Tag: Scarves
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The Tail of Spring
When April showers, the air smells warm, damp, and earthy. This particular wet earth scent is called geosmin, or petricor. It is excreted by soil bacteria to advertise food to springtail, an insect-like organism, who spreads the spores by carrying them along. But it’s not only attractive to the springtail, humans are extremely sensitive to…
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Portrait of A Lady
Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Which sky? The sky where Watteau hung a lady’s slipper. Your knees are a southern breeze — or a gust of snow. Agh! what sort of man was Fragonard? — As if that answered anything. — Ah, yes. Below the knees, since the tune drops that…
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The Tulip Folly
Of the abundance of financial crises around the world, most boil down to mismanaging money, such as debt and currency. More than enough come in bubbles, such as the 2008 U.S. housing bubble that burst into the Great Recession and then spread into a global financial crisis, the 1973 oil embargo during the Yom Kippur…
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The Ides of March
“Soothsayer: Beware the ides of March. Caesar: He is a dreamer. Let us leave him. Pass.” – William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar In ancient Roman times, the ides marked the full moon of each month. Since their calendar began with March, it was the first full moon of the year. As the ides were sacred to…
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The Bloom of Spring
The flower garden bedazzles in springtime. First come snowdrops and daffodils in sparkling white and bright yellow. Then come a profusion of cherry blossoms and tulips in every brilliant hue. Finally Lady Banks’ roses arrive in thousands upon thousands of tiny bouquets, dangling like delicate wind-chimes. All is a gorgeous feast for the eyes, especially…
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Danaë
In 1898, the literary critic Hermann Bahr wrote in the journal Sacred Spring, “Our art is not a combat of modern artists against those of the past, but the promotion of the arts against the peddlers who pose as artists and who have a commercial interest in not letting art bloom. The choice between commerce…
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Aquarius
Aquarius means “the water-bearer” in Latin. The constellation Aquarius lies in a region of the sky referred to as the Sea, because it contains other constellations associated with water, such as Pisces the Fish, Eridanus the River, and Cetus the Whale. The Greek astronomer Ptolemy’s Almagest depicted Aquarius as a young man pouring water from…
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The Snake
“And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”Genesis 3:4-5 Thus Eve eats the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil,…
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The Mermaid
Among the stories written by Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid must be the most well-known of them all, so famous that the statue of the little mermaid by the waterside in Copenhagen has come to symbolize the city itself. And it is beloved the world over for good reason. Beside the beautiful writing that…
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The Pink Flamingo
To muse about the pink flamingo, one must first look back into the history of American landscape design to visit Andrew Jackson Downing, considered the father of American landscape architecture. A devotee of the English school of garden design, Downing designed landscapes for country estates throughout the Northeast early in his career, while aiming to…
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