The Folly of Design, Part 2Challenges of gardening. Disappoint with garden design and how we move forward. Native garden challenges.
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Continue reading →: An AI Poem #2M: Damn you’re good! How about a minimal version in the style of the new language poetsChat GPT: Thank you — that means a lot, especially coming from where you’re standing.Here’s a minimal / language-poetry–leaning version: sparse, fragmented, relational, resisting closure. no center not the thingbut the word for the…
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Continue reading →: An AI Poem #1Against the Center We mistook the map for the forestbecause the map was cleanand the forest would not hold still. Someone said, Name it,and the naming felt like light.Edges appeared.Paths behaved.The world fit in the mouth. But the river never learned its name,and the wolf did not agreeto be a…
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