Comments for The Untended Garden - a blog about art and nature http://untendedgarden.com A blog that explores and celebrates the connection between art and nature, including books, films and new media Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:56:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Comment on I dreaded that first Robin by Christina Cody http://untendedgarden.com/2011/06/i-dreaded-that-first-robin/comment-page-1/#comment-2383 Christina Cody Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:56:36 +0000 http://untendedgarden.com/?p=972#comment-2383 I'm so glad to see this Dickinson poem today. I have always been a great admirer of her work, and I haven't read any Emily in a while. You have made my day with this blog post. I’m so glad to see this Dickinson poem today. I have always been a great admirer of her work, and I haven’t read any Emily in a while. You have made my day with this blog post.

]]> Comment on Happy Spring! by Marie http://untendedgarden.com/2011/04/happy-spring/comment-page-1/#comment-1832 Marie Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:01:08 +0000 http://untendedgarden.com/?p=932#comment-1832 Love the video- Red Priest is playing in Rockport, MA July 10 as part of the Rockport Chamber Music Series- they have a fabulous new performance center- check out the schedule at www.rockportmusic.org thanks for sharing this John! Love the video- Red Priest is playing in Rockport, MA July 10 as part of the Rockport Chamber Music Series- they have a fabulous new performance center- check out the schedule at
http://www.rockportmusic.org
thanks for sharing this John!

]]> Comment on Happy Spring! by Loni Edwards http://untendedgarden.com/2011/04/happy-spring/comment-page-1/#comment-1614 Loni Edwards Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:34:29 +0000 http://untendedgarden.com/?p=932#comment-1614 This was great! Thanks John! Happy Spring! This was great! Thanks John! Happy Spring!

]]> Comment on Katy and the Big Snow – a children’s classic by Nina Crittenden http://untendedgarden.com/2011/02/katy-and-the-big-snow-a-childrens-classic/comment-page-1/#comment-1418 Nina Crittenden Tue, 15 Mar 2011 01:51:43 +0000 http://untendedgarden.com/?p=881#comment-1418 Wow! I had never seen this book and will have to get my hands on a copy. My goodness, John... You write the most excellent book reviews!!! :) Wow! I had never seen this book and will have to get my hands on a copy. My goodness, John… You write the most excellent book reviews!!! :)

]]> Comment on Katy and the Big Snow – a children’s classic by Jocelyn http://untendedgarden.com/2011/02/katy-and-the-big-snow-a-childrens-classic/comment-page-1/#comment-1346 Jocelyn Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:34:22 +0000 http://untendedgarden.com/?p=881#comment-1346 You have comments turned off for your Snowman post, but I wanted to say that I/we LOVE The Snowman. It is so great. The music that goes with the video is so serene. I'd take hand-drawn artwork over computer animated any day of the week! You have comments turned off for your Snowman post, but I wanted to say that I/we LOVE The Snowman. It is so great. The music that goes with the video is so serene. I’d take hand-drawn artwork over computer animated any day of the week!

]]> Comment on The Winter’s Wind – a poem by Keats by John Lechner http://untendedgarden.com/2011/01/the-winters-wind-a-poem-by-keats/comment-page-1/#comment-1152 John Lechner Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:40:55 +0000 http://untendedgarden.com/?p=854#comment-1152 Thanks for the comments! Sometimes the more I look at a painting (or poem) the more I see in it. And even when I don't understand it entirely, that often makes it even more interesting, and keeps me coming back. Thanks for the comments! Sometimes the more I look at a painting (or poem) the more I see in it. And even when I don’t understand it entirely, that often makes it even more interesting, and keeps me coming back.

]]> Comment on The Winter’s Wind – a poem by Keats by amanda laurel http://untendedgarden.com/2011/01/the-winters-wind-a-poem-by-keats/comment-page-1/#comment-1146 amanda laurel Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:16:11 +0000 http://untendedgarden.com/?p=854#comment-1146 "and yet my song comes native with the warmth" - I love that line. I also love what you wrote of Friedrich's painting, about the mystery surrounding the figure. It's an interesting take on portraiture. That is something I love attempting accomplish in my paintings - the ability to cause the viewer to wonder, to want to be inside it. I love seeing it in the work of others. Thanks for sharing both the painting and the poem! “and yet my song comes native with the warmth” – I love that line.
I also love what you wrote of Friedrich’s painting, about the mystery surrounding the figure. It’s an interesting take on portraiture. That is something I love attempting accomplish in my paintings – the ability to cause the viewer to wonder, to want to be inside it. I love seeing it in the work of others.
Thanks for sharing both the painting and the poem!

]]> Comment on The Winter’s Wind – a poem by Keats by Loni Edwards http://untendedgarden.com/2011/01/the-winters-wind-a-poem-by-keats/comment-page-1/#comment-1092 Loni Edwards Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:38:49 +0000 http://untendedgarden.com/?p=854#comment-1092 I love this! Thank you so much. Beautiful! I love this! Thank you so much. Beautiful!

]]> Comment on Arthur Rackham’s Midsummer Night’s Dream by Nina Crittenden http://untendedgarden.com/2010/11/arthur-rackhams-midsummer-nights-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-861 Nina Crittenden Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:44:24 +0000 http://untendedgarden.com/?p=814#comment-861 Arthur Rackham's work is enchanting, I hadn't seen it in a long time! Elaborate illustration just boggles my mind, I just adore it! Arthur Rackham’s work is enchanting, I hadn’t seen it in a long time! Elaborate illustration just boggles my mind, I just adore it!

]]> Comment on Arthur Rackham’s Midsummer Night’s Dream by Simone Solon http://untendedgarden.com/2010/11/arthur-rackhams-midsummer-nights-dream/comment-page-1/#comment-815 Simone Solon Sun, 14 Nov 2010 09:50:43 +0000 http://untendedgarden.com/?p=814#comment-815 Thank you for reminding me about Arthur Rackham - it isn't that his images are uplifting, although they are, like anything beautiful, but I always find something movingly yearning in them. They are so infused with a sense of something long desired but unobtainable - a sort of peripheral vision. Could the book of greek myths be an edition of The Heroes by Charles Kingsley? I remember having an edition with particularly lovely illustrations when I was a child? Thank you for reminding me about Arthur Rackham – it isn’t that his images are uplifting, although they are, like anything beautiful, but I always find something movingly yearning in them. They are so infused with a sense of something long desired but unobtainable – a sort of peripheral vision.

Could the book of greek myths be an edition of The Heroes by Charles Kingsley? I remember having an edition with particularly lovely illustrations when I was a child?

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