Entertainment | 07/01/2009 11:00 pm
wOw Scenes: Our Gardens
Our gorgeous gals have intelligence, wit, charm and, of course, green thumbs! Take a look at the gardens of Judith Martin, Mary Wells, Marlo Thomas and more.
Photo Essay
What do we love about these summer months? The fresh air, green everywhere, flowers blooming, vegetables blossoming and the scent of cut grass in the air. Take a bird’s-eye look at the outside spaces of our wOw Women.
Do you have a breathtaking landscape or extraordinary garden? Send us photographs of your wOw-worthy yards with a short caption at submit@wowOwow.com for consideration in a future slide show.
Do you have a breathtaking landscape or extraordinary garden? Send us photographs of your wOw-worthy yards with a short caption at submit@wowOwow.com for consideration in a future slide show.
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Those are all such lovely scenes, they really are. The photos - and videos that wOw used to run - are my favorite part of the website. The serenity and beauty of nature: nothing like it.
Carol … how I wish that young people in high school or a little beyond were exposed to occupations they would never have heard of or even have dreamt of. Several years ago, the world’s Emperor Penguin expert was on an hour NOVA show filmed in the Antarctic. I listened, and found a few of his statements wrong and because I had circumnavigated the continent and he had been reseaching in one spot for 40 years, he had no opportunity to get into remote sites on the far side of Antarctica. I had been there, studied, the large Emepror Penguins and photos as well as latitude/longitude of where they hidden colonies were. I wrote him. After several months, he wrote back, saying that after all his NOVA shows and all others (he had just been aned Explorer of the World by Explorers Club) all he had gotten before were congratulatory notes. What I could prove fascinated him. We began writing, and then calling to the Oceanographic Institute, and eventually I flew out and we met. He wanted to show him on maps where "my colonies" of penguins were, etc. and it changed his theories and the world’s.
But I used to be an underwater buff, hanging out in the depths earlier on. And he was also the top whale shark specialist. I knew whale sharks - not dangerous to humans but humongous - and I began researching them myself, becoming quite knowledgable in the process. In the next life, I may want to be an oceanographer (as long as I can write (!!) about it. But our choices in life are far wider than most know.
So nature is definitely going to be heavy in my next life — it is a beautiful world unto its own.
I hear that my dear, and well remember that Nova program. What suprised me about it, there are people with NG who knew he had erred, as well.
I have spent some wonderful days swimming with incredible wildlife, and some sharks, but only because I was a guest of a reef expert who knew far more than I about the waters we visited. Now, as you know, water is still the only way I can ‘get around’ since Polio - how I would love to move to Venice, so I could swim to meet you for breakfast (with a mask on!). ;-))
Just to be able to swim to places I want to go, exhibits, shows, the symphony, ballet, and to once again meet a lover on 2 feet all the time.
Thanks Joan,
Do you possibly realize what Joy you give others who are unable to do and go to the Places all around the World that you have enjoyed. Those of us who live in a more contained sort of space and time can just close our eyes and try to travel with you.
As you well know………You are a fabulous Writer. Anyone who can grab you and take you on their Journeys in the first sentence is more than just a great writer……….she is a person who loves to share the wonder and beauty that this World has to offer.
I again say THANK YOU. You give me so much joy and pleasure sharing your World with me. (us)
Carol … how well you express your dreams. Your ideas would be ones (Venice swimming to destinations) I would not have thought of. We each have our dreams, our special places — and as the years go by, we have to pick and choose - go back to favorites or possibly see "the new" that we have had swimming in our heads with wishes to still see. As you know, taking your own words, if I were to die doing what I love, I would wish that to be in my spiritual home, Antarctica. Ever changing with its icebergs like sculptures of incredible colors and shapes always moving in an art display that makes you gasp with its beauty.
Join me after Venice!
Joan -
There is little in life as comfortable as cuddling up with an Alpaca throw and a good book to keep the body warm and the mind alive during Arctic nights - the brain enfolds the daytime beauty while the body is soothed. The start contrast to daily life down below is sheer delight, as well.
Yes, let us move forward to Venice — when your back is healed (swimming will help!) — and I can cast off my wheels. What grand times the boutiques hold for the two of us. The gondolas are wondrous, but our bodies crave the nurturing depths.
I shall forego Spain until the later days.