Luxury Swedish watch brand Carl Edmond launched their first global campaign today. The advert features Joel Kinnaman as the face of the brand.
The company launched in September last year with an aim to bring together Swiss sophistication and Swedish heritage. To design the watches they brought in Swiss watch designer Eric Giroud along with his protégée Adrian Glessing. Together these highly respected designers created a minimalist aesthetic and a series of classy colour palettes.
To market the watches the company have created namesake character Carl Edmond, a man who personifies the watches. Swedish actor Joel Kinnaman was brought on board straight away to portray the character. The campaign launched today with the release of the full video in which a series of people talk of their admiration for Carl Edmond. He is portrayed as a man of almost mythical status.
In recent years Swedish actor Joel Kinnaman has been making a name for himself stateside. After landing a starring role in AMC's the killing he went on to play the titular role in the 2014 Robocop remake. He currently plays Will Conway in House of Cards, joining the successful Netflix series for its 4th season as well as playing the lead role in another Netflix series, the sci-fi themed Altered Carbon.
"If I was stranded on a deserted island and could bring one thing only. I would bring Carl Edmond. And if it was the other way around. I would beg Carl to bring me", says Joel.
In designing the range of Carl Edmond watches Giroud and Glessing took inspiration from Swedish furniture of the 1960s and 70s. Unlike Swedish furniture however, I am assured the watches will not need assembly once purchased.The leather used to create the wristbands is Swedish Tärnsjö. This 140 year old institution is part of a small minority of tanning houses that use the environmentally friendly vegetable-based tanning method.
The watches utilise Swiss quartz movement and sapphire crystal available in two shapes: the round classic "Ryolit" and the bold, square "Granit". The dials are available in a range of colours including white, black, gunmetal, cameo, navy and limed spruce.


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Designed especially for beginning students of human anatomy. These accurate and stimulating charts are a refreshing addition to the classroom. Charts are large size (40 x 55") and are printed on durable, washable plastic. Charts are sold individually or as a set (item #576602) that includes 1 each of 7 charts in the series and a sturdy, all-metal charthead with adjustable tripod base.


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Can "War Horse" Beat Clooney For Golden Globe?
Steven Spielberg's epic drama War Horse opened this week, banking on the raw cinematic power of horses to do what they do so well in their everyday lives: perform brute work for humans and get almost nothing for it.
(Note: Today's post is by Sally Eckhoff, a writer and visual artist whose work has appeared in The Village Voice, Salon.com and The New York Times).
The story is simple: Albert, a Devonshire country boy, meets Joey, a horse. Albert teaches Joey to pull a plow and save the farm. A natural disaster causes the farm to fail anyway; Albert's father sells Joey to the cavalry to pay his debt to his landlord and the horse goes off to fight in the First World War (that's two saves for Joey).
Albert swears he'll find his four-footed friend and bring him home. Both heroes, boy and horse, go forward into a maelstrom of fear and violence that turns out to be far worse than anyone dreamed. Albert hopes for a positive outcome. Joey, of course, has no hope to nurture. But through persistence, bravery and improbable luck, they both gain shelter and (come on, you knew this was coming) a bittersweet end.
This is a remarkably restrained reading of the classic adolescent-meets-animal cliché, and it prepares the audience gently for the wrenching motion of the story. Spielberg's first elegant move in War Horse is his depiction of an animal that becomes radiantly beautiful simply by being itself: frisking and rearing at his mother's heels, refusing to come when called, bolting madly at a light snap of Albert's whip.
The horse's physicality is a crucial component of the story. Joey, with his burnished hide and enormously liquid eyes, is either going to meet death or crash violently into it. Either way, the scenes are going to be harrowing.
How is War Horse as a movie for children? Let's start with a basic premise. The compassionate treatment of animals is an open question, if not an urgent one, in many American households. Most kids learn benevolence (if they do) by feel. The touch of warm fur is a powerful inducement toward nonverbal communication. Only by using gentleness can a child earn a response from a cat or dog. War is outside the emotional purview of children. Love is not.
Most of us aren't capable of embracing the implication of war in all its dimensions. War Horse gets to the issue obliquely by giving viewers an innocent being to follow, one showing no human emotion. Joey can't anticipate. He can only go forward. We can't read his face. It's also comforting to imagine, as the movie progresses, that there could be something occupying Albert's imagination besides pointless death.
Spielberg's second elegant touch is his treatment of the fate of two young German deserters, which we glimpse through the spinning blades of a windmill. The film reveals the gory transaction of war only reluctantly, while going a great distance toward restoring faith in a basic human belief: that the impulse to do right by our animal familiars is normal and natural.
Throughout the movie, characters on all sides of the conflict are touched by Joey's plight and struggle to help them. One terse scene shows Joey, freshly snatched up by the German infantry, being led past pens of dirty, starving horses who've seen the worst of the war. "It's a pity they found you," an officer says ruefully to his shiny captive. Within days, Joey's friend Topthorne is dead of exhaustion, but Joey soldiers grimly on, covered with mud and blood.
There seems to be some confusion lately whether it's appropriate, or even okay, to cherish sentimental feelings for animals when there are other pressing issues to contend with. But it was sentiment that saved Joey, and Joey saved quite a few lives himself. In watching this creature, so dwarfed by the war in which he's conscripted, a viewer may be moved to contemplate how compassion can ensure survival. And that's why there's nothing wrong with wanting to rescue something as lovely and plain as a horse, even if horses can't be counted on to return the favor (though time after time, they do).
This might be what distinguishes us as a civilization, should we ever fall so far as to lose our dignity. Tellingly, in War Horse's final battle scene, a German and English soldier meet and conspire to cut Joey free from a lacerating mass of barbed wire. As difficult as this scene is to watch, it's sweet to recall. We can't be satisfied with merely being reminded of our own potential for decency. We need to act on it.
So, too, should the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture go to War Horse on January 15. Deeper than George Clooney's The Ides of March and The Descendents, Spielberg's movie isn't just a story about Albert and Joey. It's a story about horses and human brutality. The cameras roll, the horses rear, run, stumble and struggle to their feet. And we—on cue—are moved.


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A New Interpretation Of "Cabaret" Opens The Rep Season
Liz Pearce as Sally and Hunter Ryan Herdlicka as Cliff in "Cabaret" at the Rep. Photo: Jerry Nauheim, Jr.
No musical has undergone more incarnations than "Cabaret" and the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis has opened their new season with yet another. Using music from the original (1966), the film (1972) and the 1993 London re-do with Alan Cumming plus a combination of the various story lines from those productions, it offers a solid, if somewhat uneven evening.
