Banquet Journal

doughnuts + euphorbias = good

  i had a perfect saturday morning. it started with four super-fine ladies and the desert plant society's annual succulent sale and show at van dusen botanical gardens, and concluded with coffee an...

notepads and rex begonia

taking some pictures of our new notepads today, but have been completely taken in by the pearly rex begonia leaves I have been trying to use as a prop. they literally shimmer and are fast becoming...

mimosa

 closer to home...

jil sander and baltimore

i loved raf simon's farewell collection for jil sander, but what sent me over the moon were the flowers, from baltimore in antwerp - amazing what putting something in a glass vitrine does... image...

wild flowers of the world

botanical illustrations by barbara everard for wild flowers of the world (1970)

monday

josef albers, and the last of the mingus dahlias.

luck of the egyptians

it's not really the right time of year but i am so fond of our four-leaf clover print, and of course thought of it immediately upon seeing this pin on erie basin: A very unusual Victorian brooch i...

LA

cactus right outside the front door great donut signage a f*#k of a lot of stairs (but so pretty...) neon from jow's show and more succulents

how does my garden grow

  after years of apartment living, i relish that moment in high summer when you suddenly can't keep up with the garden. tonight it will be sauteed greens on bruschetta, with a tiny tomato salad, a...

into the woods

  spent more time wandering the woods this time, where the moss grows as thick as the bark on the trees. found a patch of monotropa uniflora. "corpse plant" is the perfect name for this one!