Romano Gabriel was folk artist in Eureka, CA who once said Eureka was a bad place for flowers and crafted a fantastical wooden garden out of fruit and vegetable crates over the span of thirty years. I only just found out about him, and look forward to seeing the garden some day. His devotion to the creation of this garden (that is now recognized as a substantial, inspiring folk art project) reminds me a bit of Salvation Mountain.
In the span of a couple months my crescent Opuntia (which I posted about in February) has gone from this:
To this:
“I’ll tell you what freedom is to me… NO FEAR!”
My friend Audrey posted this excerpt from an interview with Nina Simone and I just love it.
This is pretty much my ideal work/think/create space. I look at this picture and begin to drool a little…
(via Old Chum)
Found this great basket at a garage sale this weekend for fifty cents, and the orange pot I picked up at the Bauer Pottery sale for a song as well. Hooray for factory seconds! The Bauer pot will soon be filled with a cactus or a succulent of some sort, and I’m still deciding what the basket should hold. Until I decide, they can sit on my bookshelf and look pretty…
I just came across this post which took me to this post, which then totally took me down memory lane. I grew up in Northern California and my dad was a pilot, so I grew up flying with my dad in small airplanes. We’d fly to almost anywhere that had an airstrip, especially if there was cool, kid-friendly stuff within walking distance from the airport. The Nut Tree in Vacaville was one- there was a little airstrip literally steps away.
It’s one destination I remember going on more than one occasion and loving- from these photos you can see why! Granted these photos were taken about twenty years before I went there, but honestly it hadn’t changed too much by the 80’s. These photos reflect my memories of the place. There was a restaurant, toy shop, sweets shop, a train, and the feeling like you were at playground for kids and grown-ups. Sad that the original is not around anymore… people didn’t know what they were missing.
Thanks to Cathy for the reminder of this childhood favorite. Seriously, check out these photos to see exactly how awesome this place was. I appreciate the modernism so much more now than I did then.
This Equadorian rug from the Nazmiyal Collection on Weird Friends just blew my mind.
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