The cast is basically very strong with Mary Gordon Murray leading the way as Fraulein Schneider- the landlady who takes in the young American writer, Clifford Bradshaw in Berlin as 1929 turns to 1930. She displays a strong singing voice and is an excellent actor as well. Her complacent "So What?" in the first act and desperate "What Would You Do?" in the second act are highlights. Michael Marotta is also quite good as one of her lodgers and eventual fiance, Herr Schultz. A Jew, he's one of those who gets confused and therefore duped by the Nazi occupation. "Why should they come after me?" he implores, "after all, I'm a German, too." And we all know how that turned out.
Nathan Lee Graham leads the gang at the Kit Kat Klub in the Rep's "Cabaret." Photo: Jerry Nauheim, Jr.
As the cabaret singer and free spirit, Sally Bowles, Liz Pearce shines with a strong singing voice and wins us over with her optimistic outlook on life. Unfortunately, you can't take that kind of attitude when your life is truly in danger every minute. Her spectacular interpretation of the iconic title song is both poignant and moving. As Cliff, her lover and sometimes mentor, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka adds another strong singing and acting performance to the main characters.
The entire supporting cast and singing and dancing troupe are powerful as well. With special nods to Dana Winkle as the lady of easy virtue who has a "wink-wink" relationship with Fraulein Schneider and her arrangement for earning the rent and to Blake Ellis as Cliff's first friend, Ernst, who turns out to be one of the many Nazi sympathizers popping up among the local Berliners.
Michael Marotta as Herr Schultz and Mary Gordon Murray as Fraulein Schneider in "Cabaret" at the Rep. Photo: Jerry Nauheim, Jr.
An odd choice for characterization makes Nathan Lee Graham's interpretation of the mysterious Emcee of the Kit Kat Klub a bit of a befuddlement to me. First, his strange speech pattern makes for some serious diction problems- especially during the musical numbers. He appears to be going for a cross between original emcee Joel Grey and Geoffrey Holder of the "uncola" nut fame. It's often distracting and a little over the top- even for a character as precocious as the emcee. His best moment is the sultry "I Don't Care Much" in the second act- a song from the London revival.
I found the song choices, on the whole, a nice mix of old and new. The delightful "Pineapple Song" between Schneider and Schultz is always a welcome treasure as is the "Telephone Dance," which also gets cut quite often in productions of late. And "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" is still one of the most chilling and chillingly effective songs in any musical. On the other hand, I appreciate dipping back into the original for the wonderful "Sitting Pretty" but then they segue into the film version, "The Money Song." They don't really go together artistically or dramatically. I also found it a bit odd that the stage was not "cleaned up" for the second act after guns of confetti littered the whole area at the end of the first act.
Liz Pearce belts out the title song as Sally Bowles in the Rep's "Cabaret." Photo: Jerry Nauheim, Jr.
The delightful all girl Kit Kat Klub orchestra included Henry Palkes in drag and the orchestrations were nicely arranged by Christy Crowl. The dramatic lighting plot of John Lasiter worked well and the eclectic costumes of Angela Wendt were effective including some bizarre but appropriate outfits for the emcee. Although Michael Schweikardt's set design was efficient and quick, it got a bit crowded and overlapped a bit too much at times which led to a few distractions in time and place.
"Cabaret" is another one of those bastions of the musical stage. It's survived the various re-writes, re-musicalizations and reinterpretations. And, although I found this one a bit too disconcerting, it's a worthwhile production with wonderful performances and those outstanding Kander and Ebb songs. It plays at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis Mainstage through October 6th. Give the Rep a call at 314-968-4925 or contact them at http://www.repstl.org for tickets or more information.
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Good weather and a good race bring out good conversation it turns out. A handful of moto-colleagues and I were sitting at a cafe in the middle of Barcelona. Earlier that day, Rossi'd been victorious and we'd cried ourselves hoarse from our vantage point overlooking the start-finish of the Circuit de Catalunya.


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One of the most thrilling things about growing and designing seasonal flowers is how they can connect us, even when we're continents apart. I've always said that flower people are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet, and today's interview further confirms this. Becky Crowley is someone I've admired from afar for a long time, and I'm so happy to be introducing her to you today if you don't already know her or follower her online.
Living and gardening in the East Midlands region of England, Becky Crowley grows flowers for the cutting garden at Chatsworth House, the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire which is in Derbyshire in the North of England. In addition to running the cutting garden, she also has an Etsy shop filled with beautiful botanical prints and cards. I recently ordered a bunch, and they are even lovelier in person.
As she shares with us, you'll learn about how she landed this incredible job and how her past experiences prepared her for where she is today. You'll also learn about the important charity work Becky supports as a volunteer and through sales of her prints. I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did.
Erin: Becky, I am so delighted to have the opportunity to connect with you today. For those that don't know you already, please share a bit about yourself and your role at Chatsworth House.
Becky: Hello Erin, it's a real pleasure. Thanks so much for asking me to contribute to your blog, as it's been a valuable resource for me over the years.
For those who don't know about Chatsworth, it is a mind-bogglingly grand stately home often referred to as the 'Palace of the Peaks' due to its location within the Peak District National Park. There's been a house here since the 1550's when Bess of Hardwick and her husband William Cavendish made it their home. It is the Cavendish line that continues today with the 12th Duke and Duchess of Devonshire who live at Chatsworth now and for whom I grow cut flowers. Things have changed a great deal over the years though with the property, including the gardens, now being owned by a charitable trust and open to the public for nine months of the year.
So it's my role to try to make a beautiful cut flower garden for visitors to enjoy whilst ensuring that we produce the quantities of flowers required to decorate the private rooms of the Duke and Duchess and for all the big events that are held in the house. We also provide the Chatsworth farm shop with flowers and a growing number of weddings too. Luckily I work with a team of three excellent florists, so for the most part I am able to concentrate on the growing and gardening.
The cutting garden is a one acre site, but it is set within a three acre kitchen garden where my colleagues Stefan Homerski and Glenn Facer grow an amazing range of fruit, vegetables and herbs. We have four beautiful Victorian glasshouses at our disposal too, two of which I use for cut flowers, starting with anemones and ranunculus in March and ending with a selection of chrysanthemums in November and December.
Erin: I'm amazed at the diversity of plants that you tend at Chatsworth gardens. How do you stay organized and plan your work? Can you describe what a typical day is like for you?
