Pollockshields: Printmaking and a hidden garden
Yesterday we arrived and here is what I recall of the day: Bus 1, Bus 2, hugs at the apartment, shower, sleep sleep sleep sleep sleep sleep.
Today Gün took us to a neighborhood called Pollockshields for tapas and a visit to the Tramway and the Hidden Gardens.
The tapas were delicious, and Dev acquired a hardhat that he will use back home when helping Orhan with heavy machinery such as the farm tractor.
After lunch we went to the Tramway, a building that used to house trams but now has a gallery, theater, and cafe. The gallery space was being used for drop-in print making workshops, so we dropped in and made prints.
Gün made two pretty abstract prints using letters as shapes. Dev helped.
Orhan went with one of his favorite subjects:
So did I:
The Hidden Gardens are in a space behind the Tramway that was unused and, according to Gün, quite a mess until some local women proposed to turn it into a peace garden. Now it has vegetable and herb gardens, fruit trees, a lawn, a small forest, a smaller meadow, and housing for local birds and native bees.
Some bees were out and about, on the job.
And these house birds:
I have no idea what kinds of birds, because the transcriptions are in another language. Gaelic? Sparrowese? Even Dev wasn't sure.
There was also a xylotheque, a library of woods.
Dev was excited to learn several wood types...
Some were more exciting than others.
Some were in old style spelling.
And some, like the bird house labels, were in some other language entirely.
Today Gün took us to a neighborhood called Pollockshields for tapas and a visit to the Tramway and the Hidden Gardens.
The tapas were delicious, and Dev acquired a hardhat that he will use back home when helping Orhan with heavy machinery such as the farm tractor.
After lunch we went to the Tramway, a building that used to house trams but now has a gallery, theater, and cafe. The gallery space was being used for drop-in print making workshops, so we dropped in and made prints.
Gün made two pretty abstract prints using letters as shapes. Dev helped.
Orhan went with one of his favorite subjects:
So did I:
The Hidden Gardens are in a space behind the Tramway that was unused and, according to Gün, quite a mess until some local women proposed to turn it into a peace garden. Now it has vegetable and herb gardens, fruit trees, a lawn, a small forest, a smaller meadow, and housing for local birds and native bees.
These are the bee houses:
Some bees were out and about, on the job.
And these house birds:
I have no idea what kinds of birds, because the transcriptions are in another language. Gaelic? Sparrowese? Even Dev wasn't sure.
There was also a xylotheque, a library of woods.
Dev was excited to learn several wood types...
Some were more exciting than others.
Some were in old style spelling.
And some, like the bird house labels, were in some other language entirely.
Bird Cherry is new to me. According to Wikipedia, Wych Elm is a variety of elm, otherwise known as Scots elm -and even Witch Hazel. Gean turns out to be wild or sweet cherry. I like the idea of a Xyloteque and the notion of xylology. Thanks, DEV!
ReplyDeleteThank you for these erudite translations!
DeletePerhaps you will translate the bird comments now? I have updated the images with easier-to-read versions. The first says "kuoo kuoo" and the second says "krrr tacc tchaaaa."