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Berry Go Round is coming to Brainripples
Garden Strawberry, Genus Fragaria
Host: Brainripples
Deadline: July 28
Email to: trees [at] brainripples [dot] com (or use the BGR submission options here)
Themes: Stretch yourself – incorporate botanical observations with artistic reflections
Important! Put “Berry Go Round” in the subject line of your email
This July Issue #30 of the Berry Go Round blog carnival visits the Brainripples blog to celebrate all things green and growing (and fruiting).
Berry Go Round is a celebration of the plant world from a botanical perspective. What does that mean? For Berry Go Round, we want to know the juicy details about the plants you share with us – scientific name, growth habits, ecology, even cultural significance.
For Issue #30 (incidentally one of my favorite numbers), I’d like to invite all my garden-blogging, art-blogging, and tree-blogging friends to participate and share a little something extra from their usual backyard blogging fare.
Stretch yourself a little:
1) Pick a plant in your garden, or your local park, or your favorite walk of trail.
2) Look at where the plant is growing, what it’s growing with, and how it looks different right now compared with how it grows during other seasons.
3) Try to find the plant in an identification book, learn a little about its natural history and cultural significance.
4) Share your findings at your blog or website, and send me the link at trees [at] brainripples [dot] com
You don’t have you be a super-smarty-pants scientist to have fun with Berry Go Round. Gather a little info about a plant, and compose it with a song or a poem or a sketch. For example, my haiku for the banana slug:
Ariolimax columbianus poetess
sentences congeal in sticky opalescence
while she explores the shady sweetness
Even parents with kids at home for summer can use this event as a great excuse to get outside and put those kids to work learning about the plants, big and small, which quietly contribute to our lives.
And yes, to those brilliant researchers among us, I want to hear ALL the juiciness from your latest field work, your ongoing data analyses, and your newly identified flora. Tell us all, and with all the detail. I welcome your insights and look forward to sharing your discoveries here at Brainripples.
Now, go forth, and learn much about the plants of the world!
Four Poems in The Monongahela Review Issue 5
Issue 5 of The Monongahela Review is now available online (woohoo!) including my poems “The n-Body Problem,” “Surfacing,” “The Maker,” and “Snowdrop.”
Begin with the introductory Jumbled Notes on Fire to set the mood.
I’m off to read…
Call for Submissions: Festival of the Trees at The Organic Writer Blog
I invite you to take a moment, close your eyes, and consider:
What is your favorite tree?
Maybe you think of a specific tree you know, or perhaps you think of a tree species you love. Maybe you don’t even know what the species of your favorite tree is, but by sweetgum, you know you love it!
This July, our host for The Festival of the Trees 49 is Yvonne Osborne of The Organic Writer blog. Yvonne and I share a love of writing, gardening, and dreaming, (and apparently a healthy synthesis of the three).
For Festival 49, Yvonne invites us to share a glimpse of “our favorite trees, whether from a childhood memory (sad or joyful) or the one growing outside our window, with participants using art in any form to relate their story — haiku, photography, flash story, sculpture, painting, etc.” — however the tree spirits move us.
I’ve never found a FOTT theme to be quite as challenging as this one. How to pick a favorite? Every place I’ve ever lived, studied, worked, or wandered has marked my memory with a tree (or two, or three), or a forest. Apart from my desire to study at a liberal arts college, at least half the reason I chose to attend The Evergreen State College was because the Evergreen campus is so well forested. If you’re one of my long-time readers at Arboreality, you already know that I select my places of residence based as much on cost and convenience as on the abundance of trees in proximity. My earliest, happiest, loneliest, strangest and most familiar memories all blush forest green. Where to begin?
Don’t wait for me to decide: everyone is welcome to participate in The Festival of the Trees. It’s easy to join in the fun:
1) Blog about trees
2) Send us the link
3) Spread the word
4) Enjoy the Festival on the first day of every month
Details for The Festival of the Trees 49:
Host: The Organic Writer
Deadline: June 28
Email to: yvonneosborne08 [at] gmail [dot] com – or use the contact form
Themes: Our favorite trees, shared in any art form.
Important! Put “Festival of the Trees” in the subject line of your email
And remember to enjoy the June Festival of the Trees 48 now online at Wandering Owl Outside.
Still want more? The Festival of the Trees has been published every month since July 2006. Browse the FOTT archives, and enjoy!