Welcome to Litsy!

Thanks @Eggs for the #TLT #ThreeListThursday tag! 🤗

Hard to narrow it down to 3 but:

1️⃣ The tagged book is set in Kauai & I love the combo of memoir, science/plants & history. 🌺

2️⃣ The View From the Cheap Seats-Neil Gaiman essays, many about writing & books—what‘s not to love? ✍️🖤

3️⃣ I‘ll Be Gone in the Dark: Amazing true crime (I had to read it in daylight) but the whole story around Michelle McNamara & the Golden State Killer, wow! 😱

#SoaringScores #catchup
Kauai is one of my favorite places & this book is a favorite too. It‘s about the author‘s #JourneyToTheIsland to work at the National Tropical Botanical Gardens there. 🌺

Even an overcast day couldn‘t make the Singapore Botanic Gardens any less spectacular!! ♥️♥️♥️ Fair Warning lovely Littens: brace for a *slew* of gardening books as soon as our feet hit the ground as our container *should* be arriving in port TODAY after a weird jaunt through Karachi (India to Singapore via Pakistan... sure...🤔). Cross *everything* nothing‘s broken, damaged or stolen and watch this space, the limbo is almost over!!! 😊😊😊

Love the illustrations and so far it‘s been very interesting. Nice that you can read it in order or skip around as different plants interest you.

#gardens #botanicalillustrations #botanical #botany

#ReadingResolutions #BookAndNature 🌳🌴🍄🌺

It was humid and hazy this weekend, so aside from some patio sitting--giving Max some yard time, I didn't spend much time with a book and nature. Instead I have two non-fiction books about nature. I'm currently reading The Plant Messiah and the tagged book is a personal favorite--about a woman who moves to Kauai to work at the National Tropical Botanical Garden. Both are interesting reads. 🌺🌿

{The Book of Palms}

#paradisepark
#palmsandbooks

Trees of paradise: Exquisite illustrations of the tropical palm On December 15, 1868, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794-1868), Professor of Botany at the University of Munich and director of the Royal Botanic Garden, was carried to his grave in a coffin covered with fresh palm leaves.

This is a gorgeous agenda with 52 stunning nature illustrations by #MarjoleinBastin -- I'm going to use them for #artjournaling! #planner #AndrewsMcMeel

"I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living."
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"All transformation appears to be motivated by desperation and emergency."
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"The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war."
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#bookworm #signatureofallthings #elizabethgilbert #nature #quote #botanical #bookquote #booklover #summerread #positivity