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I like functional first – I like the garden/park to function, to be based on circulation. I dislike ornamental plantings. I think color and texture in a garden can usually be almost completely ignored – they change with the seasons..I dislike gardens that think too much about plant color and texture..And I like the late 19th century garden…[Read more]

Thanks, Les, interesting comments – we do not want any crack willow, although I seem to remember it did release Frodo and Sam, for some reason..Have to look that up!
(thank you for not referring to ‘whomping willow’ in harry potter – ) … are there any willows in Sword and the Stone? Reading that now..And, Of course, the wind and the…[Read more]

I work for state DOT, and we have had to move people to other departments, stormwater or construction, due to cutbacks on projects…sorry, no info on private organizations..and we are all happy to still have our jobs, even with mandatory furloughs!
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I think my particular Master’s degree was more practical than I realized at the time…We had two years of engineering, just doing the designs with the learning coming with getting the work done, a year of soils, a year of geology, as well as putting together specs, as part of engineering..It was all done through design work, though, which I think…[Read more]

I’m right-handed but use my left hand for months at a time – I find the ability to use both hands helps a lot and computer work does not take a whole lot of dexterity…

Thanks, Nick! I found some stuff from a streambank reveg. federal site..still looking though – we used it really successfully on a stream in Virginia, and I just can’t remember the exact detail…plus interested in application for California ….
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(I do always feel bad when I see absolutely NO-ONE responds to a post, but I geuss we should not…[Read more]

I have to speak up for the Master’s degree in LA, which seems underrepresented here. I have a Master’s from U of Pennsylvania, and it was an incredible experience – the studio masters were some of the most interesting people (and famous) I have met (some weren’t, that is true..). The interaction with architects in joint studios, as well as with…[Read more]

the San Chapelle, one of the most extreme examples of flying buttresses and stained glass, before they exceeded the limits of the technology and the churches actually fell down…it is gorgeous! the Rodin museum – absolutely love it…Loved Versailles, but there are many famous chateaus onthe Loire -Chambord, chenenceaux..all really great for…[Read more]

Wow, Antigonum! I was in Puerto Rico in the sixties and it was beautiful..I am so sorry to hear what you have to say..

apparently ethics can’t get any traction in Puerto rico at all…

check out the DotEarth blog on the New YOrk Times, you may feel less pessimistic..

I think progress is like soup – a lot of different ingredients go into making…[Read more]

the batter of a wall. (hee hee!~) footings is a funny word, really..eyelid dormer..friable soil..most of the construction words are fairly silly, when you think about it – rebars, brushed aggregate, vanishing edge, dbh or at the ‘flange’, drip-line, tip die-back, soil horizons, flemish bond (-age – just kidding!), pierced wall,

how’s that for a…[Read more]

in the cliche department, “outdoor rooms”

I think I found it, Andrew – Home Ground, Language for an American Landscape, edited by Barry Lopez, Trinity University Press – good words in there – krumholz…I think that was the one I remembered..I found it on the New York Times Book Review, search the Book Review since 1981 button, (NOT the whole New York Times…) and there is a pretty…[Read more]

I looked the other day and couldnt’ find it – it was a big glossy well-marketed book..I will try again – seems like it came out like four years ago – I’ll get back to you…

There are all kinds of fun landform words, also, like ‘hoodoos’ , that this makes me think of…karst-fenster, slump, table-land,…a whole book of these came out a few years ago, really interesting…

Fun topic! I can only think of atrocious ones – a new one at the Hotel Del in Coronado, unbelievable missed opportunity to do something great, and they just did same old same old..
I thnk Paley Park in Manhattan is probably my favorite small gardens – great design..For edgy, Martha Schwartz’s Whitehouse Insititute, or something like that, and the…[Read more]

greenies. The space between the buildings.

just kidding. :^}

Olmsted, and that wonderful portrait of him with the rhododendron…

dont forget the Feds, at USAjobs, both planning and LA work, besides just work, if you really get desperate…I know they are hiring planners to go to Afghanistan…

see, Andrew, I told you! Planners make less..Just kidding..I don’t know – despite the survey statistics, I pretty much detailed my salary experience, as a planner and as an LA..
Not to raise the old sore point, but I have also found an incredible pay bump for both professions in California, I don’t know why..A fully employed planner on the east…[Read more]