Becky: What has become clear over the years is that I'm most organised when I have a good balance between work in the garden, work in the glasshouses & planning. I haven't always managed to get this right; if I get too caught up with jobs in the garden, I might miss important glasshouse work such as a sowing that I'll regret later, or the chance to deal with aphids before they get out of hand! Likewise, if I spend too much time in the glasshouses, my absence from the garden soon shows, and one winter I planned the year ahead to the very last detail but didn't leave enough time to complete the crucial work on the ground before the season started, which put me & my meticulous plans very much on the back foot.
So a typical day or week varies with the seasons, but will generally involve a combination of hands-on work in the garden and the glasshouses combined with planning for what's ahead. Today for example, after checking and watering all the glasshouse plants, I set this year's sweet pea seeds out to pre-germinate, then cleaned & divided dahlias, potting some of them up ready to take cuttings from. Tomorrow will be different, as I'll work with one of our students and a volunteer to barrow tonnes of mulch onto the beds, cut back perennials and dig out plants that are not earning their keep. As we're clearing and mulching the beds I'll be concocting plans in my mind (& in my notebook) about what I'd like to grow in the coming year, considering previous successes and failures and working out what I can improve. Later in the week I'll pull together my seed & plant lists & plan what to grow in the space we have available, working out quantities & drawing up a seed sowing time-line for the coming months.
Erin: It's incredible to look back on life and see how past experiences have prepared us for where we are now. What previous experiences have prepared you for the incredible things you're currently doing?
Becky: This is such an interesting question. I didn't even know this job existed when I was younger, yet when I look back at many of my previous experiences, they seem entirely relevant to what I do today.
Art & creativity were central to my life when I was growing up, and as a young adult I studied fine art at University. I certainly wasn't a gardener at that point, but I'd spend days on end drawing flowers, studying them as they changed over time. After university I became a florist (entirely by chance) and then went on to train and work for several years as a garden designer. I also had a short, but very interesting, time as a horticultural researcher for the BBC, working on television output for the RHS flower shows. Although I loved each of these jobs, I couldn't shake the feeling that I wanted to spend more of my days outdoors.
On a visit to Chatsworth years earlier, when I was around 19, I'd seen a female gardener and instinctively thought 'I'd like to do that', despite the fact that I was then fully engrossed in my art studies. Later, as my career path turned more towards horticulture than art, that thought kept returning to me, until I eventually did something about it and signed up to a horticultural bursary scheme here at Chatsworth in 2012, which is now called the Historic and Botanic Garden Trainee Programme.
Once I'd completed the scheme I spent a year working part-time as a florist for the Duke and Duchess, covering the maternity leave of my colleague Sally Burchby. Serendipity then played its part when the cutting garden position became available. By this point I'd already become an avid reader of your Floret blog posts and was following many of the farmers and growers who were establishing an exciting new movement in British flower growing.
Erin: What are a few of your favorite flowers each season? Is there anything new you're excited to grow for the first time in 2019?
Becky: Where to start! Well, the first flowers of the year have the added bonus of signifying the end of winter, so they're always extra special. For us, these are the anemones and ranunculus that flower in March and April. We've been able to grow some particularly special varieties thanks to a 'bulk buy' co-ordinated by the excellent Flowers from the Farm network here in the UK. We grow them in the glasshouses so they provide a sneak-preview of the season ahead, but outside in the garden it's the tulips that declare the true arrival of spring. In my first season here I grew a huge range of different tulip varieties with the idea that the Duke and Duchess, the florists and I would critically analyze them, coming up with a finely-honed palette of the very best. It was a hopeless effort really with so many remarkable varieties available now, so I continue to get carried away each year & grow as many as we can manage. I'm a big fan of Fritillaries in the spring too; both the big bold imperialis varieties as well as the smaller delicate species such as michailovskyi & assyriaca. And then there's the plum, cherry & apple blossoms too; so much beauty.
The peonies signify the move from spring into summer for us; they're one of those short-lived but spectacular seasonal events that bring a lot of joy to the garden in June. I guess they could be considered as one of the perennial show-stoppers that we have in the cutting garden along with the lupines, delphiniums and bearded iris, but it is often the more delicate or textural components that add something special to a bouquet or arrangement, such as honeysuckle, the young fruits of raspberry canes, the smaller heads of annuals such as nigella and scabious (Scabiosa, pincushion flower), along with seed-heads when they're still in the green & the scented stems of herbs such as mint, oregano and fennel. With this in mind I'm planning to add vines, hops, jasmine & more herbs to the garden this year, although I'm eyeing-up a few fancy bearded iris too!
Like many other flower growers, I've become a dahlia addict in recent years and have grown particularly fond of the elegant forms of waterlily and collerette types, of which I'll be adding more to the garden soon. May will see me enlisting our students and volunteers to help get the dahlias planted, watered and staked, but our efforts should be re-paid with their continual supply of blooms from summer through to autumn. As the days grow colder our glasshouse chrysanthemums provide the final cutting crop in the glasshouse. With chrysanthemums I find that it's better to opt for quality over quantity as the dis-budding needed to achieve the big blooms is a time consuming process. 'Tarantula', 'Spider Bronze', 'Avignon Pink' & 'Bigoudi' have got me hooked on chrysanthemums & I like to trial a few new ones each year. The China asters that you've trialed in recent years have a similar resemblance to some of these chrysanthemums, so I can't wait to grow them for the first time this summer, especially 'Moonstone' and 'Valkyrie Chamois'.
By Christmas, the cutting garden is pretty much bare but the florists have the luxury of being able to decorate the house with exotic orchids, amaryllis and other forced bulbs, all grown in a large 'service house' by gardeners Marcus Goodwin and Ian Bell. They grow an incredible range of pot plants for the house, many of which are of historic horticultural significance, harking back to the days of Joseph Paxton and the Victorian plant hunters. There are also well established shrubs of Hamamelis (witch hazel) & mahonias out in the wider garden which are judiciously snipped from in January. Soon, the cutting garden hellebores will start to show themselves providing stunning flowers to float in bowls of water alongside small vases of snowdrops.
Erin: One of the things I love about my job is being able to communicate with flower lovers from the U.K. and so many other parts of the world. For those just getting started, which flowers would you suggest they begin with? Do you have any tips for people who are new to growing a cut flower garden?
Becky: I couldn't agree more, I feel profoundly grateful for the connections I've made with other flower growers in Britain & all over the world. I've benefited so much from their knowledge & it's a privilege to pass everything I've learnt on to others.
My first tip for new starters has to be to put time into setting up the basics; consider mulching beds, laying paths, staking & try to understand what kinds of pests you'll need to prevent.
