The Landscape Architect Series

If you are: 

-A nature lover or a landscape aficionado;

-Curious about all things green—the environment, plants, gardening, horticulture;

-Intrigued about the multi-cultural, mystical history of people and plants, then…

READ ON!

The Landscape Architect series: landscape stories by career landscape architect Christopher Janus—an American expatriate living decades in Africa, Asia and Europe. Lent, doux et melancholique—that was Christopher’s life, his bottom-line blend of personal and professional. Harmonic alchemy—that was how Debussy, also inspired by the landscape, writing the piece in his Forgotten Images piano preludes, would have described it. Listen, learn and read.

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I write stories–autofiction in the literary fiction category–landscape stories set in exotic geographies, about people who have unusual, captivating and inspiring interactions with plants, gardens and landscapes…these stories are fiction about strange landscape journeys.

These are stories for people who normally work hard, long hours and don’t have time for vacations, holidays or relaxing; but do have 5 or 10 minutes here and there…for ‘pop-up’ refreshments.

This is the portal for my landscape stories, they are fiction. But they are real. A walk in the landscape is about unforeseen discoveries.

Discover a portal, cross the threshold…unpredictable, unimaginable, indescribable, transcendent…all possible…
Discover a portal, cross the threshold…unpredictable, unimaginable, indescribable, transcendent…all possible…
 
I have worked for decades with gardens, landscapes and plants. I have learned there are exhilarating portals revealed via each of the different human physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual interactions with gardens, landscapes, plants.  So, I write stories about gardens, landscapes and plants–stories with discoverable portals.

 

…listen carefully, my friend, there are clues…