Welcome
This site is a project by Kathy Parrent, a retired writer, gardener, environmentalist and photographer. She shares her photos, book reviews and blogs along with written content by friends and followers. Contact us if you would like to write something for the site or have an informative resource to share.
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Thanks to Gordon Maclean, Christine Merantza, Claudia Myers, Erica Cirino, Joan Engebretson, Frank Jenkins and Joanne Parrent, all of the book authors, to Greg Smela for design and administration and all who participated in this site in 2023. This was the year we lost Thom Roberts, a lighting director for major musical acts, known for his creativity and work ethic and a close friend of mine for over 50 years. He was also a dear friend of many of the writers on this site. He will not be forgotten.
April 2024
BOOK REVIEWS
We are the Ark by Mary Reynolds, who urges us to return our manicured grass spaces back to their original habitats;
Hive Tour: The Insider's Guide to Honey Bees
By Phil Frank & Frank Linton
Using simple text descriptions layered on beautiful, detailed photos, this book describes the mystery of the inside of a bee hive;
The Urban Garden - 101 Ways to Grow Food and Beauty in the City
By Kathy Jentz & Teri Speight
This book contains many useful tips for city gardeners along with appealing ways to design your small space. There are many photos illustrating methods of gardening along with attractive design ideas throughout the book.
GUEST BLOGS:
Puma 22: A Remembrance, a tribute to the wild Puma that called the Hollywood Hills his home and to the Los Angeles author’s dog of 17 years, who died around the same time.
A Tour of an Urban Farm in Chicago
The writer describes her visit to the Farm on Ogden, a multi-use facility on the Southwest side managed by the Chicago Botanic Garden and Lawndale Christian Health Center (LCHC), a multifaceted teaching space run for and by the community.
This time the column looks at the book, An Immense World, How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms around Us by Ed Yong, which explains the very different ways that the Earth’s creatures experience the world.
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