tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2432339760241985652024-02-06T23:40:06.992-05:00Once Upon a Garden Bloggarden experiences learned and the surprises along the way.Once Upon a Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036689826807657741noreply@blogger.comBlogger141125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243233976024198565.post-67569344358105291822014-08-03T18:53:00.000-04:002014-08-04T14:49:01.103-04:00Flowers of the Tropics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It has been four years since I first looked to purchase my house in Florida. It is incredible how times fly. The older you get the faster times seems to go. The plot of lawn that I purchased is now a full mature garden. I have made a few different sections. The flowers displayed in this blog all come from the Tropical Garden. It is hard to consider that Florida is all that tropical when it can freeze like in New Jersey. Fortunately, that has not happened too many times since I have been here and the tropicals have certainly benefited. These images represent some of my successes. One always buries failures in the garden and with weather in the nineties plants that are not established would certainly perish if they were not suited to the heat, intermittent tropical rain storms and lack of artificial irrigation. Everything shown is in one way or another properly adopted and receives no supplemental irrigation other than the rain falling from our Florida skies. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Cabot Trail is often referred as Nova Scotia's masterpiece. It is a two lane road that loops the northernmost area of Cape Breton Island. This approximately 400 mile kilometer road is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean the Bay of Fundy, the Northumberland Strait and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The landscape is majestic with rugged stones, an abundance of wildlife, and this summer as I looked for a cool place to escape it was as warm as Florida. That aside, it was first circumnavigated in 1497 by Giovanni Caboto a Venetian on the sailing ship Matthew employed by Henry the VII who left Bristol England searching for a way West to get to the orient. Why they don't call it the Caboto Trail only attests to how the English established first dibs on everything even when the deeds were undertaken by other nationals.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Celtic Lodge on Ingonish Bay offered a great contrast to what we were experiencing camping in the rain with mosquitos buzzing left and right. I took a break from my outdoor life and got dressed in my finest and went to have a delicious evening meal and cocktails in this beautiful dining room. You have to treat yourself whenever you can!</span></div>
Once Upon a Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036689826807657741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243233976024198565.post-60228361903605048472013-10-02T00:38:00.000-04:002013-10-02T21:53:26.270-04:00Nova Scotia on the way to the Cabot Trail<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">Marti and I had each driven our own hybrid cars from Florida. We had started the journeys with different itineraries and had linked up in Maine for the 4th of July. We had planned part of the camping trip in Florida and had left wiggle room to adapt to opportunities. We had envisioned about three weeks of camping. Eventually she would return to Florida and I would continue further north into Quebec to visit the old French cities of Quebec and Montreal. I would then do the rounds visiting friends near Ottawa, Vermont, New York and my old home in New Jersey.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I left you in Maine a couple of months ago. Blogging while camping is a hard thing to do, specially if you are not connected to the world with a wireless hotspot (a very different use of words from what I considered a hot spot. The trip to Canada was magnificent if beset with all manner of issues regarding heat, rain and mosquitos. The saying you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs still applies. You don't get to go out into the wilderness (or such as it was) without dealing with exposure to the elements. Leaving our cozy cottage in Rockport, Maine allowed us to experience much much more by way of nature, but it did come at a price. Our first night camping seemed simple and untrammeled. We drove across a simple bridge and we were met by a customs officer who let us pass: no complications, no terrorist threat in the offing.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lubec is the Easternmost city in the US. It is a small little outcropping of houses on a rock in a bay. By contrast to Campobello it is Manhattan in the amount of available services. Campobello has not banks, gas stations or a hospital and practically no markets or restaurants either. It is a place steeped in history that was more than it is. Campobello because of its status as the summer home of Franklin Delano Roosevelt has garnered a special status of an international zone that is jointly managed by the Canadian and American governments in the areas pertaining to the Roosevelt property. After the death of Eleanor Roosevelt in the 1962 the State Department during the presidency of Lyndon Baines Johnson created a special place for this very unusual landmark. Today the park is administered and funded by both the US and Canadian governments. It employs Americans and Canadians alike without much concern for border politic</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">s.</span></div>
