Madeline Enoch-Epley’s collection of colorful portraits is constantly growing. You can catch a glimpse of her progress at the opening of 500 faces 500 paintings 500 hours on 11.11.11 from 5-6:30 p.m. at U.K.’s Kentucky Neuroscience Institute’s clinic gallery, 740 South Limestone (across from Starbucks.)Want to be a part of it? This project could include … you! Send Enochs-Epley an e-mail, at
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Ward Hall is simply a magnificent historic architectural treasure. This Greek Revival villa, commissioned by Junious Ward in abut 1857, is now being renovated by the Ward Hall Preservation Foundation, and maintained by volunteers. It’s located on the outskirts of Georgetown in Scott county, Kentucky. Ward Hall is open for guided tours one weekend 
each month, but closes soon for the winter. This month the dates are November 5 and 6, and also on December 3 and 4, from 1-6 p.m. each day. The renovation has really just begun, so visitors are met with both …….
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What’s a gardener to do, when the frost is on the pumpkin and the impatiens have turned to globs of goo? Work off the frustration by dancing with the un-dead, of course. Happy Halloween … and hope to see you dancin’ next year, too!
The Gardener’s Lecture Series, sponsored by the Fayette County Master Gardeners and the Friends of The Arboretum, has been attracting some great garden experts to town. This week Planthropology author Ken Druse will be in town, sharing some thoughts about horticultural wonders in his lecture Secrets of the Garden Revealed: The Myths, Mysteries and Miracles of our Garden Favorites. For more information … click here.
Stone Walls: Personal Boundaries
Photographs: Mariana Cook
Writings: Wendell Berry … Susan Allport … Lucy Breathitt
Damiani… 192 pp … $50
Stark and elemental, striking black & white portraits of walls from around the world reveal a simple elegance and architectural sophistication as they portray the character and purpose of their makers. A sea wall at the edge of the Burren in western Ireland, a series of stepped terrace near Cusco, Peru, a temple in Malta, and rock walls in the Bluegrass are some of the featured structures.
Cook, a protégé of renowned photographer Ansel Adams, is known for her people portrait collections; to see a gallery of her work, for example a photograph of President Barack and First Lady Michele Obama, click here.
On Wednesday, October 19, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., the Dry Stone Conservancy is sponsoring a public reception and book signing in Cook’s honor. It will be held at the Bodley-Bullock House, 200 Market Street, Lexington KY. Tickets are $35. Click here to order a reception ticket. Cook is donating part of the proceeds from this book to the Dry Stone Conservancy.
There is a lot going on at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill this weekend, September 23-25. You can run in a 5-mile race, milk a cow, enter a dessert-making contest, join a family bike ride, and have a special dinner; there are too many activities to list here, but you can find them all by clicking this link: HarvestFest Schedule.
Getting out into the countryside in late summer … Click here for the whole story and photos …
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Students Abbie Tick (L) & Anya Slepyan (R) planting cabbage seedlings for a late-harvest crop in the Temple Adath Israel organic garden.
Lessons learned in a garden are immeasurable. More than just the sum of spaces marked between plants and the realization of truly fresh flavors, working together to nurture real living things and recognizing our interdependence on Earth creates, in a quiet way, a subtle deepening of awareness.
School gardens are not a new idea in Kentucky. In the early 1900s, they were part of the measurement of a school’s success, and in following decades continued during WWI and II as patriotic contributions to the war effort. The Louisville school district maintained a Director of School Gardens. There is a great compilation of references for writings from the early 20th century: CLICK HERE to see Michigan State University’s library Web-page on early school gardens.
To read the September 17, 2011 Lexington Herald-Leader feature article about School Gardens CLICK HERE.
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Who would think that there is an organic vegetable garden, an oasis of green, hidden away at one of Lexington’s busiest intersections at Man-o’-War and Nicholasville roads. For a slideshow of some insects I found visiting there, and to to learn a bit more about CSAs, CLICK HERE.
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Betty Hall raises butterflies in her suburban Lexington home, and keeps a garden filled with an assortment of plants that caterpillars of all sorts need to survive. One of those plantings is milkweed to attract monarchs. The amazing photographs she captures are beautiful reflections of her success.
Betty wrote recently that while she was cutting back the milkweed, she got some of its milky sap in her eyes, which resulted in a chemical burn that caused temporary blindness for a couple of days. You can read her story by clicking the link below. And hopefully, be warned so that you avoid a similar fate.
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Sugar Snaps and Strawberries Simple Solutions for Creating Your Own Small-Space Edible Garden Andrea Bellamy Timber Press Books 225 pp $19.95
This is the book you pull off the shelf in January when the snow is deep and the wind whistles around the corner – a kind of Spring “wish book” for vegetable and herb gardeners. It has beautiful pictures and, simple, direct, practical information for gardeners on any level.
The author is a young woman who gardens in Canada, specifically British Columbia, where all things grow beautifully. The title is a bit of a misnomer … Judy Harmon’s review is continued: simply click here
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Forget green thumbs. I’m guessing my genes are green, and know my jean knees are. MORE