ocasiocasa (oh-KAH-see-oh KAH-sah) n. the diverse art born within the house of ocasio
Posts Tagged ‘bamboo’
shhhhh…nature is happening here
This is my ode to the natural world sign I made in honor of all the creatures that also inhabit our small slice of sw florida. They are full time residents, just like ourselves. While they don’t always show themselves, I find that when I’m taking photos of items to put in our shop, quietly [...]
even more clever uses of bamboo…
One Sunday morning, Jeff woke up with an idea and immediately went to work on it. Meaning, when the coffee was made, I had bring it outside to him by his work table and the sawdust was already in piles. He was splitting and cutting bamboo… and joining the slats to very tall, narrow wooden [...]
bamboo vase wrapped in palm lined street
Jeff took this picture of a pretty, and very long, stretch of boulevard with his iphone and his favorite app called toy camera. When I first saw it, a daydream began… Thomas Edison is responsible for the royal palm trees lining the road. Our town is where Edison’s summer home was located. His house [...]
things to do with bamboo…part tres
Our bamboo reaches much higher than Jeff can climb,grows so tightly entwined, and the thin, spindly branches, growing out of each node of every stalk, makes cutting it back an extreme undertaking—but a necessary one for the surrounding trees. Honestly, we don’t mind the workout. I can’t imagine wanting to trade our bamboo for a [...]
bambusa series…number dos
To continue our series of ways Jeff and I have put bamboo to good use, I wanted to show our bamboo stand in its entirety. My best angle was indoors through our window. As I was taking the picture, a grasshopper landed on the window. So… that is what the underbelly of a grasshopper looks like, [...]
bambusa…part uno of a series
Bambusa: tropical, giant, clumping, branchy, rapidly growing, beautiful and glorious I’d love for you to meet a member of our family and beloved bamboo stand — a tightly clumping (yet to be identified) species of the genus Bambusa. It occupies, roughly, a 12’ by 12’ space on our property, rests on the bank of a [...]
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