Via site feedGinkgo applique, available from The Shibori Dragon.
Commemorative plate
Commemorative plate from South Carolina State College. The plate reads “May the golden leaves of the “GINKGO” tree express our appreciation for your service.”
Worth as much for its kitschy value as for the ginkgo trees.
From eBay.
Ginkgo Wednesdays: Photography
Image courtesy of naoK.
Ginkgo Biloba Bench
Ginkgo Biloba Bench, by artist Rodney Carroll. Located at Kids Together Park in Baltimore, MD, USA.
The Gingko Bares Its Soul
All in a rush like a late October flight of geese when the leader wheels to the front and the flock follows, the gingko lets fly its leaves from their stubby shoots— and in moments the ground is a pool of yellow-gold. It’s the same each Halloween, as if the gold is only a blind; and unmasked, the tree waits, bare and mute, until spring—when the buds unfurl into cool green fans. When my time comes, I want to reach out my yellow arms, let my leaves go—not one by one, but all-in-a- flash! I want to fill the dead flower beds and the bird feeders, the gutters, the fish pond, the chinks in the old stone wall— till I’m nothing but wind and weeds and a drift of leaves—enough, maybe, for a child to lie down in and sweep out wings.
Ginkgo Sundays: House and Garden
Hand-embroidered linens from Merletti.
Ginkgo Fridays: Textiles
Ginkgo maternity tee from bumpstyle.
Ginkgo Wednesdays: Photography
Image courtesy of and copyrighted by - Burning Rubber -.
The Lighthouse screen
Originally designed by architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh for the Glasgow Herald, The Lighthouse in Glasgow, Scotland now houses Scotland’s Centre for Architecture, Design and the City. Here, ginkgo leaves become words in the four-story glass screen designed by artist Alexander Beleschenko:
In Rennie Mackintosh’s first public building Alex Beleschenko’s glass panel repeats the words of a speech delivered by Mackintosh over a century ago. Beleschenko inserts another surface of Mackintosh into the building, another facet of his vision. It is a coded and hidden dimension: a text written for a voice translated into image. Mackintosh’s words are changed, a leaf for a letter, into a screen of unfurling and rotating gingko leaves. It is a contemporary manifestation of the art nouveau preoccupations with embellished typography and the interlacing of the architectural and the organic. Taken from a facsimile of Mackintosh’s notes, the transcription reiterates all the ellipses, odd words and misspellings of the original: here a stem at a 45 degree angle ought to be at 5 degrees; there a leaf turned through ninety degrees is missing. The prehistoric gingko is an apt tree for a puzzle: it uniquely occupies its own personal species, being neither properly deciduous nor coniferous. [text by Shirley MacWilliam]
Nimono-wan
Ingredients 1 or 2 sticky white potatos 2 tablespoons of Kuzu 2 cloud ear mushrooms 1 Shiitake mushroom 1-2 carrots carved into mini flowers 1 rape blossoms 1 dried scallop Suitable amount of bean-shaped Fu, (a type of wheat gluten (red)), sugar, soy sauce, egg white, Yuzu, a Japanese citrus, and ginkgo nuts. #1 Cut the top and bottom sides of potatoes and peel. Boil potatoes in a pan. Drain and mash potatoes. Shred cloud ear mushrooms. Mix mashed potatoes with cloud ear mushrooms, ginkgo nut, egg white and thickener. Then make a small ball. #2 Boil shiitake mushroom in syrup adding sugar and soy sauce to taste, boil carrot and rape blossoms. #3 Add sugar, soy sauce and Kuzu into dried scallop soup stock. Serve #1 and #2 in the bowl, top with the thick soup and shredded Japanese citrus.
Source: Hongo Group
Ginkgo Sundays: House and Garden
This past week I discovered that Pier 1 has a number of ginkgo items for sale this season.
I’m leaning toward picking up one or two of the sprays (pictured above), or a couple of sets of the placecard holders. Either would go well with our square white place settings.
(Let me know if the links don’t work for you…I had some trouble with them. It’s like Pier 1 doesn’t really want us to know about them.)
Ginkgo Fridays: Paper
Ginkgo letterpress stationery (the first I’ve seen!) from satsumalynn.
Sugar shaker
From eBay.
Festival of the Trees
Jade at Arboreality hosts next month’s Festival of the Trees.
Submit your entries at Blog Carnival by May 29.
Ginkgo Wednesdays: Photography
This photo, currently for sale at eBay, caught my eye this week. From the description:
The Hachiman Shinto Shrine and great ginkgo trees. Hachiman Shrine was first built in Yuigahama by Minamoto Yoriyoshi in 1063, but later it was moved to the present site at Mt. Kita by the Shogun Yoritomo. It became the guardian of Kamakura. ... (This shrine is designated as a natural monument by Kanagawa prefecture.)
A little googling tells me that the tree is in fact still standing:
Minamoto no Sanetomo, the third Kamakura shogun, was assassinated on February 13, 1219 by an archer hiding behind the great ginkgo tree that still stands beside the great staircase at the shrine.
(emphasis mine) although in this image the view is from the top of the steps rather than the bottom and the ginkgo tree is therefore on the right side of the photo.
Ginkgo Sundays: House and Garden
Ginkgo leaf trivet from 16 Hands Gallery.
Ginkgo Fridays: Jewelry
Ginkgo ring designed by Carrera y Carrera and available from Kane Marie Galleries.
Nippon Moriage Vase
From eBay.
Ginkgo Wednesdays: Photography
Image courtesy of and copyrighted by cosmic_jc.
Golden ginkgo vessel
Earthenware vessel by Jeffrey Patterson.
Pig’s Tripe With Peppercorn Soup
Ingredients: 1 pig’s tripe 1/2 chicken, cut to pieces 20 gingko nuts, blanched 2 tbsp white pepercorns, crushed 2 litres water 1 tsp salt, or to taste Method: 1. Wash inside and outside of pig’s tripe with a handful of salt and 5 to 6 pieces of cut limes. Wash till it is no longer slimy to the touch. Drain. Blanch with boiling water and repeat process with salt and limes. When done, blanch again with boiling water and drain. 2. Bring 2 litres of water to a boil. Add in the pig’s tripe and crushed peppercorns. Cover and simmer for 1 to 11/2 hour till tripe is tender. Add in chicken and simmer for another 1/2 hour or till chicken is tender. 3. Remove tripe and cut into bit-sized pieces. Return tripe slices to the soup and add in the gingko nuts. Boil for another 10-15 minutes. 4. Season with salt to taste.
Recipe courtesy of Rose’s Kitchen.
Festival of the Trees #11
The eleventh edition of Festival of the Trees is up at Flatbush Gardener. Xris did a nice job putting together the first Festival with a theme.
Next month, Jade at Arboreality will be hosting the Festival. Make your submissions here.
Ginkgo Sundays: House and Garden
Ginkgo Stripe wallpaper from Evans and Brown.
Ginkgo Fridays: DIY
Ginkgo leaf embroidery design for machine embroidery from Thread Artist.
Ginkgo fossil
Fossil slab with ginkgo leaves from eBay.
Ginkgo Wednesdays: Photography
chipple, featured here once before, sent me this photo from Denen Chofu, an area in the south of Tokyo. The town symbol is two ginkgo leaves, as illustrated on the sign.
Thanks, chipple!