In my first year I'd seen all the astonishing varieties that you and other amazing flower growers had. I read everything about these plants & set about growing pretty much all of them. Those that flowered were stunning and had me hooked, but the rabbits, pheasants, weeds, and endless other unpredicted occurrences made for a year of overwhelm, and there were more unplanted seedlings than I care to remember! So my advice is always to get the basics set up and grow modest quantities of a selection of varieties that really blow your mind; flowers that you love so much you'll be hooked enough to try again the next year.
For those who are new to gardening altogether I'd recommend sowing some annuals, perhaps something like sweet peas, cosmos and malope just to see how much flower power a few packets of seeds and a few months of warm weather can give you.
Erin: Great advice! Your new botanical print cards are absolutely stunning. Can you share more about the process of creating these works of art? And I'd also love to learn more about the charitable cause that you support through the sales of the cards.
Becky: Thank you so much, I've loved making the cards and prints and I really have been blown away by how well they've been received. Photographing flowers from the garden started as a way of documenting the seasons and soon became a creative outlet for me too – aptly described by Sarah Statham of Simply by Arrangement as a kind of 'visual yoga'. The technical side of setting up the cards and prints is a less creative process but the effort has been hugely rewarding. I can't tell how exciting it has been to send my work off to places such as New Zealand, Lithuania, America, Norway…or even just down the road for that matter!
It's also provided a perfect opportunity to raise money for ASSIST, a charity I've been volunteering with for a couple of years. ASSIST support destitute asylum seekers in Sheffield, where I live. The term 'destitute' very specifically refers to asylum seekers who have absolutely no government support and for whom it is actually illegal to work. These people are extremely vulnerable as they've got no legal way of supporting themselves. They're not allowed to stay yet there's nowhere safe to go and often they're entirely alone. The night shelter where I volunteer opens at 9:45 pm and closes at 8 am the next morning. It provides the basic service of a roof to sleep under, a mattress with bedding and a kitchen where guests can have something to eat and drink. So, at the very least 10% of any profits made from my sales will go towards the much needed upkeep of the night shelter.
Erin: I'm really inspired by this, Becky. Thank you for your volunteer service and for sharing your fascinating story with me. I've enjoyed this conversation tremendously. I would love to come visit you and tour the Chatsworth gardens some day soon.
I'm delighted to give away a print and two sets of Becky's gorgeous cards to three lucky Floret readers. For a chance to win, simply post a comment below by March 10th. In it, please share your favorite botanical garden, or the flower you're most excited to see this spring!
UPDATE: The giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to our winners: Kirsten Young, Susan Fahy and Amy Reinhart.
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What a fantastic cause – I'm most excited for poppies!
Oh I have always loved English Gardens of any sort! So beautiful!! I would love to visit the Chatsworth Gardens one day. I grew up on a dairy farm and my excitement was always walking down the road to my Grandpa and Grabdma's and there my Grandma would be in her flower garden planted by the driveway as you entered the farm. Her flowers were amazing!! I love color and have planted bright red geraniums between the roses and zinnias everywhere. I love all flowers but the daffodil and tulips and crocuses after a lonnnnggg winter here in Michigan give me a joy untold!! Loved this conversation you both had with each other and the insight!! What a Dream and a life of untold blessings!!
Farò tesoro di tutti i vostri suggerimenti per la mia piccola flower farm! Le piccole piante stanno crescendo, diventeranno presto grandi e mi divertirò a comporre bouquet ! E non vedo l'ora che arrivi maggio per godere di tutte le meravigliose forme delle peonie e delle rose.
I cannot wait to see my poppies. After multiple attempts to grow these beauties I finally succeeded. Only a true flower lover understands how excited I was when they bloomed. This year I'm trying [again] to succeed with Iceland Poppies and feel hope after reading your blog. Thanks for sharing all these hints.
I am really hoping the daffodil bulbs I planted rather late last fall come up. Any sign of spring would be amazing though, as we are still under a foot and a half of snow-so for now I am enjoying my geranium that is in full bloom on my windowsill.
The daffodils and hyacinths have started blooming here, and will soon be followed by the tulips, and our redbuds will be blooming throughout the woods before long. I look forward to this brilliant contrast of color against the dull foliage before the trees start leading. I have an obsession with zinnias and have grown quite a few from Floret. I look forward to one day visiting Chatsworth House! Loved your interview and the insight into her yearly growing schedule!
I can't wait for Chinese Forget Me Nots! I have never grown them before and am a sucker for blue flowers!
Can't wait to see the spring bulbs bloom!
I can't wait for my swey peas!!! The choices at your farm are amazing!! I love cottage gardens and try to design my gardens in the same way.
Can't wait to see the tulips bloom!
I am happy to hear about Malope. I've never seen it before and am going to order a packet right now!
I love the gardens at Fort Steele (BC) and Heritage Park (Calgary, AB) they are re creations of what the yard gardens would have looked like at the turn of the century and a bit wild and orderly all at once which is what i wish/hope my yard will look like someday.
I really enjoy the Sawtooth Botanical Garden. It's beautiful, interactive, and educational. I'm excited to see everything this spring and summer, especially sweet peas and sunflowers.
The plant I am most looking forward to seeing this spring is forsythia. My favorite garden is the succulent collection at Huntington Gardens near LA.
That was a wonderful interview and brought back many memories of the year that I lived in Cambridge, England. I experienced so many of the historic gardens, as well as the beautiful home gardens everywhere I went. It didn't matter how small a home was, there was always room to tuck a few beautiful trailing roses or wisteria or bulbs alongside the home. My favorite botanical garden in my home state is southern California's The Huntington Libray, Art Collections and Botanic Gardens. It boasts 120 acres of themed gardens, from the famous rose garden to a camellia garden, which is spectacular this time of year, and a tranquil Japanese garden, to name just a few. They have two tea houses and many lovely art collections housed in a variety of buildings on the property. It's a must-see if you're ever near San Marino, California!
I've only been to the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis but it was amazing!
My new favorite garden is the demonstration garden at Von Trapp Greenhouse in Waitfield, Vermont. It's filled with color, texture and intrigue set in a backdrop of the majestic Green Mountains. It rivals any arboretum without a fee to enter and enjoy.
Excited to see pretty much any flowers this spring, tulips, daffodils and helleborus to start with. One of my favorite botanical gardens, is RHS Wisley Gardens, Surrey. I worked there for a month as a volunteer and it is a gem of a place to visit.
