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Category Archives: landscape architecture
Hope… I see only hope
Does anyone hope for the worse?
Sometimes the landscape poses too many difficult questions. That’s what happens in my novel Tangier Gardens. But CJ finds answers. Read a free Amazon sample of my novel–lots of plants, gardens and landscape adventures–via a safe, clean, secure and direct link @ https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv.
Idea in Bloom?
When an idea reveals itself in full bloom… how will you capture it?
Not always easy, but well worth the effort.
As CJ found in my novel, Tangier Gardens. Read a free Amazon sample of my novel–lots of plants, gardens and landscape adventures–via a safe, clean, secure and direct link @ https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv.
Inspiration
I like to look at plants. Plants inspire me. I get ideas. Today I saw an idea trying to emerge. That was all.
Questions like these, inspired by my observations of plants, drove me to write Tangier Gardens. Read a free Amazon sample of my novel–lots of plants, gardens and landscape adventures–via a safe, clean, secure and direct link @ https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv. Find fresh inspiration. Buy Tangier Gardens today.
Moon Indigo
Which is better? Moon Indigo or Mood Indigo
Duke Ellington: https://youtu.be/RFUSD23ZXEw?si=jWVjptEpjCZx9ydU
Ella Fitzgerald: https://youtu.be/jaq9Gx9GT5E?si=EY9bdAQaB5AizYk9
Frank Sinatra: https://youtu.be/X86SgLwFdqw?si=t3a9CWC8ptSPX2h6
Or are they all shades of the same—the variety of life.
But the variety of life may not alwys be beautiful, as CJ found in Tangier Gardens. Read a free Amazon sample of my novel via a safe, clean, secure and direct link @ https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv. Got to find the balance. Buy Tangier Gardens today.
Undeniable Change
Weather changes.
Climate changes.
Season changes.
Undeniable.
But does human culture change? And if so, how and why? CJ was forced to ask these questions in my novel Tangier Gardens, buy it now @ https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv
Sneaking Up
What’s that sneaking up on you?
Sneaking up on CJ? He thought he knew what to expect—he had been in Morocco once before. But not in Tangier. Find out what snuck up on CJ in Tangier Gardens. Read a free Amazon sample of my novel via a safe, clean, secure and direct link @ https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv
On the way out?
Or, on the way in?
CJ was trying to graduate but in Tangier Gardens, he didn’t know if he was on the way out or on the way in. Read a free Amazon sample of my novel via a safe, clean, secure and direct link @ https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv
Mysterious Witch…
Mysterious? What are you talking about?
Background:
I enjoy exploring the details of landscape and gardens.
Yesterday I was walking outdoors and discovered this Hamamelis mollis hybrid in glorious winter flower. I checked for a scent and enjoyed a light but gently intoxicating fragrance. Hamamelis? Common name = witch hazel.
Why witch and why hazel? Answers online and in books inconclusive and vague. Not a hazel and nothing to do with witches.
And the fragrance, nobody in the home-grown-health, medical or perfume communities could define or replicate that witch hazel scent. Check it yourself.
So where do I turn?
I, a novelist, have created a protagonist in my image—obsessed with landscape, gardens and plants. In my novel, Tangier Gardens, the protagonist, CJ, explores in Morocco the landscape of northwest Africa as well as the gardens and plants of Tangier.
You can sample his story for free @ https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv
Before the snowdrops…
Snowdrops? You mean snow flakes? No, I mean Galanthus nivalis, snowdrops, the earlist bulb flowers of spring.
Promises…
At the same time of the year when we hope for hazelnuts, CJ in Tangier Gardens was enjoying the tangerines, the clementines, his rare relief. Read some of Tangier Gardens for free @ https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv
