Geography is Subjective

Wikipedia breaks it down (and keeps it up-to-date):

Meet Me in Golden Gate Park

To do list: add photos to our Specimen Garden map (places that want online visibility)

T H I N K

X E R I S C A P E

Did You Know?

"Bumbleberry is a made-up name that suggest lots of different berries in one pie or jar of jam. Our bumbleberry jam contains blackberries, red raspberries, rhubarb and apples."

- Lehman's Mail Order Catalog, Spring 2007

Our library is growing

LibraryThing is a site that allows you to catalog your books--it thrills librarians partly because you can create catalog records using the Library of Congress information, so each book includes things like the Dewey Decimal call number! The LOC call number! The citations for the book using APA, MLA, Chicago!

And what is more exciting than a catalog? A catalog is metadata.

More about metadata soon.

Specimen Garden's catalog is now available on LibraryThing.

Living the good life

Frightening and so appealing at the same time:



"We were planning a functioning homestead, not a business; nevertheless we tried to be systematic as though we were handling a large-scale economic project. Our card index of activities had a place for 'jobs to be done', divided into 'clear weather jobs' and 'rainy day jobs', for 'construction planned', and for 'finished projects.' Each project had its cost cards with records of materials used and money outlay for specific purposes. Separate loose-leaf books . . . contained the plans, current activity reports and records from previous years."



Nearing, H. & Nearing, S. (1954). Living the good life: How to live sanely and simply in a troubled world. New York, NY: Schoken Books.