Jericho Mystery photo #4 - Pollination

     Jan 18, 2018 - Jericho, VT.  Mystery photo number 4, gives an immediate clue. Vermont artist Mary Lacy traveled for ten months to ten cities creating ten murals partnering with arts organizations, community organizers, and with local artists. She has drawn in children and adults to paint parties helping the murals symbolize the spirit of the community. Her work has added to revitalization initiatives including one in Bethel, Vermont, and one in Chester Pennsylvania. The murals are outside, easy, and free to view.

Mary’s geometric murals like the hummingbird covering a multistory brick wall in Burlington, 

    and even the barn door rooster in Jericho, remind us of the beauty in the environment – in a scale and availability that touches us readily in our daily lives.

  The answer to this week’s mystery photo is that Mary has created a new series of original works, paintings, and glass mosaics, in a celebration of pollination, incorporating native Vermont pollinators and their counterpart, flowers. There will be an event focusing on Pollination on February 25^th  from 4:30 to 6:30 at Karma Birdhouse Gallery, which will include speakers from UVM’s Gund Institute and The Farm Between, bee barn making activity, and prints and bee barns painted by Mary, for sale to support Pollinator Pathways, a program that promotes native pollination awareness and conservation. Kids and adults welcome. Suggested donation of $5 to cover materials for the bee barns. Mary’s Pollination works will be on display from Jan 14 through March 2^nd at Karma Birdhouse Gallery, 47 Maple Street, Burlington, VT.
The opening reception is on Jan 18th from 6pm to 9pm. 

                Answer to last week’s Mystery Photo.

     

     The mystery photo for last week (woodpile next to a stack of kayaks)  spoke to Vermonters’ flexibility. We figure an optimist must live at that site.

     We received this comment from Bonnie and Craig: "Ah, best year ever for getting ahead on the woodpile. Thirteen cords (three years worth) stacked and dry. First-year all three bins full at once. How many times do we handle each piece?..no way I even want to think about that! As for splitting, we use our 41-year-old Briggs and Stratton-powered Honest Abe hydraulic splitter.  All parts still original. It’s seen about 300 cords of wood split so far."

      

    There is no shortage of woodpile styles in Jericho. View images of some of Jericho’s finest woodpiles below. We will continue to add any new entries, just send us a photo of your favorite woodpile.

     How well do you know Jericho? Put your community knowledge to the test in our Mystery Photo challenge. Send your comments to Bernie.paquette@yahoo.com. 

                                                     Best Driveway woodpiles                                     

                                                                Best Scenic woodpile

                                                      Best  'Assorted cordwood and split and chunk' woodpile

 'Prettiest' woodpile

                                                         Wanna-be woodpiles

                                                                    Forgotten woodpile

                                                                Best 'Neat & Tidy' woodpile

 

                              Best 'Sheltered' woodpile.

                                                                                 Waiting to get in.
                                 

                                                                          Shrink-wrapped modern woodpile

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Bernie Paquette and Maeve Kim collaborate on discovering by observation, then sharing photos and stories that make Jericho, like Vermont – a special place because you make it so! To see more of their Jericho, VT photos, visit Jerichovermont.blogspot.com.