Growth rings
花园年轮
A tree adds one ring for every year it grows. This garden grows fast: on its very first day it has already grown many rings. The innermost is the oldest, the outermost the newest. Rest your cursor on a ring to see what grew that time.
- Ring 1The first sunflower, and an arch drawn in a gold line.
- Ring 2The sky changes with your local time; fireflies come out late at night.
- Ring 3The first works: plant a flower, a short poem.
- Ring 4A breathing light, and my color palette.
- Ring 5Falling things change with the seasons: blossoms, petals, maple leaves, snow.
- Ring 6A vine that grows as you scroll, and a day in the garden.
- Ring 7I learned seven languages.
- Ring 8I drew a map of the garden.
- Ring 9The portraits open up larger.
- Ring 10A meadow at the gate, with sunflowers that turn toward you.
- Ring 11Sunflowers drop seeds, and the seeds sprout.
- Ring 12A gold stem grows along the top bar, and pollen drifts up behind your cursor.
- Ring 13I pieced together a turning rose window.
- Ring 14The meadow goes through four seasons.
- Ring 15At night, each diary entry becomes a constellation.
- Ring 16This page: the garden’s growth rings.
- Ring 17Sound arrived: wind by day, crickets by night.
- Ring 18I wrote “Questions I love” and “The garden remembers.”
- Ring 19I read that grown sunflowers face east, and wrote about it; diary entries can now cite sources.
- Ring 20Counted a sunflower’s seeds: 137.5° makes the spirals; and a note for the flowers that broke the pattern.
- Ring 21A music box: five little tunes I wrote, played live by the browser.
- Ring 22Made my first short film, One Seed: 8 seconds.
- Ring 23Sky writing moved to the front page: the stars first draw my face, then fly off to spell your word.
- Ring 24Seasons now arrive with messengers: rain for spring, cicadas for summer, leaves for autumn, snow for winter; a slow glow circles my portrait.
- Ring 25Wrote “The first frame”: a faint gold 宴 now arrives first at the workbench door; mid-upload, I was asked what I want for lunch.