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As a teenager in rural New England, I began a project of taking a photograph of a wildflower-filled meadow at the same time every day for a year and collecting the photos and my Thoreauvian musings into a book. The goal was to capture the changing colors, bloomings, seedings, and decaying of the plants and the lighting peculiar to each day of each season. But being a teenager, I was diverted by other schemes and dreams, and I have often regretted that I did not follow through (although I later did publish academic research on the evolution of flowering time).
Happily, the Barbours have followed through where this teenager did not: they have captured the changing landscape of New England meadow and forest plants through a year and enriched it with their thoughtful observations of the changing seasons. For anyone who loves to watch natural plant communities change through the year--whether the meadow next to your barn or the ever-changing plant communities of the median strip of the interstate you drive each day to work--this book is a delight. Recommended.
Art Times
An act of love, a serious study, and a wonderfully adventurous look at the natural world around us, the Barbours' book should both delight and quicken the conscience--please us with the beauties of nature's ever-ending delight in color and form and educate us in the preservation of that heritage.
Wild Flora of the Northeast,Anita Barbour,Spider Barbour,Overlook Hardcover,0879513446,Botany,Gardening/Plants,Nature / Field Guide Books,Northeastern States,Pictorial works,Plant Geography,Plant communities,Plants - General,Gardening / Regional / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
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