My favourite botanical garden is the one right on my doorstop – the Royal Hobart Botanical Gardens. While it provides a constant array of changing plantings with the seasons, it's the sheer magnitude of the trees that always draw me in. Many were bought out on the first few convict arrivals, and still stand to this day. Although spring is some way off for us – I'm looking forward to planting some new ranunculus varieties freshly arrived in the Australian market!
It would be sweet peas. I have never had too much luck with them. Some years, they would grow, other years they didn't. I am following advice that I found on Floret and growing the Spencer variety that I bought in the Floret Shop. Hopefully, this will be the year!!
This is inspiring to learn about the path that led you to your current job, Becky! Thank you for sharing this interview, Erin! I have never been to a botanical garden but would love to see one before long! Probably up in Vancouver or Victoria BC would be my desired place to start. I am most excited for my new dahlia varieties to bloom this summer! I treated myself to some new-to-me colors and can't wait to see them!
Blossoming branches and magnolia are my favourites in early Spring, but garden ranunculus come very close!
I loved the Brooklyn botanical gardens but I am very excited to see the botanic gardens on Kauai this summer. Gardening is such a lovely thing.
I'm excited and nervous to try growing carnations from Floret this year. I'm new to all this and would love to read a whole article on weed control. Like she said, it's overwhelming at times!
Really excited to see Ranunculus – as I'm growing them for the first time this season.
My favorite garden flowers are in the Spring. I have many perenials due to our short sesson in my region. So I truly am enjoying all the possibilities you show on you site. Thank you.
My all time favourite is the tulip, especially when she lets it all hang down….
I so enjoyed this interview with Becky Crowley…. especially looking out on a snowy day here on PEI :) I can't wait to dig into the soil and begin the outdoor gardening season!
My favorite garden to visit is Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. I am a member and enjoy it throughout the year. My favorite flower ro see this spring will be The sweet peas that I am new at growing.
Thank you for sharing this inspiring interview. It's interesting to see how people get their start in the flower industry. I am an ameteur but am in awe of the large scale flower growing industries and the knowledge that goes with successful cutting gardening. So beautiful!!
Hellebores and primroses are some of my first blooms to spy in my garden. I'm so eager to see these with all the snow we have on the ground.
What an awsome job! This Spring I most look forward to the first blooms from my sweet peas.
As a near neighbor to Floret (Stanwood local), I enjoy the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival each year. And I love visiting lavender farms such as Pelindaba on San Juan Island. I would so love to have a tour of Floret someday.
What an amazing connection and interview with a 'castle' gardener!
Favorite garden to visit – Cantigny Park in Wheaton IL….and flower DAHLIA! the wait all season is worth it to see them flourish in Sept and Oct! thanks for the interview and inspiration!
I am a follower of Becky on instagram and love her posts and these new cards are so beautiful. Finally ive managed to get an order in for salmon toned ranunculus and look forward to seeing their beauty in real life next spring.
Wow! thanks for sharing this interview! The blooming flower is the one I like the most. Sort of like asking what is your favorite fruit? The one I can enjoy right now! Delicious for the taste and soul. Although I am beginning to dream in sweet peas! Drifts of color and scents that call the heart! Maybe its calling me to get more seeds?!
Kew Gardens is my favorite botanical gardens – Erin – maybe we should take a trip over to England together and I will give you a tour of my favorite places! I'm looking forward to the Narcissus that I have planted coming into bloom this spring…….I love their scent but also I know when I see them that the worst of the weather is hopefully behind us.
I am so excited to grow Nicotiana this year!
The Jardin de Metis, Redford Garden in Québec, Canada!
I think my favourite botanical garden is The Horticulture Centre of the Pacific in Victoria BC. I guess cause it's home, cause my grandparents were early volunteers there, and parts of them still show their beauty in the Spring. Looking forward to the first daffodils outside my kitchen window.
I can't wait for my snapdragons to be in bloom. But first I'll need to start the seeds!
You gals are so inspiring – thanks for all you do!
Butchart in Victoria B.C. was one of my early inspirations. Looking forward to daffodils blooming over the next couple weeks.
I love everything that you do.. You surely have the magic touch with flowers.
So much enjoyed reading this interview. Would love to visit Chatsworth Gardens where Becky works. What a dream job!
Recently (October – early December) my wife and I did a wonderful travel adventure to Australia and New Zealand. While in New Zealand we spent many hours in the beautiful Hamilton Gardens, and were thrilled to find their early dahlias just coming into bloom. Back home, we had just finished the big process of getting ours all dug and stored away for the winter! A completely different kind of garden was the one we experienced at Hobbiton, also in New Zealand. It too, was magical and beautiful.
Right at the moment, the flowers I am most excited to see in our own garden are our crocus! They just started blooming the other day, and despite the pesky piles of snow still laying about, the crocus are a sure sign that Spring is at hand, and soon we'll be able to get out into our garden again!
I look forward to the Sweet Peas which were always in my Grandma's garden.
Cosmos flowers 4me so 4medable !
What a great interview! Becky is a stunning artist and my goodness what a dream come true her position is! I am so happy for her and the career she has made for herself. Keep it up! Chatsworth gardens will be officially on my bucket list after reading this! Here in Spokane we have Manito Park and greenhouse and is the only garden/grounds/conservatory I remember visiting. There are many different sections, including my favorites The Rose Gardens, the Japanese Gardens, and the Gaiser Conservatory! My boyfriend and fellow grower had the opportunity to work in the Greenhouses for a year where they had beautiful specimen plants and a collection of orchids. I would love to visit more places and in each find a conservatory or historical garden to visit!
Longwood Gardens is only a half hour away. It is magical every season of the year. Loved your interview and getting to know Becky.
So excited for spring and flowers!!!
Dahlias! I always enjoy them.
Wow, beautiful work. I envy the blooms you can get in England with a moister, cooler climate. For now, I am looking forward to growing so long-stemmed snaps in my garden.
I'm most excited to see my specialty tulips bloom! I love just staring at them peeking out of the ground now!
We are lucky in North Carolina to have Biltmore gardens and the university sponsored arboretums around the state. Close to both my small hobby farm and also my home is Daniel Stowe Botanical garden. It is perfect for an afternoon visit. Very inspiring.
Wow, Becky's work is beautiful!
As for gardens, Kingwood in Mansfield, Ohio is really amazing. Longwood, near Philadelphia, is on my "someday" list.
I love flowers and cards. So having a card with flowers on it is a win win! I am so excited I have found this blog and look forward to seeing the rananculus this spring.
