Category: nature stuff

electron blueberry

Caren Alpert’s gallery here brings me these {again} mesmerizing images, taken with a electron microscope camera.Haunting and beautiful, her artists statement she says it best: “What’s in our food? What’s the difference between a bird’s-eye view of a remote vegetable crop and a microscopic swath from a pineapple leaf? How distinct is a pile of… Continue reading electron blueberry

brussels sprout boogie

I’ve never quite seen anything quite like this site called Inside Insides. It’s created by Andy Ellison (an MRI technologist), who’s been capturing Magnetic Resonance Imaging of food for several years. He apparently uses fruits and vegetables to warm up the machines he  works with at the Boston University Medical School. See some of his favourite 3D… Continue reading brussels sprout boogie

Toronto; a few days

As per usual, I’m irrelentlessly back and forth between Toronto and Picton, loving it, and juggling full-on cabin rentals (with truely spectacular guests this month), and the usual food shoots that give the best meaning to the word” teamwork” .  The point of a few days this week…were….. ….working with one of my favourite photgraphers,… Continue reading Toronto; a few days

cornography

I’m looking forward to attending “2nd annual popping of…tada… “Cornography”, an afternoon of art exploring our twisted relationship with food.This year’s program includes: a funeral for Bad Food, a music-filled foraging walk, spoken word perfomances, puppetry, visual arts, and hand-on activities. The afternoon will culminate in a DIY Pizza Party where audience members will make… Continue reading cornography

panorama of the Nook

View a fun panorama taken yesterday at the waterfront at the Nook here , captured by my friend Matt Long, photographer and web designer, and returning cottage renter extraordinaire. He always makes using programs and apps seem so easy…maybe because he also designs them ;  I wish him the best with his move to NY. In… Continue reading panorama of the Nook

nature stuff and more

A big thanks is due to Terry Sprague, my very favourite naturalist and owner of Nature Stuff Tours and Things here in Prince Edward County. I’m posting his response to me yesterday, when I queried him about the identity of some plants growing prolifically in my front yard. The large, white flowering, medicinal Valerian (that… Continue reading nature stuff and more