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Once Upon a Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036689826807657741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243233976024198565.post-73888164428485707662013-07-12T00:24:00.000-04:002013-07-12T00:24:27.060-04:00On the way to the 4th of July in Maine<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On my way to celebrate the 4th of July in Maine I got wind of the news that it was the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. I have traveled the Florida to Maine road before and have passed what are the major battlefields of the Civil War. I decided I would stop at a couple of these sacred places and try to contemplate what took place. The first place I stopped was the Shrine to Stonewall Jackson. Jackson was one of the South's most important strategist and soldier who had been instrumental and major victories of the South at Manassas and Antietam. Jackson was accidentally shot by his own troops and died eight days later at the rural community of Guinea Station outside of Fredericksburg, Virginia</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Further along the way I stopped in Fredericksburg and noted what is today a lovely colonial city. Little remains of the devastation that took place in the siege of Fredericksburg when it was shelled by northern troops from the north side of the Rappahannock River. Today the old slave market fits in without any of the stigma it carries.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Further north I stopped at the Antietam Battlefield in Sharpsburg Maryland. Stonewall Jackson had a very important role in holding the line in what could have been a devastating loss for the South. The draw that came from this battle allowed the South to continue to push into Northern territory. His death prevented his involvement in Gettysburg and a potentially different outcome I started off to visit Gettysburg but the traffic for the Sesquicentennial Re-enactment Celebration was so severe that I decided I would forgo the visit until my return to Florida</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Once I arrived in Vermont I was deep in the North. Here many monuments reflect the Revolutionary War. This monument whose immensity at 306 feet tall is only rivaled by the Washington monument at 555 feet reflects the Battle of Bennington. This fact made me think that we celebrate our Declaration of Independence on the 4th of July and that we really avoid thinking about the civil war. Memorial Day tries to address all the losses combined. This may sound critical but think about something. Statistics for the Revolutionary War deaths are estimated at 25,000 whereas for the Civil War the numbers are more than the losses of the WWI and WW2 combined at 625,000 deaths. The following monument in Camden Maine addresses maybe something in our psyche that we don't really want to deal with the Great Rebellion of the Civil War.</span></div>
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Once Upon a Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036689826807657741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243233976024198565.post-44908921781582367792013-07-09T22:21:00.000-04:002013-07-09T22:21:27.073-04:00On the Road Again to Maine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Esther swam with anyone who would get in her specially built pool. She co-starred with Tom and Jerry, Gene Kelly, Red Skelton, Van Johnson, Howard Keel, Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford, Jeff Chandler, Ricardo Montalban, Gilbert Roland and Fernando Llama whom she married after working with him in Dangerous When Wet.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">I was in a relationship with the critic from Performing Arts Magazine in 1980's Los Angeles. We were part of the stable of opening night guests to many a performance in the Los Angeles / Long Beach area. Amongst the people I often saw at these first night events were people like Ann Miller, Cesar Romero and Esther Williams. They represented a Hollywood that (at that point) was in the process of disappearing. Much ballyhoo was offered to these stars from other times and they and their guests would be wined and dined for the purposes of creating Press for the events. In 1989 Debbie Reynold opened at the Pantages Theater in the stage version of her movie hit The Unsinkable Molly Brown. As with all of these performances, everyone that could fit into a guest list was there: including Esther Williams and Cesar Romero, who at this event, were escorting one another (or so it seemed). After the performance there was the typical opening night party with the cast and guests and lots of shrimps, champagne and buffet lines. While standing in one of these a woman snuck in line before me. Turning to my friend I let go a stage whisper "Who does she think she is? Esther Williams?" Well, it was, and I knew it, but having seen her at so many other events I felt I knew her when I didn't. She was not the least bit embarrassed and rather friendly about the whole thing. So today we bid farewell to a Hollywood Siren. Esther Williams was 91.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is no wonder I have had a parade of friends visiting this year. As I keep working on the restoration of the house, the upstairs which had served as my non-existing garage, piled with boxes and materials for all matter of projects, is now fully functional as guest quarters. It is still not as posh as the downstairs but no one has complained. So I have been developing places to take my out of town guests. Some have come kayaking, others off to the shore for fancy vistas, others to wildlife refuge and all to the great Greek dining on the Sponge Docks. