One-a-Week: Week Five

This week's challenge was to choose a person depicted or named in this Sunday's NYT and create a piece of jewelry inspired by them.

I chose this story about Charles Darwin and his lesser known work with plants.

From the article:

"Visitors who stop to ponder this display will also be able to see, in the garden library, the wispy, primitive drawings Darwin made as he studied plant movement and insect eating. Dr. Kohn said the drawings, which remind him of time-lapse photography, are among his favorite items here even though, as he noted, “Darwin was a terrible drawer.”

In his orchard at Down House, Darwin established a “weed garden” by clearing a patch of sod and tracking the germination and growth of every seed that sprouted there. The Botanical Garden has done much the same thing with a small patch in the conservatory.

Most seedlings in Darwin’s weed garden vanished, Ms. Falk said, losses he attributed to slugs. (“That’s a gardener for you,” Mr. Forrest said, “always complaining about something.”) "

See individual photos for notes and all the One-a-Week Four posts at my blog, or the wrap-up here.

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items are from between 02 May 2008 & 15 May 2008.