3DBill

@3DBill@mstdn.ca

Photographer (botanicals, landscapes, people), surface design, gardener. Living in Vancouver, BC, Canada (Coast Salish terr). I mostly avoid posting or reading about politics on social media.

header: delicate pink sakura flowers against a bright spring sky
avatar: me against a white backdrop with a red maple leaf splodged on

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3DBill, to gardening

coronaria Rainbow 'Blueberry'.

johncarlosbaez, (edited ) to random
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Vancouver may soon see a dramatic addition. It's called Sen̓áḵw, and it consists of 11 tall towers holding 6,000 apartments. It’s being built by the Squamish First Nation. Since it's on land they own, they don't have to follow Vancouver’s zoning rules. And they've chosen to build bigger, denser and taller than anywhere else in Canada.

Predictably, this rubs against a widespread belief that the Squamish, as an indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast, are living fossils with a duty to embody a romantic vision of life before Europeans came here:

City councillor Colleen Hardwick said “How do you reconcile Indigenous ways of being with 18-storey high-rises?” And Gordon Price, a Vancouver urban planner and a former city councillor, said “When you’re building 30, 40-storey high rises out of concrete, there’s a big gap between that and an Indigenous way of building.”

Neither of these people are members of the Squamish First Nation. Sen̓áḵw existed as a city of cedar longhouses long before Vancouver was built. Its Squamish residents saw their land carved up for railways. Then their houses were burnt down, and they were loaded onto a barge and shipped away. Now they're back.

Much of my text was paraphrased from this article by Michelle Cyca, which has more cool pictures:

https://macleans.ca/society/sen%cc%93a%e1%b8%b5w-vancouver/

3DBill,

@johncarlosbaez I wonder how water & sewage is going to work. Any idea?

3DBill, to gardening

palmatum, japanese maple.

3DBill, to gardening

'Firebird'. Couldn't find breeder info.

3DBill, to gardening

elwesii. Starting to fade in the garden now. The hellebores are finally coming on.

3DBill, to gardening

#Lilium pardalinum, leopard lily, a native to the west coast of North America. Never did well for me in Seattle until I moved it into full shade next to a lilac. Then a squirrel ate it 😭

#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany #lily

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dnc, to gardening
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    3DBill,

    @dnc if the leaves are crunchy, dead. Otherwise dormant.

    skaeth, to books
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    What are your thoughts on DNF (Did Not Finish)-ing books? Do you feel guilty about it? Do you worry you missed out on something? Or are you confident in dropping a book and reaching for the next one?

    At what point are you most likely to DNF, if ever? What sorts of things cause you to DNF?

    My friend, book blogger Kriti, was musing on these questions a while back, and it sparked this new post: https://armedwithabook.com/dealing-with-dnf-the-practice-of-did-not-finish/

    @bookstodon

    3DBill,

    @skaeth @bookstodon I’ve found that for most books there is a time it connects for me and a time it doesn’t. Things I liked when I was young that I’m not interested in now and vice versa. I don’t see any point in forcing yourself to run your eyes across a book when it isn’t speaking to you, you won’t get anything out of it anyway.

    3DBill,

    @skaeth @bookstodon paraphrase of Doris Lessing … more or less :)

    3DBill,

    @skaeth @bookstodon As near as I can track it down while away from my books - "There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag — and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. ... 1/2

    3DBill,

    @skaeth @bookstodon ... 2/2 "Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty — and vice versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you". from her preface to a later edition of The Golden Notebook

    3DBill, to gardening

    #Dahlia 'Ginger Fury' (Bee, 2017, D. 'Ginger Willo' x D. 'Alpen Fury').

    #garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany

    3DBill, to gardening

    #Cypripedium 'Philipp' (C. macranthos x C. kentuckiense, W.Frosch 1996 - per RHS)

    #SlipperOrchid #TerrestrialOrchid #garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany

    3DBill, to gardening

    #Chaenomeles 'Orange Storm' flowering #quince

    #garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany

    James, (edited ) to random
    @James@woof.group avatar

    Patrick and I have been together for 15 years, but we're not married. I'm always a little at a loss as to how to refer to him with others. I've been told "husband" would work better, but that feels weird since we're not married. What's your opinion?

    3DBill,

    @Isocat @James @Hunko do you remember that set piece with your mother?
    "What shall I call you?"
    "Bill"

    ... rinse and repeat cause she didn't get the hint.

    3DBill, to gardening

    Tall Bearded #Iris 'Babbling Brook' (Keith Keppel, 1965)

    #garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany

    3DBill, to gardening

    #Papaver somniferum 'Turkish Red' #poppy

    #garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany

    3DBill, to gardening

    #Dianthus plumarius 'Sweetness', garden pink.

    #garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany #pink

    3DBill, to gardening

    #Mespilus germanica, #medlar awaiting bletting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletting
    Once they have bletted (have blet?) the inside is mushy like apple sauce, and you can squeeze it out and eat it out of hand or use it for various kinds of preserve.

    #garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany

    Closeup of the fruit from the side. You can see where some of them are beginning to blet (the dark spots).
    A branch with a cluster fo the fruit still on it, on a black cloth. They persist on the tree until well after the leaves are gone, into December or later.
    Closer view of the branch from a different angle.

    3DBill, to gardening

    #Muscari 'Peppermint' grape hyacinth (AC Philippo 2004)

    #garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany

    3DBill, to gardening

    'Star Struck' (Oakes, 1987)

    MargueriteHBC, to books
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    YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1826:
    "All the Indians as usual followed us with the Constant Cry of Cynol or Tobacco. Got above the Big Dalles by 1 pm & arrived at the little Dalles and passed them by 2 and at 3 arrived at the Chutes where met with a greater Concourse of of Indians than I ever saw here. They volunteered to Carry the Boats which I permitted as I did not wish to encamp here for fear they might inure the Cattle. After we got everything... #AmWritingHistory #HistoricJourney #Books

    3DBill,

    @MargueriteHBC I can’t find anything about Cynol that seems relevant, do you know what it is?

    3DBill,

    @MargueriteHBC wow that’s amazing. Amazing to be transported back like that. Tobacco - didn’t even occur to me!

    3DBill,

    @MargueriteHBC

    Found it. It's Chinook jargon for tobacco, elsewhere transcribed as k'aynuł and derived from an Algonquin language (A 'New" Chinook Jargon Word List, Sarah G Thomason, University of Pittsburgh, June 1995), and KainoL (Words for Tobacco in American Indian Languages, Roland B. Dixon, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1921), p 21.)

    Now I can sleep easy lol

    3DBill, to gardening

    , unknown cultivar. Sometimes known as Christmas, Thanksgiving, or Easter cactus, because it determines when to flower by day length, and in the Northern Hemisphere, that's right around now, and again in the spring - plus or minus a couple of weeks, depending on the cultivar.

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