Thank you so much for giving us all a different perspective. You have such a talent for bringing all of us gardeners together. Becky's prints are beautiful. I love to photograph my flowers too. It is inspiring that she does charity work on top of her busy job, I try to make a small difference as well by growing cut flowers and bringing arrangements to the residents of local nursing homes.
My favorite garden is Thuya Garden, a tiny hidden gem in Northeast Harbor, Maine. I drive 4 hours to visit it every year. They grow a glorious combination of annuals and perennials in a peaceful and serene setting. This garden has been a great inspiration for me, I now grow many of the same varieties in my garden knowing that if they can survive in northern Maine they will be able to survive in my yard in New Hampshire.
The Biltmore House and Gardens in Asheville, NC is a magical place for me.
What a fascinating story and so inspirational. Thank you for sharing. Erin, your work is gorgeous! I'm always inspired when I see your pictures. I also have your book! Thank you for continuing to share your knowledge. Becky's work is amazing. I love how she has come full circle, bringing her art background into the garden! In my opinion, nature is the most magnificent artist. I'm an avid gardner but don't have as much time as I'd like to be out in it. My favorite flower would have to be peonies. The blooms are stunning every year!
Becky's work is so beautiful, thanks for this post!
One more place to visit in England !
Becky's creativity is very apparent in her layouts of picked flowers. Now I know why! I envy her energy. She has a very privileged position, but the responsibility must be enormous. One of my favourite gardens near to where I live is RHS Wisley. I love the trial beds and the rock garden, but mostly the shrubs, perennials, trees and bulbs because they ALL have a label and I love learning about plants. My favourite flower at this time of year is probably bluebells.
I am excitedly waiting for my newly planted Black Peony Poppies (Papaver hybridum) to bloom this Spring!
Can't wait for my Dahlias!
I live in the rose capital of the world, Tyler, TX. The Tyler Rose Garden is spectacular!
This year, I'm especially excited to grow Lavatera trimestris and Heliotrope.
I can't wait for all my English garden roses to start blooming late spring!
Sweet Peas are my absolute favorite!
Absolutely stunning! Dahlias are my favorite!
Vandusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver Canada is a treat. Your interview was interesting.
I love the botanical garden in Oakland California!
I can't wait for my sweet peas to bloom.
Can't wait for the Hellebores!!
A very inspiring interview – informative too, many thanks!
I am excited for daffodils, and a favorite Botanical gardens are the Denver Botanical gardens.
I am excited for my last year favorites, 'Rosetta' Cosmos and Blue Monday sage, Salvia horminum. Both are incredibly easy to grow and ever-changing throughout the season.
We're planning a trip to the UK this October. Chatsworth House is on my list of places to visit. I really enjoyed this interview, and I'm even more excited about potentially seeing Becky's work!
I always look forward to Camellias, one of my all time favorites.
I love my deep blue larkspurs in spring.
I love sweet peas. They bring back happy childhood memories and I always look forward to their smell come Springtime. My favorite botanical garden is the US Botanical Garden in Washington, D.C.
I love sweet peas. They bring back happy childhood memories and I look forward to their smell every Spring.
I can't wait for sweet peas!
I look forward to the arrival of peonies each year!
I have never grown Stock before. I am so excited to see how Malmaison Pink does in my garden this year!
My favorite botanical gardens are in San Francisco, California💚💛💜❤🧡 Such BEAUTY and BREATHTAKING COLORS!!!
I look forward to the blooms of my snowball bush every year. They are just beautiful in a vase with very little fuss.
I'm looking forward to seeing how the D.A. English Roses that i Just put in last spring, perform after a hard Michigan winter. The blooms on the yong plants were precious to me last season. I'm anxious to see more.
My favorite botanical garden can be found in Monticello, Illinois, USA. The Robert Allerton estate has been "in my family" for nearly a century (four generations), as it was a favorite place to visit on spring/summer days for my mother, me, my daughter and now four year old granddaughter. The peony garden may always be the one that most lovingly fills my soul.
Very inspiring. I can't wait to plait ranunculus in my garden this year! Of course I bought the smalltubers from Floret!
I am most excited to see ranunculas this spring! This prints are truly incredible.
Thank you for amazing interview. I would have to say one of my favorites botanical gardens would have to be Butchart Gardens in Victoria, Canada. My husband took me there few years ago for my birthday.
2 years ago I visited Kew Gardens in London, even though it was the middle of winter it was still over the top inspiring and full of so much history and information, not to mention amazing exotic plants in the massive glass houses.
I long for warm nights and the intoxicating scent of sweet peas wafting through the air.
I love Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania. So beautiful to visit there each season. My favorite flower is the peony.
I am looking forward to Ranunculus. They are one of mu favorite spring flowers. Snow drops are another favorite, but they are already up.
I love Piet Oudolf's meadow style design at the High Line elevated park in NYC, and the public gardens at Wave Hill estate in the Bronx. Now that I'm hooked on gardening, I hope to travel around the UK visiting gardens there!
I love the gardens at Montpelier in Virginia. My husband took me there last summer for our anniversary and it is beautiful!
I love visiting the botanical gardens of the cities I visit. My favorite, however, will remain my first: the small but mighty Durfee Conservatory on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
I am most excited for ranunculus!
I love the Missouri Botanical Gardens in St Louis. It feels like I'm entering a wonderland every time I visit.
I absolutely loved the National Arboretum in Washington DC! So thankful that flowers truly do connect us all.
So beautiful! My favorite botanical garden was at Cornell in Ithaca, NY. I went to visit their corpse plant 'Wee Stinky' when it was in bloom. It was an amazing experience!
The A line in NYC is one of my favorites.
My favorite public garden I have visited recently was the Antique Rose Farm in Snohomish, WA . It smells absolutely heavenly in the middle of summer and feels like you are in a dream! I am starting my first cut garden this year. In the passed years I have had vegetable gardens but quickly my obsession is shifting to flowers. I can't wait to experience more gardens soon for inspiration!
My husband and I were lucky enough to go to Maui for our honeymoon a few years ago and we visited the Garden of Eden Arboretum. It was simply amazing and definitely a highlight of the trip!
Thank you for yet another amazing interview!! As other commenters have mentioned, the journey of her life toward her current career mirrors my life too. I love the phrase regarding flower photography as "visual yoga"; it made me think of how I feel gardening: mindful, physical, and connected a bigger life experience – yoga!! What an epiphany!
