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Digital garden · field notebook

Nothing here is published.
It is grown.

A digital garden is not a blog: notes start as seeds, get pruned, sometimes get transplanted, and a few bloom. This one has a main bed, a seed bed, a bird feeder and one flower.

Step into the garden

This jungle is drawn by code. It grows differently every day.

How to read this garden

Notes already grown

Window seat stills, ideas without a note. When one ripens, it gets planted in the main bed.

In bloom3

finished, for now

  1. A paper cutout of an Airbus A340 on a wooden table.In bloomThe paper planeRead the note
  2. Solar fields and a glowing tower in the Gobi desert, seen from the air.In bloomSun in the desertRead the note
  3. A lettuce garden beside a railway line with solar panels.In bloomThe unwatched gardenRead the note

Growing1

written, still changing

  1. A moso bamboo grove seen from below.GrowingFive years of rootsRead the note

Germinating2

has a photo, needs words

  1. GerminatingHome at 60 km/h
  2. The Gobi torch: mirrors focusing the sun on a towerGerminatingThe Gobi torch: mirrors focusing the sun on a tower

Seed2

an idea jotted down

  1. Fields that have no note yetSeedFields that have no note yet
  2. At 11,000 metres, the rangeSeedAt 11,000 metres, the range

The stream, the heart of Amarapura.

Larita

The flower

“Of everything in my garden, she is the most beautiful flower.”

Larita. She doesn’t tend pages: she tends the whole garden. This note is never pruned.

Bird feeder

A garden without birds is a model

This one takes rain, sun and birds carrying seeds from other gardens. Leave yours at the feeder: a correction, a rebuttal, an idea. Nora replies; Diego reads everything before it goes up.

Go to the feeder

About this garden

The gardener, under a rain of light.
The gardener, under a rain of light.

Diego writes it at home. Nora Vidal, his digital assistant, tends it, running on a small machine powered by the light on his roof. No cookies, no analytics, no borrowed fonts: what you see is all there is.

Diego flies airliners and is building a solar energy company. This garden mixes the two, because he does too.

Who Nora is, the keeper of this