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So when I said heavy metal it refers to a world gone by. These car were built like tanks to offer protection to its passengers. Nowadays car are designed with technology and electronic sensors to react in a moment of need. An inflatable air bag and a good seat belt will protect you from bouncing into all the metal or not that is in your car. Regardless, it was strange being surrounded by all the nostalgia by way of cars and music. I like the past but try to live in the present as much as I can. I came across this straggler, who like me also made its way from New Jersey to Tarpon Springs. With loving care it will live in the memory of many for many years to come. Happy Gardening!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A poet of extraordinary merit and candor Sandburg pictured above in a celebrated image by his brother-in-law Edward Steichen. A collaboration between the two man put images and words in a 1955 Modern Art Museum Exhibition entitled the "Family of Man." This exhibition was curated by Steichen, then director of Photography at MOMA. It featured 503 photographs from 273 photographers from 68 countries. The prologue to the exhibit written by Sandburg expressed the common belief in the universal oneness of humanity.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The house and land purchased in 1945 came with a Southern pedigree as they served as field gun emplacements during the civil war. Sandburg is to have said that he had purchased a village rather than a house because there were so many out buildings. His wife was more enlightened she felt they had bought a "million acres of sky."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sandburg and Lillian escaped from cold Michigan to the milder climates offered in this rural settings. Sandburg wrote a third of his works while at Connemara.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I came to this hilltop thinking of some of Sandburg's poems. This Christmas much more than travels and holiday cheer was going on. Another lunatic got a hold of a gun a made the headlines in the massacre of innocents. In Florida, one out of every twenty individuals carries a concealed weapon. Some are proposing we arm our schools. When will all this end? When will our politicians be able to think of the people they serve before the ones that pay for their re-elections? Are there no men or women of vision and honesty left? Will we ever regain control of our country or is anarchy the path to freedom and liberty?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Carl Sandburg wrote: "It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?" I think we all need to do this and come up with a better answer...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Christmas arrived in Tarpon about two weeks ago. A fleet of boats festooned with lights came up Spring Bayou which had been decorated with luminarias all along the water's edge. Santa Claus was an inflated figured tacked on top of the a boat until it arrived at the dock where the Epiphany Cross is jettisoned each January 6th. Thousands of Tarpon Springs children where there to welcome Santa and a parade of elves. This was the first I had seen this event as normally I was on the road to Tryon, NC where I have typically spent Christmas for many years. This year I am thinking may be my last as I would like to spend Christmas and have a chance to decorate my almost refurbished home. I hope my Tryon friends will join me next year in a Tarpon Springs Christmas. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As a young man influenced by what I saw, there were no more beautiful shapes than those that I discovered in the architecture of Oscar Niemeyer. There was a certain appeal to the curves and the lack of traditional approach that he took in balancing the void with mass. I always wanted to be an architect and by the time that I came around to retraining, I was more in love with the organic designs that his colleague, Roberto Burlemarx, brought to Landscape Architecture. Much later on, I learned of the role of Lucio Costa who was also an architect but who served to instigate the framework of design and social culture that would hold in place the plan for Brazil's capital of Brasilia.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Many years later through friendships while on Christmas Holiday in Paris I was invited to spend my next Christmas holidays in Brazil. It was a magical month of discovery for not only did I get to see and enjoy the company of great people but I was able to pursue my loves in Architecture and Landscape Architecture in Paradise. Thus in 2006 I spent all of December discovering a country that has always fascinated me. Enjoy some images from that trip and regale yourself in the design and mystique of a renown world architect.</span></div>
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Maybe in these crazy times what we want is a fictional character like Superman to solve all our problems and fantasies. Here's mine. Happy Halloween!Once Upon a Gardenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07036689826807657741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243233976024198565.post-11930877864848833732012-10-07T20:18:00.000-04:002012-12-08T00:53:26.050-05:00Maine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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In a visit to various nurseries in the Rochester area I found a great
