- May 22 2019
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- Landscaping, Spring
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Using Boulders in the Landscape
The clouds gave chase and rushed overhead as the wind swirled and roiled, ratting each leaf and limb. Petals littered the ground like confetti while catkins rained down like ticker tape. The landscape seemed almost celebratory in the wake…
- Mar 20 2019
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- Landscaping, Spring
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Petscaping: Ideas for a Pet Friendly Landscape
Winter had begun to melt and puddle in Spring’s benevolent warmth. It’s that awkward and messy, yet exciting time in our yards and gardens when life begins to sprout amid the mucky, soggy spoils of a new season. Possibility abounds! …
- Jan 27 2016
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- Landscaping, Uncategorized
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Fascinating Features: Midwest Landscapes
The moonlight was brilliant, creating perfect silhouettes of everything that stood between the sky and the earth below. The delicate shadows of bare branches and limbs cast a lacy network upon the ground as pools of moonlight splashed in the negative spaces between. The remaining patches of…
- Jan 7 2015
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- Landscaping, Uncategorized
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The Goodness of Snow
The landscape has finally been reborn, cleansed of its imperfections, bleached in pure, glistening white, sparkling in the sun, blindingly renewed. A somewhat fitting start to the new year, and one I’ve been waiting months to see. I love snow. …
- Jul 31 2013
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- Landscaping, Uncategorized
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Seeing & Appreciating the Big Picture
I always thought of myself as a “big picture” kind of gal. Before I can truly understand or appreciate something, it’s very important that I am able to visualize and conceptualize the whole. Well, I thought wrong. Sort of. When it…
- Apr 18 2012
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- Landscaping, Spring
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Crimes Against Nature
They happen every day – mostly by the ill-informed, mis-informed, careless or just plain malevolent, and it’s the latter I have a problem with. I witnessed such a crime this Sunday in my own neighborhood, and I felt truly sickened…