Category Archives: journey

The Foreshadowing

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The summer’s dark green in the forest trees–only a few days of cooler weather and showers will bring…

 

Amanita muscaria–fly agaric

The iconic red and white mushroom, Amanita muscaria, found in all temperate climates under groves dominated by pines, birches or spruces, is most widely known as the fly agaric.

Easily identifiable by young and old, but confusing.

Poisonous, but edible if properly prepared.

Hallucinogenic–happiness and euphoria.

Myths, fairytales.

Delighting people from time immemorial.

Prominent in Alice in Wonderland, the Smurfs and Mario, the Italian plumber.

So…, what will it be for you?

Go out and find one first.

Under its cap even the little ones are safe.

Luckier than a four-leaf clover.

Band of Zwergs playing sweet music–have they eaten the mushroom?

At home.

fiddysix

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Today and tomorrow only.

56 years of dedication, discipline, service and inspiration…

So what, you might cynically ask?

The first snowfall of the winter…

We are in… the Northern Hemisphere, the first snowfall, the hope of Christmas and the first week of Advent—I want to celebrate.

In mid-career, CJ, in the Jungfrau Region of the Swiss Alps, seeking to balance his personal and professional life, discovers an ethereal link between culture and landscape.

—so here is a great story I have written about how the landscape heals personal hurt—Crystal Vision. Free ebook—short time—DOWNLOAD NOW. IT’S FREE UNTIL MIDNIGHT, 15DEC2025—GET IT NOW—here’s the safe WeTransfer link: https://we.tl/t-S34P0CJPHr

Do It Now

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It’s me again—the hypocrite

with a black-friday weekend special

you can’t beat this deal

jump on it

FREE

watch someone else struggle with life

watch the failures

hope for the successes

a short fast fun read

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don’t you just hate these black-friday pushers!!!

Me too, the hypocrite.

I’m a Hypocrite

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Hypocrite—that’s me because even though I hate this seasonal hype… I’m still going to do it myself. 

…isn’t being a hypocrite a thing these days?🤪

Hypocrite–you’ll have to live with that.🤪

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FLASH SALE 

My book, Curious Tales, is a lose-yourself-in-it kind of fiction about an American college student trying to come to grips with his six months in North Africa. The e-book is FREE on Amazon from 26-30November2025. 

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🍀🎉Celebration Time C’mon!🎉🍀

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After decades of American and international landscape architecture and landscape experience, I concluded there was more to landscape architecture than science, horticulture, botany, hardscape and design.

So I started writing landscape stories—a genre nobody has ever heard of. This year I have finished my first series entitled ‘The Landscape Architect’.

The series has six books that trace the career of a landscape architect from university through retirement. In these books, the American protagonist, in his own words, addresses head-on all life’s twists and turns, seeking, as we all do, a healthy balance between personal life and work.

But, that balance can rarely be achieved because the protagonist constantly faces, in the Western European, North African and Middle Eastern places he lives and works, enigmatic challenges from those strange cultures and even stranger landscapes.

🍀!🎉!To celebrate the completion of that series, I offer free to everyone, the e-book version of book three, Yenbo Palms, where the protagonist, suffering from an horrendous family disaster at home in the USA, goes far, far away to work on a huge project in Saudi Arabia. Click on the following safe link to download the FREE Yenbo Palms e-book. https://bit.ly/4qBM3c1

Beautiful, inspiring… until you listen to local people describing it… then it, the landscape, becomes enigmatic—IRL mystifying.