Author Archives: Denise

Occasional Daily Photo 4/21/12

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Denise

Some mornings the poppies do an especially fine job of arranging their blooms throughout the gravel garden. Orange notes from Papaver rupifragum and dyckia (I know I keep referring to this bit of garden as the “gravel garden,” which it … Continue reading →

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friday’s clippings 4/20/12

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Denise

Friday’s Clippings is a handy blog closet into which accumulated stuff can be shoved at the end of the week, things I want to refer to again that might be of wider interest. And speaking of odds and ends shoved … Continue reading →

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quick trip to Rolling Greens

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Denise

Work cancelled at the last minute today, the message on the phone said, so there I was in a Culver City business center parking garage with nothing to do. Driving around Culver City, I mulled the situation over and considered … Continue reading →

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221 North Figueroa Street, Los Angeles

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Denise

From the tenth floor looks like this: And at ground level. Aloes, furcraea, Kalanchoe thyrsiflora, Senecio mandraliscae, Dichondra argentea. One of the most successful public plantings of succulents I’ve seen around town. It’s been at least five years since I … Continue reading →

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Foliage Followup April 2012

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Denise

Grasses and agaves, yes, of course, solidity and movement, so why not grasses and aloes? A youngish Aloe marlothii and the evergreen cold blue steel blades of Blue Oat Grass, Helicotrichon sempervirens. I can’t imagine keeping a plant in the … Continue reading →

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Bloom Day April 2012

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Denise

April deserves a thorough Bloom Day post, but if I’m to get this in before midnight it’ll have to be brief. A big change here is that the poppies of Troy, Papaver setigerum, are over sooner than I’d like. I … Continue reading →

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a lull between rainstorms

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Denise

Two storms this week, unusual for April. February is usually our wettest month. The first storm arrived around midnight Tuesday, the other is due later tonight. Just before the first storm, leaves were swept, tables and chairs straightened. Later that … Continue reading →

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road trip destination; Nevada Museum of Art

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Denise

As road trip season begins, with the price of gas being what it is, the question we’re all asking ourselves has to be, Is the gas tank half empty or half full? I vowed to make a road trip to … Continue reading →

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when the world gets too koyaanisqatsi

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Denise

I heard this phrase a couple weeks back and thought it an instant classic, the perfect shorthand for those moments when life gets a little too fractured, too fragmented, too…out of balance or koyaanisqatsi, referring to that 1983 art house … Continue reading →

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windows on the world

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Denise

Thank you, Paris Review, for continuing Windows on the World, a wonderful “series on what writers from around the world see from their windows,” as drawn by Matteo Pericoli, first commissioned by The New York Times. My introduction to this … Continue reading →

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