What makes it all fit together?
What is the magic? How do the parts fit together? The clues are in this image. The challenge might be: how do you get a healthy maturity in a young garden? Healthy maturity = feeling like it belongs, and, has belonged.
…writing in the 1820s Tales of the Alhambra, about the palace of the Alhambra:
“…externally it is a rude congregation of towers and battlements, with no regularity of plan or grace of architecture…giving little promise of the grace and beauty which prevail within.”
Might there be a design lesson hidden in that observation regarding something seen from a distance?
Might there be an essential outside vs inside experience?
Might there be seeing when the viewer is moving vs seeing when the viewer is still?
…outside? …inside?
…this is a great selection of walking, hiking and biking options 10 minutes from home.
Each walk is a pleasure!
Do you have these walking, hiking and biking options 10 minutes from your front door?
Isn’t it curious that the loss of a tree in a park, Gezi Park, and rumors of a new shopping center erupted into a huge series of protests in Istanbul?
Not surprising if you ask the question:
How many of us, city dwellers, have safe and easy walks to inspirational gardens and landscapes?
People can only live so long in cities without refreshing and inspirational gardens and landscapes…then they erupt. People erupt due to a fundamental imbalance in their living conditions. Fix your city, fix your neighborhood, before the eruption.
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I have updated a teaser to the landscape novella I have written, The 23 Club. Please take a look at it and tell me if it is attractive.
Not sure?
Well, if you like landscapes, gardens, plants, international adventure, problem solving, a dose or two of emotional uncertainty, and a good smile every once in a while…you might just give this teaser a try.
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You know, sometimes we are just _so_ caught up in our worlds, especially for business…giggles, chuckles and laughs are needed…maybe in regular dosages!
I made up this seven question humorous Landscape Quiz. Try it!
In 2013, the Royal Horticultural Society admitted Gnomes to the Chelsea Flower Show, but only by caveat that they be used to help grow funding to encourage younger people’s interest in horticulture. This fit nicely into British tradition, well delineated by David Bowie’s 1967 single, The Laughing Gnome, available here on YouTube.
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But the last word is, in a true Germanic sense, very serious, written by Franz Hartmann 1895, Among the Gnomes, An Occult Tale of Adventure in the Untersberg. The Untersberg is a mountain on the border of Germany and Austria. Within the Untersberg are unterwegs connecting…connecting to…Bonigen, Switzerland, where…
I discovered these fellows doing their duties.
Strong flowers, strong stems, strong support, improves with age and careful pruning, surprises with fragrance, overwhelms with beauty…like a good story.
