Category Archives: landscape architecture

Set Me Free

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There are days… and they are coming all too frequently now, where the extremes of the socio-politico left and right, incessantly brought to us—by the streamers, the pop-citizen-journalists, and the traditional media—are just horribly unbearable.

The fix?

I go outside and walk. The quiet breezes from the forest and lake clear away the gaslighted, scum-generated tensions.

And the day begins again.

Do It Now

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It’s me again—the hypocrite

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watch someone else struggle with life

watch the failures

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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.🤪

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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.

 

Marabout

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I’ve been away, updating my first two books, Tangier Gardens and Curious Tales. At the same time I was wrapping up my series, “The Landscape Architect”.

Marabout… represents the diaphanous line that separates fact from fiction in the landscape. And that is what challenged, what fascinated CJ in my first two books.

Marabout!? What’s that?

 

Marabout the photo, courtesy of Jean-Claude Latombe (https://ai.stanford.edu/~latombe/mountain/index.htm), is a small part of the mysterious Moroccan landscape. IRL, you see the outside but have no idea what you will find on the inside.

In Tangier Gardens, CJ learned all about marabouts and their arcane insides. He tried to fit those experiences into his American landscape roots—his culture, his education. The result? Strange landscape stories.

 

Inspired by Landscape? Try this…

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I write landscape stories. Hijaz landscape on the Red Sea in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia. Water or no water?

Inspired by landscape?

You’ll love my landscape stories… Saudi, Red Sea, Lawrence of Arabia… Just published Yenbo Palms. Try it for free at Amazon via this link: https://tinyurl.com/mnmwktmr