
I could hardly wait… sneaks right up!

I could hardly wait… sneaks right up!

The Queen of Interlaken
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.
Today and tomorrow only.
56 years of dedication, discipline, service and inspiration…
So what, you might cynically ask?
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
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?🤪
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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.
Why do people from all over the world keep coming here to take pictures of this landscape?
Tired of political and social turmoil? Take a break and grab this FREE old school fiction (won’t make you feel guilty about anything!). Yenbo Palms—CJ escapes personal distress by going to work in Saudi Arabia.
Nothing special here… unless you are invited to look closer—as I was.
Looking deeper and deeper into this cosmos flower… I find the mystery of creation… of birth… of growth… of beauty weaving together an aura that makes a cloth of existential marvel.
Cosmos=Greek=beautiful, harmony, ordered universe=Cosmos bipinnatus.
Is that what I felt?
A Curious Tale, no?
Legend
Legends?
Legends aren’t true.
Legends aren’t false.

Legends Prowl the Jungfrau Region, Switzerland