If readers like things like this (I wasn't sure...), I am happy to comply. This is a substantive blog, but as Darwin knew (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/design/25darw.html?_r=1&oref=slogin), gardening and scholarship are not unrelated.
Indeed, scholarship and gardening are related, to wit:
Cooper, David E. A Philosophy of Gardens (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).
Keswick, Maggie. The Chinese Garden: History, Art and Architcture (Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press, 3rd ed., 2003).
Ross, Stephanie. What Gardens Mean (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998).
Taylor, Patrick, ed. The Oxford Companion to the Garden (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).
And any number of books on Zen and gardens.
In our household there is a division of spousal labor between academic life and gardening, although I fancy myself to be rather accomplished when it comes to digging, raking, sweeping, weed-pulling, watering and the like; my dear wife, on the other hand, is a master gardener (not long ago even certified as such!), for which my condominium neighbors are most grateful.
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If you continue to place pictures like these I'll no longer have any reason to visit Althouse's blog!
If readers like things like this (I wasn't sure...), I am happy to comply. This is a substantive blog, but as Darwin knew (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/design/25darw.html?_r=1&oref=slogin), gardening and scholarship are not unrelated.
Indeed, scholarship and gardening are related, to wit:
Cooper, David E. A Philosophy of Gardens (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).
Keswick, Maggie. The Chinese Garden: History, Art and Architcture (Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press, 3rd ed., 2003).
Ross, Stephanie. What Gardens Mean (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998).
Taylor, Patrick, ed. The Oxford Companion to the Garden (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).
And any number of books on Zen and gardens.
In our household there is a division of spousal labor between academic life and gardening, although I fancy myself to be rather accomplished when it comes to digging, raking, sweeping, weed-pulling, watering and the like; my dear wife, on the other hand, is a master gardener (not long ago even certified as such!), for which my condominium neighbors are most grateful.
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