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balvenie
Marysville, WA
(Zone 7a)
January 16, 2006
12:11 PM Post #1980768
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balvenie
Marysville, WA
(Zone 7a)
January 16, 2006
12:56 PM Post #1980847
| Tried twice but I still don't get it. Feel free to use the 'regular'
way to visit if you wish. |
drdon
Temecula, CA
(Zone 8b)
January 16, 2006
4:00 PM Post #1981163
| hiya balvenie,
Great to see you here. I just click on your screen name and it takes me right to your diary pretty much. Your tour is fabulous!
best to you amigo,
don |
daylily970
Coshocton, OH
(Zone 6a)
January 16, 2006
7:40 PM Post #1981564
| enjoyed your tour! you're very talented! |
jmorth
Divernon, IL
(Zone 5b)
January 17, 2006
2:22 AM Post #1982315
| master craftman, thanks for the tour |
sstateham
Rockford, IL
(Zone 4b)
January 17, 2006
7:39 AM Post #1982446
| Gorgeous! Love the poppies :) |
tabasco
Cincinnati (Anderson, OH
(Zone 6a)
January 17, 2006
8:45 PM Post #1983889
|
balvenie--
love your diary especially your poppy collection.
And the Blue Poppy is wonderful!
t. |
sstateham
Rockford, IL
(Zone 4b)
January 18, 2006
7:37 AM Post #1984489
| tabasco - when do we get to see your tour? |
fireant13
Mascotte, FL
(Zone 9a)
January 18, 2006
9:19 PM Post #1985834
| balvenie, I admire your hardscape project. You did a great job duplicating it. I also admire your lawnless front yard. The weeping willow in your neighborhood looks spectacular. I also like Mackie's resting place. |
Pixydish
Lakewood, WA
(Zone 8a)
January 18, 2006
11:50 PM Post #1986161
| I liked it all, but I am stuck on loving that garden entryway! Beautiful! And it gives me a few ideas for working with the partial arbor my DH built, but never finished because we didn't have 'a plan'.
Nice work and beautiful gardens! |
drdon
Temecula, CA
(Zone 8b)
January 22, 2006
5:53 PM Post #1993870
| hiya balvenie,
I'm a huge practitioner of peripheral curvilinear sedentary abstract logic which makes me either a really smart guy that can accomplish things by merely conceiving of them or a coral reef. I haven't gotten as far as linking my particular sessile proclivities with a region of ancestry, but this particular Sunday I've done nothing but think about all the stuff I'll never build...lol. I like the idea of a 20ft tall 'sculpture' and would think that a very tall bucket conveyor water feature would fit the bill. As a constant admirer of your work, I'll be watching the 'Westside Story' with a Jets banner rooting against the Sharks because they interrupt the serenity on the reef.
A toast to Norwegian peripheral polycircular abstractions...La Cheim!
best,
don |
sstateham
Rockford, IL
(Zone 4b)
January 22, 2006
7:11 PM Post #1994021
| "curvilinear sedentary abstract logic" LOLOL! I always thought mine was rectocranial inversion. Like your version better.
I have so many drawings of ideas for projects (yes, some on coctail napkins) never started that I had to either pitch them or start a file. Needless to say, I have a file. Just today I decided that I need a pergola over the pool patio. I might be able to talk Skip into that by 2010 or so. Drawing on file.
Stacy |
drdon
Temecula, CA
(Zone 8b)
January 28, 2006
8:03 AM Post #2005982
| hiya balvenie,
I keep coming back here just to marvel at the poppies, the architecture and the amazing discoveries made each visit.
I put chip knife to wood for the first time yesterday. Just a bit of old sugar pine, but boy that thing can really slice through the wood. I'm going to a nearby log yard today to pic up a few practice branches and see what I can come up with.
How is that new garden development coming?
best to you,
don |
balvenie
Marysville, WA
(Zone 7a)
January 28, 2006
12:05 PM Post #2006405
| Howdy and good morning Don,
Glad you found time to try out the knife. Nice thing about chip carving is you can do it anywhere and it doesn't make a big mess. One knife, a strop and a piece of wood, sure doesn't take up much space.
Gardening is on hold due to inclement weather. Except for a couple breaks it has been continuously wet for over a month.At the Thursday night class I put three tiles up for a bisque firing, incised a pattern on one, and put four more in the cupboard to slowly 'cure', hopefully without warping. Location and design of the fountain-cum-bench keeps changing but will seek its own 'level' so to speak, at the appropriate time. My fantasy is to have something like the garden created by Little and Lewis on Bainbridge Island (here in the wet Northwest.) But thats more bucks than the petty cash fund can supply. They do some fantastic cement sculpturing. Looks like I'm going to have to make a small hot-box to germinate the cycad and lotus seeds since we lack both sufficient heat and light this time of year. A couple roses have swollen nodes and are in the midst of popping out for the season. I suppose I could work in the garden today, it would be good experience for a future in professional mud wrestling. Guess I'll go in the shop and whittle instead.
Ciao
bal |
drdon
Temecula, CA
(Zone 8b)
January 28, 2006
12:58 PM Post #2006485
| hiya balvenie,
I'm trying to teach myself how to make scales...fish scales, snake scales, produce scales...lol. The cool thing is in the soft wood it's nice to practice a curved cut as there seems to be little resistance to that incredible knife.
In twenty years and a few dozen stitches I might get good at this.
the tile project sound like its evolving naturally, is there any other way?
best to you amigo,
don |
dovey
Columbus, OH
(Zone 5b)
February 7, 2006
11:42 AM Post #2028634
| Balvenie,
I love your garden entry in the Hard-scape projects section.
I think it's more visually pleasing than the entrance that inspired you.
Dove
|
balvenie
Marysville, WA
(Zone 7a)
February 7, 2006
11:57 AM Post #2028667
| Thank you Dovey. It was a challenge to get it all up single handed. That was the most fun I'd had in a long time. Still have fascia and ridge to do this summer, then fill the squares over the entry with stained glass and see if there is a way to run power out there for lighting. Isn't gardening fun ! |
dovey
Columbus, OH
(Zone 5b)
February 12, 2006
2:57 PM Post #2040512
| Stained glass will be fabulous!
Gardening is indeed grand, always changing and never finished *S* |
