Just a quick post–mostly pictures–of a recent trip that I took home to Kansas. After speaking in Kansas City, I spent a couple of days with my parents and managed to get out with the camera a time or two. I love sharing the back roads and Kansas has plenty of them to discover! A…
One of the fun things I had the pleasure of doing earlier this fall was taking a trip to Italy with a group of five other friends. We rented a fantastic house (http://www.priello.com/) up in the hills of the upper Tiber River Valley near the small town of Caprese Michelangelo in the far eastern reaches of…
Hi All! Just a quick note to say hello from the annual Perennial Plant Association conference, this year in Portland, Oregon. This is my first trip to the Pacific Northwest and it has been absolutely beautiful here. The weather has been stunning (upper 70’s to lower 80’s during the day and 60’s at night), the…
So I was working on a few things for the website yesterday–technical stuff mostly–and as part of the process I typed my name into “Google” to make sure that if anyone searched for me by name that it did, indeed, direct them to my website. It does. Good news. While I was there (on Google)…
Never underestimate the creative mind! For those of you who thought that pumpkins were only good for carving and, perhaps, the occasional pie, I’d like to introduce you to the work of a good friend mine. Every autumn at the University of Tennessee’s West Tennessee Research Station in Jackson, TN, Jason Reeves and his staff…
As a creative person–a designer–I’ve come to learn that I see things differently than most people. As a gardener and plantsman and someone who appreciates, or at least tries to appreciate, the smallest details of the world around me I’ve learned that I see beauty and opportunity in places that most people just walk on…
Once in a while you time it just right. You’re in the right place, at the right time and you actually have the camera in hand! Such was the case the day I was at the Atlanta Botanical Garden in October of 2006. It just so happened that I was visiting on one of only…