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Landscape for the Thanksgiving Table

Did I ever tell you my wife has a thing for shoes?  Oh yeah, all shoes but especially flip flops.  For years, I have been asking my wife to clean out the shoe closet in our mudroom.  I regularly throw … Continue reading

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Final Day

Today we started the day in Manitou Springs, CO.  It’s off to Pikes Peak for a ride on the highest cog railway in the world.  When we reached the top, we were so high, the temperature was 50 degrees colder … Continue reading

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Connecticut Landscape Heads West. Day 9

The plan today is to make it back to Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado to see Ridge Trail Drive, the section we missed earlier in the week due to snow.  Along the way we saw a herd of elk, … Continue reading

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Landscaper Heads West

Walked the town of Jackson today.  I was there once before in the winter of 1994. What a great western town!  It was nice to see it again outside of the snow season.  We had a picnic lunch on the … Continue reading

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Connecticut Landscaper Heads West. Day 7

This morning we moved out of our Grant Village room.  In the entry road to the hotel, we came face to face with a large, male elk walking in the street.  It was our first up close sighting in Yellowstone.  … Continue reading

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Connecticut Landscaper Heads West Day 6.

Today was our first full day in Yellowstone.  We started the day making a wrong turn.  Not that big of a deal though since we had to see that side of the park sooner or later.  We traveled up the … Continue reading

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Connecticut Landscaper Heads West. Day 5

Woke up at the crack of dawn with all the professional and amateur photographers to see what this magic light was all about. I was taking pictures by 6:30 a.m. with the hopes of better animal sightings, like they can … Continue reading

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Connecticut Landscaper Heads West. Day 4

Grand Teton’s didn’t disappoint today.  149 pictures were taken and after looking at them, it will be extremely difficult to whittle that number down.  I’m starting to think I’m becoming a professional photographer.  It’s too easy when you’re surrounded by … Continue reading

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Day 3

  Day 3 was a travel day.  The one thing we learned today is state road signs are much smaller in Wyoming then most other places.  We found that out after we ended up in Casper (eastern Wyoming) when we … Continue reading

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Connecticut Landscaper Heads West. Day 2

After spending the night in the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, COwe were in Rocky Mountain National Park before 8am for a harrowing 9 mile ride up Old Fall River Road.  A fantastic dirt road filled with steep cliffs, elk, … Continue reading

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Connecticut Landscaper heads West.

As a landscape designer, I’m always looking for inspiration.  I often draw on inspiration gathered from past trips around the U.S., Europe and even Australia where I’ve been to some of the great gardens, parks, streetscapes and estates this world … Continue reading

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How to Break a Rock.

I decided to move a building on our property so it could be turned into a chicken coop.  Before the move, I had to clear an area to accommodate the new building site.  What seemed so simple at the time … Continue reading

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Planning for Outdoor Entertaining in Washington, CT

This blog post comes to you through a recent conversation I had with a landscape client regarding an outdoor entertaining area.  I posed a question regarding use.  How did they plan to use this new outdoor room and with how … Continue reading

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