Monthly Archives: May 2011
苔と一緒に家で — At home with moss
Welcome to my home away from home. Come, leave your cares at the steps; go west then north. Tiny your size and imagine how clever I can be with moss as my muse. Imagine, how savvy you will be, once … Continue reading
Making moss terrariums – or not…
When glass gathers moss , the glory is intensified. By night, glass glistens from the light of a firefly or the stars shining from above. Inside, glass glistens, too, as a reflection from candle light’s soft glow. By day, glass … Continue reading
Country Gardens Magazine photo shoot of moss dish gardens
To be fair, I should have warned Country Gardens Magazine’s photographers about moss. To our readers as well, moss be warned. Having touched on the side-effects of moss in an earlier post, I now think it’s of the utmost … Continue reading
Moss melts a hardened heart
At the dawn of spring, dainty sporophytes form after a sexual encounter of a moss kind. The lens captures what few will see; unless, of course, you are one of the chosen ones — chosen to grow moss, because you … Continue reading
Undulating waves
Ends curl along the pottery’s edge, as if lapping the rise and fall of the ocean’s water, Marsha Owens Pottery provides a fluid vessel for moss to float. Mounting, moss species of acrocarps Dicranum scoparium, Campylopus introflexus and Luecobryum glaucum, mesh … Continue reading