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Comment on My New Place by flandrumhill

flandrumhill — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:58:46 +0000

I love your tree rings. The green one is simply gorgeous.

Isn’t it interesting how natural shapes reveal themselves when they’re covered with moss?

Comment on My New Place by throughstones

throughstones — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:01:05 +0000

Ice storms sounds nasty!! We’ve not had that here, though it has been tempestuous recently. Much heavy rain. As for the trees appreciating my work – each time I got a storng feeling they were pleased – but I didn’t like to say! Probably all in my imagination anyway.

Comment on My New Place by artistatexit0

artistatexit0 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:10:41 +0000

I appreciate how you celebrate trees in your work. Do they “feel” honored in return? Have been watching all the rain fall in the Lake District. There is now so much water and energy in the system. Just found out that the city I live in was the only one in the U.S. that was declared a disaster area three different times in the same year! We had a severe wind storm, ice storm, and flooding from a storm that wouldn’t move on. We are hoping for an easy winter!

Comment on Devon Hedge Week by throughstones

throughstones — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:23:46 +0000

That sounds pretty good to me! I would love to see some of Canada’s wide open spaces – I remember you sent me a great tourism link once, but can’t remember whereabouts the place was.

Comment on Devon Hedge Week by throughstones

throughstones — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:18:03 +0000

Lovely to hear from you, and looking forward to catching up with your Nova Scotia life…. sorry posts are erratic at the mo, and likely to remain so for a time – but I have not forgotten you. Still doing a lot of ‘connecting’ round here! It is giving me added pleasure in surveying our local hedges, now that i know what i am looking at

Comment on Devon Hedge Week by flandrumhill

flandrumhill — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:55:28 +0000

How I love hedges. They frame the fields and make good neighbors. If I didn’t have such wide ones, there’d be nothing between me and mine! They act as a barrier to wind and snow in the winter and noise in the summer.

I did some reading about them a while back and was in awe of the expertise required to both create and maintain certain types.

So nice to see you back

Comment on Jean Paul Ganem by COP15 « THROUGHSTONES

COP15 « THROUGHSTONES — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:13:55 +0000

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Comment on Devon Hedge Week by redstarcafe

redstarcafe — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:43:29 +0000

Welcome back, Linda. What an idyllic post and why am I not surprised to see a photographic analysis of hedge construction. I did not know that some of these hedges were so old or that their maintenance was such a science. And you have put an entirely new meaning to throughstones for me.

“Inaccessible by public transit” applies here in Ontario as well. It takes a good hour or more to get out of the sprawling city to places where there is still farmland divided by trees and bushes. Now I need to take the less-travelled roads and see the bones of these places.

Comment on Devon Hedge Week by throughstones

throughstones — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:55:19 +0000

Lovely to be back in Devon. and home, thanks! Yes – lots of learning, growing, fun and hard work! I feel I will never, ever catch up with myself, since before setting off for Korea. (I have still not written up that adventure, nor sorted photos…). Looking forward to having a quiet browse through your lovely blog, when things quieten down a bit. As for now, the sun is shining, so I will grab the opportunity to walk out on the Burrows before getting my head down once again.

Comment on Devon Hedge Week by throughstones

throughstones — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:28:35 +0000

very nice site, and great to know tradional ’sustainable’ crafts such as this are being encouraged – thanks for the link. Kentucky looks like a good place to live, and some of the buildings look just like many I saw whilst living up in Northumberland.