She’s now using an iPad, just the basic bit over 9″ display. It’s already hard to tell she didn’t draw these by hand! She’s using a simple pen with a tip that the iPad can recognize. Paying $100 for an Apple Pencil was not on her radar, especially since it doesn’t really help you learnContinue reading “Annette goes digital. Sort of.”
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A new evening structure for warm summer nights
Most people think of shade structures, but what if you don’t use your patio at noon, especially in a place with hot summers? Maybe you like to see the evening sky, too. The solution? An evening structure, designed to screen late afternoon light but let the glory of the night sky shine through. When weContinue reading “A new evening structure for warm summer nights”
Easy living outdoor spaces… and a “bigger” yard
If you think a yard is too small, it might be due to a lack of organization more than tininess. Linking spaces, opening up views and being generous with patios give more useable space, all fit inside the formerly too-small garden. Some of these things might be a bit controversial: the front path isn’t theContinue reading “Easy living outdoor spaces… and a “bigger” yard”
Garden update, one year later
Quite a bit happens in a year. Some plants fail, either totally or partially. Others grow; some re-seed and fill in bare areas. Some decide to conquer their entire section of the garden and have to be dealt with.
A step forward: new concrete paths
The concrete was installed today, pumped from a truck into the forms set up earlier, then textured. It won’t be walkable for three more days, and it will take three more weeks until anyone can drive on the banding. The concrete arrived pre-mixed in trucks, with color already added to the mix. The wet “mud”Continue reading “A step forward: new concrete paths”
A new garden comes together in Fair Oaks
By spring, this natural-looking landscape should be growing in. The plants are supposedly deer-resistant, although I say, “supposedly” because deer can’t read and don’t always know they’re not going to like something. Many of the plants are natives, so there should be more birds and butterflies adding life. This is a borderline area, more visualContinue reading “A new garden comes together in Fair Oaks”
Installing a gravel path
How to lay down gravel paths in the landscape.