Garden in the Woods

[matrixrefugee]

 ...Which is the very lovely name of a botanical garden of native trees and wildflowers in Framingham which we walked through today. Perfect day for it, too: the sun was shining and the sky was clean-scrubbed blue. One of the highlights was an exhibit of artwork using natural materials that blended in with the trees and bushes around the installations, including a spiral labyrinth of woven branches, a collonade of breech branches, wildflowers in aluminum "flying saucers" on posts, a yin-yang of ferns and twigs, and my favorite, a circle of tree stumps set in a circle, called "the Council Circle". Very simple and very magical! One of the installations I'm planning to replicate in our yard: the artist and his assistants had taken naturally fallen tree trunks and branches and laid them end to end in a long chain snaked between the trees along the side of a glacial ridge.

And I've found a site that's hosting "Moonlight" episodes: no less than CBS.com has all the episodes to date!

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[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

First episode: pretty good; the reconfiguration of the vampire mechanics is sensible and the vamps so far are plausible (heh, and the guy who plays Mick St. John is *very* easy on the eyes :: Wink, wink:: ). In some ways, it reminds me a little of the TV version of the Dresden Files, so I think this is likely to far more than fill the sadly empty slot I used to save from my computer time to watch TDF when the Sci-Fi Channel used to host the episodes online.

And kudos to Joel Silver, aka "Matrix" Producer-Guy for picking up the options for this: granted, the odd cinematography and the money shot of Mick on a rooftop with the wind billowing under the skirts of his trenchcoat made for a dead giveaway, but hey, we all need eyecandy, non?