Virtual Road Trip-Quebec

" I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
 Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass  

TODAY'S SEEDS OF WISDOM

• JUST BLOOMED TODAY  
• AWKWARD PHOTO OF THE DAY
• TWEET TREATS
• DID YOU KNOW...?
• DOG CONFESSIONS
• GARDEN UPDATE
• FAUNA
• GARDEN GIGGLE
• WHAT IN THE WORLD?  
• FEEDBACK

JUST BLOOMED TODAY 

AWKWARD PHOTO OF THE DAY 

TWEET TREATS

bringing you the quirky, funniest and most interesting tweets from Twitter that we came across.  

  Who's ready to hear about the worms? @karentozzi    

DID YOU KNOW...?

A snowflake can take up to a hour to fall from the cloud to the surface of the Earth.

DOG CONFESSIONS

GARDEN UPDATE
Cooler days but that ol' humidity is back. Didn't water til the afternoon and the plants were very droopy. They were pretty happy to see me with the hose and perked right up after.
VIRTUAL ROAD TRIP~JARDIN DE LA CONNAISSANCE, QUEBEC

  

With so many millions of books lying around the planet, it's no surprise that artists and designers like Thilo Folkerts and Rodney LaTourelle from Canada have been using them as materials in creative projects. In 2010, the pair constructed the Jardin de la Connaissance in Quebec using hundreds of books stacked to make walls and benches that will eventually become absorbed by the surrounding forest. Two years on and giant mushrooms are starting to sprout from the decaying books.

Since then, the garden has been interacting with the forest. The book structures have decayed in the natural setting, but have also provided various micro-environments for a range of local creatures.

Seedlings and insects have activated the walls, carpets and benches. Mushrooms – those cultivated and those who have come by themselves – have made the garden their home. Many of the originally bright colours of the books have faded. Culture is fading back into nature.

For the third season of the Jardin de la Connaissance, the authors want to extend the garden’s transformation by applying a technique originating in recent urban culture, following a renewed sense of being active in the open spaces of the city. Sampled moss from the forest is applied onto the walls as a paint mixture, a so-called ‘moss graffiti’. While the success of actual growth is somewhat open – as with all good experiments – the cover of moss material will aesthetically expedite the slow disappearance of the garden back into the forest.

GARDEN GIGGLE

• A little girl had just finished her first week of school. "I'm just wasting my time," she said to her mother "I can't read, I can't write - and they won't let me talk!"
• A little boy opened the big family bible. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages. "Mama, look what I found," the boy called out. "What have you got there, dear?" With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he answered, "I think it's Adam's underwear."

FAUNA

WHAT IN THE WORLD?  

On today in American history, people in gardens everywhere were talking about:
1789 The First Supreme Court
1890 Mormon Church officially renounces polygamy
1948 Honda Motor Co is incorporated
1960 USS Enterprise the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier was launched in Virginia
1964 The Warren Commission report delivered to President Johnson
1966 The Monkees have a hit with "Last Train to Clarksville"
1969 The Chicago Seven go on trial
2012 Endeavor flies over Orange County, California

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