Friday, November 4, 2022

Contradistinction

Do you know this word, contradistinction? It's new to me, defined as: distinction by means of contrast / distinction made by contrasting the different qualities of two things / the difference between two or more things that is made clear by comparing them...

Photo 1, snapped because I loved how simple and elegant the plantings were. They work well with the clean modern lines of the building.

Photo 2, snapped just up the street, is of a very different style of planting, but one that also seems to go well with the building.

There's a big difference between the two though. One that was definitely easier for me to spot in person. These plants are alive—lush and well cared for.

These plants are plastic. They've never needed watering, or to be clipped into shape. Ugh.

Photos taken in NW Portland. All material © 2009-2022 by Loree L Bohl for danger garden. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited and just plain rude.

9 comments:

  1. Interesting. And a good word for your comparison. :)

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    1. I've yet to be able to work it into a sentence, but I'm trying!

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  2. What a great word! I hate plastic in the garden, whether it's faux lawn, twisted shrubs, or those horrible faded flowers in windowboxes.

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    1. Indeed, there is no need for plastic in the garden!

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    2. Ha! This makes me laugh a little. My grandma used to put plastic flowers in amongst the real flowers in her garden. No idea why. They'd sit there for years, all faded and bent, with little brittle pieces broken off here and there. Seemed like such a typical thing for grandmas to do back then.

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  3. Contradistinction, i like it. And good examples, too!

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  4. A fun tongue twister.
    I wouldn't have guess the second photo was plastic, it looks so real. I prefer live to faux any day, but I'd take the good looking plastic over neglected dead planting strip.
    chavli

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    1. I think the only reason these still look decent—rather than having taken on that blue tint that fake plants inevitably get—is because they are in quite a bit of shade.

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