If you are:
-A nature lover or a landscape aficionado;
-Curious about all things green—the environment, plants, gardening, horticulture;
-Intrigued about the multi-cultural, mystical history of people and plants, then…
READ ON!
These are landscape stories, written by a fellow, Christopher Janus, who had adventures in and was inspired by the landscape.
You may ask what is the landscape? To which he would answer, “When we get out of bed in the morning and put our feet on the floor, we are in the landscape”. What? My apartment, my flat, my house, my town, my city? To which he would simply answer, “They all sit in the landscape”.
Christopher Janus, CJ, studied landscape architecture in university and graduated; but they did not teach him about landscape. He learned landscape from the hardest, most unfortunate events in his life.
“The Landscape Architect” is the title of this series of fictional autobiographies wherein CJ describes his unusual international landscape experiences and his worldwide career. The series reveals the twists and turns in his professional landscape architecture development. But the series explores further. CJ, drawing upon his fine arts history, becomes obsessed with experiences in nature and the landscape beyond the five senses. Beyond the five senses? The paranormal? You decide.
CJ chases nature, its landscape and plants to their existential roots. He describes his interactions with cultures, landscapes, gardens and plants of the world—where the unexpected and downright strange become daily facts of life.
Book One. Tangier Gardens: Out of the Classroom into Real Life…via Plant Portals. Introduced as a student of landscape architecture, CJ goes to Morocco for a term abroad design study.
Book Two. Curious Tales. Through a series of text selfies, short stories, CJ describes the unexpected landscape lessons he learned while in Morocco.
Book Three. Yenbo Palms: A Quest. After a difficult early career, CJ accepts a huge mid-career job in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with its chimeric desert sands. And a new mystery begins.
Book Four. Crystal Vision. In Crystal Vision, W Kurt Milligan, on the trail of a mystery that began in Book Three, continues his search for truth about what happened to CJ in Cairo.
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Landscapes, gardens and plants are a boundless source of existential refreshment–and they are free. Ask CJ.
Who is CJ?
In my books–The Landscape Architect series–CJ is Christopher Janus. In each of these books CJ, tells his own story about his paths and journeys in exotic international landscapes. He has problems. He has discoveries.
Christopher Janus studied landscape architecture in university and graduated; but they did not teach him about landscape. He learned landscape from the most unusual and the hardest, most unfortunate events in his life.
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