selection of conifers but little else of consequence. My friend took
me to one of the largest nurseries and it seemed it would have a
great selection. In fact there were a few choices of Lilacs. This,
is in the city that has one of the greatest Lilac gardens around. I was
disappointed by the overall selection that I saw in these nurseries. The
prices were also rather on the steep end of the curve. I suspect that
with a short growing season and high fuel costs to keep plants available,
it is not surprising to find high prices, which by the way, the locals did not
seem to mind but at the same time they were shopping in the sale plant
area. I found great tropicals and at reasonable prices which made no
sense. When I thought that the trip to these nurseries was a waste I was taken
to a not so fancy nursery on the southeast side of town which proved to be
incredibly exciting. At first I thought I was at a nursery I
expected I knew but this was also not the case. Wayside Garden Center is
located in Macedon New York and Wayside Gardens, the name for the catalogue
house is based in South Carolina. I suspect this nursery existed
before the catalogue house or something like that, as it has not been
challenged by the catalogue house for name infringement. Regardless, the
nursery was quite a gem. There were unusual plants of all manner.
The owner is a fellow that has a passion for Hydrangeas and boy does he provide
the public with the greatest collection of these plants I have ever seen.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Driving down Canterbury Road in Rochester you might notice elements that simply do not flow within the traditional register of the neighboring houses. Located at the corner of Canterbury and Harvard, Massaro Studios and Sculpture gardens allows whimsy and art to blend in a very calm and effective manner. Whether it is a row of curving bricks and plantings on the parkway planting strip to simple stacked wood traditionally seen in high-brow artist such as Goldsworthy, the assemblage here is fun and allows all to see what can be done with a little sense of adventure.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Vincent Massaro has been doing at it since the early 1990's and he describes it more as the process of making art in public spaces rather than putting objects for display. A brief meeting and chat this day revealed your typical neighbor taking care of his yard. But this is not just any yard. Enjoy the following images mixing found objects with detritus that create new objects and change in time to be replaced with new. Rochester has registered his efforts in a Landmark, monument and memorial <a href="http://www.rochesterpublicart.com/public_art/?art=massaros_sculpture_garden#image">website</a>. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><i>Branches from dead cedars create entry totems. Lath and rebar boulders allude to Glacial landscape of northern New York</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Outdoor benches anchored by the broken asphalt, no doubt removed when making the plantings.</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The corporate campus consists of approximately a dozen buildings that have been restored where the entire corporation designs and manages the empire. They have taken a wonderful industrial approach to design based in part on their own corporate product signature. The following are some examples what they have done. We went to visit after my friend Vori who designs stores was working in another venture in a neighboring part of this Shipyard City.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The campus is so extensive that bikes are available to use to get around</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anchored garden letters spell URBAN in old dry dock used to build ships like USS Forestall aircraft carrier mothballed into part of Shipyard still in Naval control</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old industrial building hall serves as restaurant overlooking USS Forestall and Kitty Hawk</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In another part a Cafe serves food and corporate teams sit in meetings</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The chiller plant that provides heating and air conditioning to the complex has a gym on its upper deck.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Once acid baths to clean ship and submarine propellers now house coi ponds along the central hall</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Following a serene Asian theme tree trunk slabs held together by metal strapping serve as benches in front of tree bamboo interior forest</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New pop art graphics with ship ropes and anchor chains serve as interior sculptures</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My friend Vori arranged for me to stay in his ground floor apartment which resembles a stateroom on a luxury liner. He has decorated with ship motifs and art deco appointments. Limo enjoyed darting after his cat and running up and down stairs once again. It has been wonderful staying there and catching up with Philadelphia and friends but it was time to move on to more places and adventure. Happy Gardening.</span><br />
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