This month Becky (the Queen of Squares) has challenged us to find lines. In Squares naturally. That is the only proper ‘rule’. I have been dipping into the archives for this one, as well as finding local lines.
Longitude and Latitude
In partnership with the Natural History Museum, the Cool Globes San Diego exhibit was displayed in and around Balboa Park, the San Diego Port, Seaport Village and the Embarcadero Marina Park from October 2008-March 2009. Various artists created globes about Climate Change.
Artist: Nina Weiss ‘Tall Grass’
“Converting traditional lawn into prairie is an attractive landscaping solution that significantly reduces household energy consumption; there is no need to mow, irrigate, or apply petroleum-based fertilisers. As leaves release oxygen into the air, dense root systems of prairie capture carbon, a phenomenon known as “carbon sequestration” that mitigates global warming…
Doesn’t that make you want to stop mowing and start growing?”
October Squares | Day 14
growing rather than mowing sounds an excellent plan to me . . . . . and very impressed you have found both longitude and latitude lines today 🙂
I’d love to have a wildflower meadow, but I do allow weeds in my lawn to help the pollinators.
Excellent lass . . . i have lots of moss at the moment does that count?!
I am sure there are some insects that love moss!! 🤣
Yes, it makes me want to stop mowing. 🙂
The constant rain has already done that job for me though. No chance of mowing until it stops.
Nice ‘lines’ choice today, Jude.
Best wishes, Pete. x
I don’t mow very often so my lawn is full of daisies, dandelions, clover and now some self-heal and I am sure the yarrow is trying to take root too. Like you although it needs mowing it won’t be done any time soon, even though yesterday was dry the grass most certainly wasn’t.
Now this is just the thing, restoring grasslands. Allan Savory, vintage African ecologist has been working on just these lines, showing that you need to emulate wild herbivore movements (driven by predators i.e. condense stock in large tight herds and keep shifting them – the dunging, trampling and moving on seqence restores the grass. There’s a great TED talk here:
This is fascinating Tish, thank you so much for sharing.
Absolutely my pleasure. Things can be done!
While I was traveling around the Great Plains in September, I saw an agricultural channel on television that touted converting farmland to grassland, or prairie land, because it stops erosion and another reason which now eludes me! Great idea, for sure. My son is a big proponent of this as well. 🙂
Yes, it seems we can do better if we have the will to do so.
When we had our house from 1991 to 2012, we had taken out both lawns and installed plant materials.
I am going to stop mowing forthwith! 🙂
Now that we don’t have the neighbourhood kids using our lawn as a football or cricket pitch, it would make sense to get rid of it. And T and I both hanker after wildflowers, more garden beds and more trees!!!
Fruit trees and a wild flower meadow with free range chickens is my dream 😊
Sounds perfect. Bees too?
Bees are welcome 🙂
Odd looking things, Jude! At first glance I thought they were Christmas baubles. Too early, of course 🙂 🙂
Aargh!! You mentioned the C word! Ten weeks on Wednesday if you are counting 🤨
I wasn’t but I saw my first C ornaments in a shop here yesterday! 😦 I haven’t made any plans as yet…
An interesting exhibit, From 2008 to 2019 and still there are people who deny climate change.
aha, the latitude and longitude lines you mentioned! Interesting globes.
They were fascinating, we should have them in every town to remind us.