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On the George Washington Bud Project: The Blues

Matthew Gallaway wrote 4 months ago: In which The Gay Recluse becomes increasingly obsessed with spring. The Weeping Colorado Blue Spru … more →

Tags: GWB Project, Quotes, The Spring Garden, Washington Heights, andy warhol, Blue Conifers, Colorado Blue Spruce, Picea Pungens

On the George Washington Bud Project1 comment

Matthew Gallaway wrote 4 months ago: In which The Gay Recluse is increasingly obsessed with spring. The garden at the end of winter is n … more →

Tags: longing, Photography, Resignation, The Spring Garden, Climbing Hydrangea, Sycamore Maple (Acer pseudoplatanus "Eskimo Sunset"), tree peony

On the City Pattern Project: Our Bamboo Laughs at the Snow

Matthew Gallaway wrote 4 months ago: In which The Gay Recluse becomes increasingly obsessed with bamboo. We planted bamboo a few years … more →

Tags: City Pattern Project, Gay, Washington Heights, Bamboo, Laughter, snow, Views, Zone 4

On the Certainty that All Paths Lead To Oblivion6 comments

Matthew Gallaway wrote 5 months ago: In which The Gay Recluse watches teevee. There are times when we cannot believe how long we’ … more →

Tags: Conspiracy, Decay, dissonance, dream, drivel, landscape, ruins, Search, Sickness

On Vlogging the Snowstorm (Housekeeping)

Matthew Gallaway wrote 6 months ago: In which The Gay Recluse maybe becomes slightly more technically adept. Yesterday we took some foota … more →

Tags: Architecture, Subway, technology, Video, Washington Heights, Weather, Housekeeping, snowstorms, Technical Diffs

On a Snowy Morning in Washington Heights2 comments

Matthew Gallaway wrote 7 months ago: In which The Gay Recluse vlogs. It’s been almost a year since we posted any video, but we deci … more →

Tags: Obsession, technology, Video, Washington Heights, Weather, December, ice, snow, Trees

On the Death of the Winter Garden: The Mythical Hellebore Awakes!4 comments

Matthew Gallaway wrote 1 year ago: In which The Gay Recluse retreats to our garden in Washington Heights. As it has done for thousands … more →

Tags: Washington Heights, Memory, landscape, History, The Spring Garden, gardening, Hellebores, winter, Hellebore

On Our Attempt to Call Forth the Spirit of Eugene Atget

Matthew Gallaway wrote 1 year ago: In which The Gay Recluse is inspired by a classic. Of all the French photographers who documented … more →

Tags: dissonance, Memory, Nostalgia, Pessimism, Photography, Pleasures, Washington Heights, Eugene Atget, litter

On the Search for The Gay Recluse: February 8, 2008

Matthew Gallaway wrote 1 year ago: In which The Gay Recluse ponders a sampling of recent search terms used to find the very pages you a … more →

Tags: Addiction, capitalism, Decay, dissonance, Gay, gentrification, Good Rock, Government, graffiti

On the 2007 Search of the Year Awards

Matthew Gallaway wrote 1 year ago: In our daily travels, we are regularly confronted by some of our more clever but literal-minded crit … more →

Tags: Resignation, Philosophers, Writers-German, Infrastructure, Gay, The Gay Recluse, Weather, Schopenhauer, Corsican Mint

On the 2007 Spruce of the Year Awards

Matthew Gallaway wrote 1 year ago: Though we’ve long planned to honor the genus Picea — or more commonly, the spruce … more →

Tags: The Autumn Garden, The Gay Recluse, Norway Spruce, Picea Abies Cupressina, Picea Abies Hillside Upright, Picea Omorike Pendula, Weeping Serbian Spruce

On the Blue Atlas Cedar in Snow

Matthew Gallaway wrote 1 year ago: The first snow of the season in our Washington Heights garden, and naturally we are drawn to that mo … more →

Tags: Washington Heights, The Russian Blues, Travel, The Gay Recluse, landscape, communism, Blue Atlas Cedar, Venice, Saturnine


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