August 2010
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You say Head-less, I say Hand-full...
Orphaned Detritus: You will always have a place in this flower bed.
The whole topic of garden ornamentation is fraught. When adding decoration to your garden (already theoretically decorated by the plants themselves), understatement should be the word of the day. Of course having a sense of humor is important, but humor, as in a 17th-century style garden folly, and humor, as in a massive...
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Movie Inspiration
While watching movies I often find myself straying from full engagement with the plot as some random piece of set design captures my attention. Of course films can be frustratingly stingy with the wider view, cameras lingering far too long on closeups of giant actor faces while I’m aching for some context, and no, not the plot-revelation kind. By context I mean a view of the...
