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Thomas- you make many great points, I think you are probably correct in most. I guess I had 2 reasons to hang it up for now and go back. First I think I was getting a little burnt out and disgusted with the labor pool. Hard to attract good help to a small company. Seems like all the good ones feel safe with the big guys. A second reason was more…[Read more]

Thomas makes many great points that can be debated. I wrote on another discussion in this forum where I know of a high school drop out who made it big in landscape construction and was hiring two LA’s with master degrees. I was in the design build business for a combined 20 years and made better money acting like a general contractor and sub…[Read more]

Thomas, what’s the point of using “insert block”. Why not just use set them up in a tool palette or just copy and paste from the model (maybe you put your table in paper space, then copy isn’t any easier).

The only advantage to using insert block I can see is that you’ll get a list of only the blocks used in the dwg (if you keep it purged) –is…[Read more]

Hahahahaha!!hee..Look but don’t touch..funny..the Jessica Alba landscape..I love it! I think my landscape is the Daniel shore of landscapes – skinny, dried out, very political, recently deceased..

AutoCAD Table – Set it up once and copy throughout projects. Use insert block for symbols. You can set up all of your text and line weights so everything looks custom, clean and designerly.

If you are still “drawing” your tables and placing “m-text” you are wasting time and should be fired to make room for somebody that actually gives a (&*%$…[Read more]

If you have 15 years of experience in the design/build industry, I honestly don’t understand why you would go back to school for a degree in Landscape Architecture. Not only will you have 3-5 years of lost wages but you will have the additional expenses of going back to school (i.e. 20k/yr min).

If you enjoy the design/build environment, you…[Read more]

wow, love his work

It is a must see this year as they have a collection of Henry Moore sculptures from his estate in England that only came to 3 cities in the US!

Josh – The Western Slope is mis understood. I live south of Grand Junction and it’s called the banana belt for good reason. Our climate is more, much more moderate than Denver with more, not less sunshine. Actuarary studies show the line from Montrose to Grand Junction is the safest area from natural disasters in the US. My e-mail address is…[Read more]

Denver Botanic Gardens is one of my favorite resources for plant selection all across the mountain west, particularly if you are a plant geek! There may be a few plant similarities, but not many. The lower elevation front range areas have a much wider plant selection than the mountain interior and then there are elk, deer and fire / bugs to…[Read more]

What are you looking for? If it’s a solid relationship with your wife you have few options. My wife and I moved here from Virginia 15 years ago. The front range/Denver area was too much like what we were trying to escape from so we settled on the Western Slope. It’s much more laid back here but that can be a detriment. The quantitiy of refined…[Read more]

Also…
The High Desert is very different from the Mid-Atlantic in many ways. But a good plantsman should be able to do the homework and adjust.
And the soils will be quite different as well. Not only the water issues, but the soils themselves. But you can learn that, too, if you apply yourself to it.

I don’t understand why so many people gravitate toward complicating simple things. Editing a text table in Autocad and is no more difficult than editing an excel spread sheet. The difference is that you don’t have to link it or paste it and you can edit or reconfigure it right in the drawing. Sometimes I wonder if we learn “this is the way you do…[Read more]