I have been visiting formal public gardens in North America and Europe as long as I can remember. I have many favorites, but a favorite, "humble", garden memory of mine is of the exuberant summer window boxes of the Alpine regions of Europe. I love the explosion of color, the fluttering movement of the "trailers", the contrast between the soft texture of the flowers against the stucco and beams of the buildings, and the amazing quantity of plants in each box way above the street. All carefully tended from inside the house!! They are a visual treat and testament to what extent people will go because of how important flowers to our lives! Visiting more formal gardens I learned I love the symmetry and garden structure created by hedging. Attempting to recreate these features in my own gardens over the years has lead to another important discovery: I hate trimming hedges! So, I have adapted and learned to appreciate and work with the more natural growth of plants to create enclosure, invitation, texture, seasonal interest, and floral material for my home arrangements, and, I am much happier for it. Peace through growth, rather yoga like, I think. Thank you again for sharing these wonderful flower people with us!
Just visited the Botanical garden in Wellington, New Zealand. It is beautifully laid out with plants well labeled which helped in identifying species different than here in the Midwest.
Hello Erin I thoroughly enjoyed this article. I have been to London and other countries but it was when I was 18 years old and am now 36. What an inspiring person this Becky Crowley is! As we read your articles and dream about our garden of what could be… thank you so much for the outlet you provide to dream about and be inspired by such beautiful people and their work.
backyard grower of flowers and vegetables. One of my favourite gardens, a country garden open to the public is Ayrlies Garden in New Zealand.
The Sofiero Palace Garden near the city of Helsingborg, in the south of Sweden. Their selection of dahlias is mind blowing. And the apple trees, oh… It's a perfect place right by the sea, and open to the public all year long.
Thanks for interview Erin and Becky! Love it, very interesting and inspiring story. So far, Versaille gardens and Schonbrunn garden in Vienna was grandest that I've visited.Waiting for my trip to UK and all these beautiful gardens💕.
Best wishes to you two!
This is a great interview! So inspiring to me; someone who is currently navigating the shift into a more garden focused world. I, too, can see little signs of life experiences that have led me here which is pretty cool :) There is a garden here in my hometown called Milner Gardens which is certainly something I love being able to visit whenever I want. Also here on the island I live is the world famous Butchart Gardens which is breathtaking anytime of year. Love love love!!
What a wonderful interview!!! I provide linguistic services at the U.S. Immigration Court, so this topic is very close to my heart. My absolute personal favorite botanical garden is Missouri Botanical Garden. Coming in on second place is the Parque del Retiro in Madrid.
I love Butchart Gardens in Victoria. Lucky for me it is only a 1.5 hour drive to visit. I've been there in all four seasons and it never gets tiresome. It's always a destination when family visits. Some may say it's expensive but each time I go I feel such value for the money I've spent. It truely is a magical place.
Wonderful interview! I lived in London for a year and said often "No one gardens like the Brits!"… then I discovered Erin at Floret and that changed everything!
I am lucky enough to live near to Chatsworth House and see the fabulous work done in the gardens. To say it is such a huge estate, the gardens are intimate spaces full of wonder and inspiration. I only recently discovered the cutting gardens as they are tucked away but they are an absolute delight and full of ideas to bring back home. I'm so happy Becky has come out of the potting shed to show more of her work and artistic side – she will never get any work done now as we will all be looking for her to have a chat on our next visit!! Thank you Erin and Becky!!
Wow!! What an incredible story and opportunity. It's like a fairytale! Very magical and such beautifully planned out gardens. Thank you for sharing this with us. Hard to pick just one of my favorite gardens so I would have to say the Berkeley Botanical Garden and UCSC Arboretum.
Very cool to hear the perspectives of a gardener from "across the pond." I dream of habitants English garden, without breaking the bank in water with my colorado climate. My favorite botanic garden is the Denver Botanic Garden. There is also a really nice mountain botanical garden in vail set up by Betty Ford.
Oh to have a glass house! Here in Minnesota it is snowing again. We have about three feet in the ground. My favorite garden is the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum which I am lately viewing via xc ski trails. I won't be starting any seeds until May but I love to hear about the adventures if others!
Longwood gardens in eastern Pennsylvania. Just magical in every season :) thanks for sharing becky.
Such an enthralling interview. I'm new to flower farming; this is my inaugural year and Becky's story and history is so tangible, that I think I might just be able to pull it off. The idea of maintaining balance between field, glasshouse and office has such resonance.
Living in the UK i've been to Chatsworth House several times, it has an atmosphere to it that absorbs you and you enter a place that time preserved.
The art work is an inspiration! This week I have precooled bulbs that bloomed early in the unseasonably warm weather and no where to sell them. Becky has given me a seed of an idea to capture this beauty before I pass donate them to my local primary school, and will cushion the sadness of loosing a saleable crop.
I'll be looking into a print or two for my workspace, to keep me motivated when this whole venture gets a bit tough.
Thank you for interviewing Becky! I thoroughly enjoyed your post. I love Longeood Gardens and the gardens at Winterthur in Montchanin, Delaware.
I'm enthralled with all this beauty you ladies help bring into the world!
Gardeners are truly the most generous people, whether sharing plants or knowledge or funds.
Chanticleer Garden in Wayne, Pennsylvania is one of my top three favorite gardens. Beautiful and creative, it's very clear that the lucky gardeners who work there are having a really good time!
I love the Butchart Gardens in Victoria, Canada. I was amazed to see blooms I am familiar with – but three times the size I am used to see them growing in Colorado. I love that they took an exhausted limestone quarry and made a sunken garden. Then the gardens kept expanding, over tennis courts, etc. I would love to go back again some day.
Last year my husband I visited Sherman Gardens for the first time- a lovely garden in Southern California.
Oh to have a glass house! Here in Minnesota it is snowing again, about three feet on the ground. I love the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum which I am enjoying lately via xc ski trails. I won't be starting seeds until May so it is fun to hear about the adventures of others!
What a great interview! I've been following Becky Crowley in IG but didn't know her history. My favorite gardens are found at Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria. I had the chance to wander the grounds for hours while visiting last year.
Longwood Gardens is my favorite by far here on the East Coast. Gorgeous any time of the year – the orchid room is stunning!
I love your work Becky! Thanks for sharing Erin!
What a wonderful interview! I actually had the opportunity to tour Chatsworth House when I visited England, about 10 years ago, on a Pride and Prejudice tour. The House's grounds are truly magical! It was so interesting in the interview to read about the daily life of their gardener.
One of my favorite gardens to visit is Longwood Gardens in PA – they do a really lovely Christmas display.
Enjoyed your interview with Becky, great advice and lots of inspiring ideas. My favorite public garden would be the gardens in Hagley Park in Christchurch New Zealand.
Years ago on a first biking trip to Europe we stumbled upon the last day of the keukenhoff in Holland!
