#Great North Wood

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£108,000 Lottery grant helps to 'reunite' Great North Wood

New pathway: Dulwich Wood and Sydenham Hill Wood will be brought together for the first time in more than a century Two of the last surviving fragments of the ancient Great North Wood are to be “reunited” in an exciting and innovative project led by the London Wildlife Trust, funded by cash from the National Lottery, which aims to preserve and enhance “a priceless and irreplaceable green…

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Lake Superior, Minnesota

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Milestone Monday

May 6th marks the first full week of May and with it, Great Lakes Awareness Day. Established in 2014, Great Lakes Awareness Day celebrates lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario and draws attention to water conservation and preservation efforts. In celebration of the day, we’re sharing artist Laura Brown’s (b. 1981) The Great Lakes of North America published in 2012 by Women’s Studio Workshop.  

Women’s Studio Workshop describes The Great Lakes of North America as “. . . a visual examination of the Great Lakes region. Using layers of color reminiscent of a 1960’s school textbook, maps of the Lakes are rearranged and layered with routes traveled by French explorers, freight ships, and the artist’s own family.” The resulting double-pamphlet stitch is a vibrant record of the Great Lakes’ shoreline replete with noted natural landmarks like Pictured Rocks and Indiana Dunes.  

Brown’s book was made in a limited edition of 50 copies signed by the artist during a residency at the Women’s Studio Workshop utilizing screen print, letterpress, wood block, and polymer relief printing.  

Read other Milestone Monday posts here! 

– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

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The United States Great Smoky Mountains National Park was founded on June 15, 1934.  

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Soggy and Groggy Black Bear Cub by David & Shiela Glatz Via Flickr: When it started raining, he took a nap in the crook of this tree. This Black Bear (Ursus americanus) cub woke up to find his fur matted and soggy. He also seemed surprised that a couple strange humans were watching as he groggily repositioned himself on the branches and looked for his mom.

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we had a very beautiful time stomping around in lake superior n staring into the woods

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Ive been re watching The Great North. And during the Herring Run episode i noticed that Craig actually gives Beef wood sorrel not a 4 leaf clover. So it wouldnt be good luck.

See the heart shape of the leaves? Thats sorrel. Clover is rounded.

Thats such a cool detail to work into the show. And i only noticed because ive been weirdly into bushcraft recently.

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more goofy camping pics to come but for now enjoy my sheer glee at finding this huge chunk of CoW (chicken of the woods aka sulphur shelf) 🧡✨

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Double pizza. 🍕🍕(mixed media on canvas)🧀🍅

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“You have a God-given, God-empowered, God-redeemed ability to choose what you think about. You have a choice regarding where you focus your energy. You have a choice regarding what you live for.”

--Jennie Allen

Photo: Bryson City, North Carolina

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I have this tea cup I made in highschool (it’s really cute and was designed more like those Japanese ones without a handle than it was those fancy English style with even more elements to them) but I never actually asked if the glaze we used was food safe (we all used the same glaze on those cups specifically because the teacher glazed those ones in particular and I don’t remember checking. I glazed and painted every other project but only one of them was something you would use for food and that thing broke a few years ago and was honestly more decorative) and this has haunted me ever since. It’s a super cute cup and I adore it, but I have no idea if I can use it for its intended purpose and while I could buy a lead testing kit I’m not sure how I would check for anything else that might have been in that glaze. I know the color used but not the brand, so that’s not really a help either. The teacher I had left the district after that year because our school district paid art teachers a shit wage and we rotated through them like elementary school kids needing new shoes every year. I’m not entirely sure how I would contact her, but even if I did track her down (something not entirely impossible from what I know about her life outside of teaching us for a year, I would feel slightly weird about it though, even though she was my favorite art teacher) but I highly doubt she would remember something like the glaze she used on one project her students made at a school she taught at for one year. I’m not sure what other testing kits I would need besides lead to confidently say it’s safe enough for my personal use, and it’s annoyed me for several years now.

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Parker Creek Sunshine - March 2023

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YE NOBLE BIG PINE TREE

T'was on a cold and frosty morning

when the sunshine was adorning -

the boughs of ev'ry lofty pine,

making them in radiance shine.

My favorite part of this song is near the end when the singer tells the pine what it'll become because it's such a straight, lofty pine:

"Then they'll sell you to some farmer

to keep his wife and children warmer.

With his team he'll haul you home

to the prairie drear and lone.

XInto a prairie house he'll make you,

where the prairie winds will shake you.

There'll be little rest for thee,

O! ye noble big pine tree!

"The prairie winds will sing around you.

The hail and sleet and snow will pound you,

and shake and wear and beach your bones,

on the prairie drear and lone.

"Then the prairie fires will burn you.

Into ashes they will turn you.

That will be the end of thee,

O! ye noble big pine tree!"

Oddly enough, the version that Brian Miller (EvergreenTrad) found via Rickaby is more of a major tune as he sings it. The version in Ballads and Songs of the Shanty-Boys is distinctly in the Dorian mode. I personally like the ambivalence between the splendor of the tree and its inevitable fate due to the mediation of capital (so, Cronon) between the singer and the tree. (especially the last lick for "o! ye noble big pine tree", as if taking in sublimity of it—such a major sounding lick to end an almost dirge like verse!)

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North Thompson River, BC (No. 1)

The North Thompson River is the northern branch of the Thompson River, the largest tributary of the Fraser River, in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It originates at the toe of the Thompson Glacier in the Premier Range of the Cariboo Mountains, west of the community of Valemount. The river flows generally south through the Shuswap Highland towards Kamloops where it joins the South Thompson River to form the main stem Thompson River.

For most of its length, the river is paralleled by Highway 5, and the Canadian National Railway (both of which cross the river a couple of times). The North Thompson passes by several small communities, the most notable being Blue River, Clearwater, and Barriere.

Source: Wikipedia

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