Getting Hardscaping Right

...hey were craned in above the house. It was clear that at some point in the evolution of her small backyard garden, she bit the bullet and got bold with the hardscaping. While there will be no craning at our house, the point is a good one. Get the hardscaping done first, do it right and be bold. Putting plants in first and then building things like decks and seating areas is a recipe for disaster. Any construction project, even carefully done, caus...

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A Tensegrity Table

...alled at the Hirshhorn in Washington D.C. While more of a traditionalist when it comes to architectural forms, tensegrities make a nice addition to the Hoemgrown Evolution design vocabulary and I’m contemplating a tensegrity bean trellis for the backyard . . ....

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Meet the Amazing Sierra Newt

...imes, though, they get stepped on or run over in busy campgrounds, because evolution did not factor in hiking boots, distracted campers and Subaru Outbacks when designing the defensive systems of the newt. When they decide it is time to meet a special friend and lay some eggs together, the newt returns to the pool from which they hatched–or tries to, since it might be difficult with all the pools in the Sierras drying up–but my guy found his way t...

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Saturday Tweets: RIP Mary Oliver

...tter.com/m3xhIUYBIc — Best of Nextdoor (@bestofnextdoor) January 13, 2019 "Evolution may have less to do with rising above one’s peers than learning to get along with more of them." The first #TeamHuman excerpt has been published on Medium! https://t.co/B3fA5JR7uo And yes: get the book! — douglas rushkoff (@rushkoff) January 14, 2019 These LA teachers striking against privatization + demanding smaller classrooms/more support for their students is...

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Saturday Tweets: Your Own Personal Disney Castle

...the 210th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. Here’s his theory of evolution in pictoral form: pic.twitter.com/IWfL36bf2A — Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) February 12, 2019 Westminster Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, built in 1887 and demolished in 1960. An excellent example of a mid-rise Victorian building, which one could just as easily imagine as an apartment building. I can't imagine too many complaints if new apartment buildings look...

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