It was mind blowing , the swaths of colour , the varieties, the glass houses with exotics !
Parham house and the cuttinggarden from Sarah Raven.
My favorite is the Frelinghuysen Arboretum, Morristown, NJ. They have nice pathways for a stroll in the garden and very interesting collection of flowering shrubs.
The Portland Japanese Garden in Oregon, and the Denver Botanic Gardens in Colorado. Both are beautifully unique in their own way!
My favorite garden is Gravetye Manor. We visited last September and the trees on the estate are worth a visit. What a wonderful interview. Thank you so much for all you do.
Favorite garden is one that no longer exists… Stirling Forest Gardens in Tuxedo, NY! My love of everything garden started there. Waves of planted flowers, beautiful paths, ponds. Can still picture it!


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At the August club meeting, touring director Steve Pequignot offered an amendment to the club constitution in regards to office election nominations. His amendment is to limit the number of nominations one club member can make for any particular office. The premise of his argument for the amendment is to protect the integrity of the nominating process. Currently, as the constitution reads, a club member could nominate an infinite number of club members for an office. This manipulation of a common sense understanding could lead to the entire membership nominated for one office, thus slowing down the process and making a mockery of our rules.
Steve's amendment limits one club member to nominate another member per office. There are nine club officers, so a club member could nominate nine other members, one per office; however, not more than one per office. Any number of club members can be nominated to an office; however, multiple members must do the nominating.
The amendment language, highlighted in RED, can be viewed at this link.
The final vote for this amendment to the constitution will be held at the October club meeting, Thursday October 6, at 7:30pm at the downtown public library, meeting room B. Comments and discussion will proceed the final vote.
Come visit the beautiful community of Hicksville Ohio. The tour begins and ends a Community Memorial Hospital, just north of Ohio State Road 2 (High Street). Registration begins at 7:00 am and ends at 10:00 am. Riders may start after registration or wait for an escorted mass start at 8:00 am.
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Written by Patrick Stelte August 2016
For many years, the 3RVS Century Tour has happened on Labor Day weekend. Phil Snider put on a great event that featured a looped course out of Cecil, Ohio. Late last year, club officer Tim Claypool brought a proposal to the club's monthly meeting agenda.
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Written by Patrick Stelte, August 2016
The position of Newsletter Editor will be posted for election at the 3RVS club meeting on Thursday, September 1st at 7:30pm at the downtown library.
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Night Ride - August 20
3RVS is excited to announce a Night Ride will be held on August . The ride will start at 9:00 PM from Swinney Park West, head to New Haven and return. The total distance will be approximately 12 miles and have a midway stop for some cool treats provided by the club.
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Ride of Silence 2016 - Fort Wayne


By Nomi Prins | 1 February 2018.
TOM DISPATCH — There's no way to measure just how cheery this period really is — not if you're the CEO of a major company. Just as the World Economic Summit was opening in Davos, Switzerland, and President Donald Trump was flying in to put his mark on the moment, PwS, a global consulting firm, released its annual survey of 1,300 CEOs. "The report," wrote the Washington Post's Tory Newmyer, "found CEO optimism at a record high — with 57% predicting growth would accelerate worldwide this year — after lodging its biggest single-year leap, up from just 29% who predicted as much last year." In the wake of the passage of staggering tax cuts for corporations and the truly wealthy, the most ebullient among them were, of course, North American CEOs!


It's very pretty this time of year. Lotsa blooming. Weather is perfect, not too hot.
OK I'm not still in Japan, I'm on another biz trip stateside and having the typical insomnia. So you get more pics from my last trip.
So I walked around Ueno park for a while on my departure day.
OK, now for some knife content. I love going to Sushi bars. Why? Not because I like Sushi (I do… but there are better Japanese foods IMHO) but because you can sit on the counter, ignore the drunken Nihon-babble around you and stare at a master craftsman CUTTING STUFF.
Lots of cuts, big chopping, nimble slicing, delicate flourishes. Its mesmerizing, especially after your fourth Oolong-Hai. I tend to go for lots of sashimi, not a big fan of the rice-bedded items. Anyway, this fine gentleman is Mr. Shigeyaki Shoda, General Manager of Tsukijitamasushi in Shinagawa. Highly recommended and not too expensive.
Tokyo. Home away from home.
Typical high rise. Makes me think of William Gibson books.
Hachiko was festooned with a creepy blue plastic grass skirt thing and wreath. I have no idea why.
In all should be a good Easter, the eggs and candy are ready, ARC LS4+ on order, waiting for NewGraham to have Paramilitaries in stock. Going off to Japan next Monday.
ObKnifeEntry: Calypso Jr used for opening toys, candy bags, cutting flowers, and preparing Halibut for dinner. Mmmmm. Macadamia nuts.
OK, silliness will be on hiatus for this entry.
Anyway this was a Christmas gift from last year, and the intent was that the lockless Pride could be a travel knife to such places with less freedom. The thing is, I havent been able to carry it much. My usual travel knife is the FRN Dragonfly, whose black plastic clip melds into my business attire undetectably.
Fit and finish are classic Seki. I like the stylized clip on the pride, and the slip-joint tension is perfect, just enough to close one-handed but tight enough to saw on plastic or cardboard without fear. The 50/50 choil helps reduce accidental closure as well. Every time I see this one I think how silly it is that I cannot slip it into my pocket for my weekly business flights.
Nevertheless it has replaced my old Case slipjoints for light-duty affairs. So: a proud addition to any collection.
Well forgive my transgression from Spyderco here, but I think I have found the perfect EDC combo. Logically, if having a folding knife is nice, and a fixed blade is even more convenient, then this lil' beauty is the best of all worlds.
I find the longer blades good for larger cutting jobs, and their opposing edges make it easy to keep work material in a specified 'cutting zone.' The smaller blades (thumby and pinky as I likes to call 'em) are great for paring fruit, office chores, or general whittling. Driving and computer usage is a bit difficult, but I'm looking into a titanium keyboard.
The blade is only 12′, but I have found out how truly useful a scythe-format can be for common chores! I carry it stuck in my belt, sash-style, with the blade bobbing openly in front of me ready for use. Sure, some of my office-mates give me 'that look' for carrying a somewhat tactical looking scythe, but what can you expect of sheeple? I have toned down the skull-pommel by adding Oakley sunglasses and a Raiders bandana.
Yes, fantasy knives are a big business.
No, I don't really have any. Not my bag, baby.
Yes, these are real, I saw them in Blade Magazine, and they're made by a guy named Tom Anderson.