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Not hard to imagine that this is likely one of the most photographed cypress stumps in New Orleans. I definitely wasn't the first person to visit the new Bayou Bienvenue viewing platform with a camera.
The new viewing platform provides a panoramic view over the acres and acres of this Bayou. The bayou used to be a viable Cypress swamp but lost out to the encroachment of salt water and the effects of Hurricane Katrina. The native cypress are valued for their rot resistant wood but are very salt intolerant when it comes to their growing environment. The bayou is now home to many cypress stumps and cypress "knees".
My day in the Lower Ninth Ward blog entry
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April 6th 2013. My shed has been used for painting, drawing, dreaming and reading over the last 25 yrs. Today it was pulled down and will now be used by a neighbour for storing beehives.
I'm going to keep a record of the developments in this little garden in the north east of England; the plans and the building of the new shed as well as the landscaping around it.
Decorated the pond with rocks and pebbles. Made sure there are escape routes for wildlife. Looking forward to plants!
Decorated the pond with rocks and pebbles. Made sure there are escape routes for wildlife. Looking forward to plants!
150527-N-IZ662-257 BALTIMORE (May 27, 2015) -- Personnel Specialist 2nd Class Kim Lewis, assigned to NOSC Baltimore, inspects a plant before adding it to a garden at the Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory and Botanic Gardens in Baltimore, Md, May 27, 2015. Lewis was among 30 Sailors and about 100 local students who volunteered to clean and plant gardens on the conservatory’s grounds. The conservatory, celebrating its 127th anniversary, is the second oldest municipal conservatory in America. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communications Specialist Tom Ouellette)
Escher did a series of etchings showing reflections, water surface and what was underneath. This is as close as I can get.
Southwell Workhouse, Nottinghamshire.
Built in 1824 by the Rev John Becher, Southwell was the pattern for most of the future workhouses in England. It separated out men and women into opposite wings of the building and children were housed in another section to the rear. Even the two classes of inmate - poor and deserving or idle and profligate - were kept apart by the ingenious construction of the staircases and the high walls.
The regime inside was so harsh that it was designed to prevent anyone actually entering the workhouse unless they had no alternative. Although it provided shelter and three meals a day it was linked to back-breaking, repetitive work such as oakum picking and stone breaking.
Becher's building became the inspiration for the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, which made any form of poor relief apart from workhouses illegal. One of the driving forces behind the change was possibly the fact that Becher's system reduced the cost of maintaining the district poor from more than £2000 a year to a little over £500. The building cost £7000 to construct but clearly paid for itself in a few years!
- I've finished painting the inside of the fence and half way through painting the outside
- Finished making and fixing the panels to raise the height of the fence
- The paving stones and sand have been delivered
- Started breaking up the old concrete path which runs alongside the side of the house
- Can't believe I managed to get this huge chunk of concrete out!!! still got a way to go to get the rest out
- Started laying the paving stones.... yayyyyy! Spike was very impressed, as you can see from that "what's she doing now" expression
Pebble Tossers worked hard spreading mulch, fixing gates, weeding garden beds and preparing soil for plantings.
The problem (or is it an advantage?) of buying a new house is that both the interior and exterior are blank canvasses.
In this series of shots, taken over six days, I am cataloging the progress of turning the 4 x 4 metre back garden from a mud yard into – I hope – a tranquil haven.
The process began with the creation of a level (playing field?) area for the terrace/patio from what was a gently sloping plot - down by 50cm front to back.
from left to right
1. Monday morning feeling
2. Sandstone paving
3. Retaining wall
4. Screening fence (left)
5. Planting - phase 1
…the story continues next week, again (weather permitting!) with the final planting, including a Japanese maple in the top right-hand corner and hopefully time to sit and enjoy before Winter!
Design and (hard) work by Simon Bailey; cups of tea by me
150527-N-IZ662-525 BALTIMORE (May 27, 2015) -- Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Evangelia Mavrogiorgos, assigned to NOSC Baltimore, transfers mulch to use for a new garden on the premises of the Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory and Botanic Gardens in Baltimore, Md, May 27, 2015. Mavrogiorgos, a U.S. Navy Reservist, was among 30 Sailors and about 100 local students who volunteered to clean and plant gardens on the conservatory’s grounds. The conservatory, first opened to the public in 1888, is the second oldest municipal conservatory in America. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communications Specialist Tom Ouellette)
Seamus and Shortbread are not happy. They say, "Geesh! What is it with all these girl bears who work all the time. It's making us look bad."
Problem: it's impossible to mow around these box woods. Seamus and Shortbread are supposed to trim around them but they never do. Result: tall grass and angry neighbours.
Solution: Chelsea. She and I dug up all that grass and mulched before adding a few toys to entertain the little dictators and drive the "starch in their undies" neighbours bonkers. Yes, my neighbours will hate that I created a toy village out in the mulch.
Warning: "do not make nasty comments to me about the status of my yard because I will make you regret it," she said ever so sweetly.
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4 feet by 16 feet. bottom lined with wire grid. Sides covered with plastic membrane. Radiant flooring tubing along the bottom.. will connect to the biomass boiler.
A wonderful way to bring a park to life. Derby Arboretum is celebrating 175 years and this exhibition of life size photos was designed to show Victorians enjoying themselves in the park.
It has just been unwrapped, and is ready to be 'carved' and brushed; then cured. I wouldn't say making these troughs was the most fun I've ever had, but in the end I think they'll add a vintage look to the garden.
Creative tree shaping at Levens Hall Cumbria. One of the most significant topiary gardens in the world.
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4 feet by 16 feet. bottom lined with wire grid. Sides covered with plastic membrane. Radiant flooring tubing along the bottom.. will connect to the biomass boiler.
Signs of on-going construction and rehabilitation are in evidence everywhere in the Lower 9th ward but the efforts are far from completion. Each day, school buses transport children from home to school past vacant lots and abandoned or condemmed buildings, but each day there are also more and more examples of work underway to restore the neighborhood to a viable entity
My day in the Lower Ninth Ward blog entry
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This fox was a highlight of my summer, turning up in decent light most days, and this is my favourite portrait of it. Soon the grass got too long and I couldn't get any clear shots but it was amazing to watch at fairly close quarters. It is a very skittish rural fox, a lot less confident with humans than the urban ones.