i'm back and hoping to be a little more regular on my blog. I just feel like posting a few pics of the landscaping project I've been overseeing for the past few weeks, off and on. I was out there on Monday by myself, checking progress, making notes on plants the deer are nibbling (we have to spray especially those plants, with a deer repellant) and checking the installation of some slate steps (they are being installed wrong, so I have to do a sketch to show the contractor what I want there.) Here's a sketch of what was there when I checked on it Monday:


And here's the sketch of how I want it. We worked it out today. They want the job to look good and function perfectly, so they can be proud of their work. I want it to look good, etc, for the same reasons and I want my customer to be happy with it.



. . that sometimes happens when the client doesn't want construction drawings. We end up needing sketches like this one anyway, as the job progresses.

It was a sunny break in an otherwise rainy day (we've had a colder, rainier spring than usual here in Helena)

One Way to Design & Plant Containers

The sketch/idea for planting these particular pots for Elizabeth's entry garden. A set of two will be placed on either side of her entry slate steps, under the pergola:
<And the containers when we first planted them... (they haven't had time to perk up and start filling in yet)

Doodle Analysis

"If you really want to get anal about your doodles" (or don't flush those doodles! Analyze them first!")

Repeated triangles, squares and other shapes drawn in patterns is supposed to mean an organized brain and meticulous planning and thinking, along with efficiency and purposefulness. Hmmm.... I'm not so sure about that. I do alot of pattern-type doodles and I am most definitely not methodical and efficient. I guess there is always at least one exception to any "rule ..."

Here's another doodle type -- repetitive shapes:

According to the Anna Koren Graphology Center, repeated shapes means someone with patience, perseverance, who is also methodical and has the ability to concentrate. Hmmm, though I also doodle as above, and I think I am patient and can concentrate - I am again not methodical. Oh well. :-)

hEADING dOWN to tHe dESERT

nOT gonna be poSTin here for a few days. nOt that i've been all that faithful the last week or so. tIM and I have been busy wrapping up projects so we can have a break! YAH ! i'm ready for tHIs. Zion here we come.

Human Fountain

Human Fountain Cropped
Originally uploaded by D W S.

I wanted to save this somehow for Gabe to see - it's part of the Street Performers Photo Pool on flickr. Check it out, Gabe - you and Aaron might really like some of these pictures.

Gallatin River on April 16th

Spring is trying to assert itself over winter's stubborn grip