The Al Khazna, or Treasury reveals itself at the end of the Siq The planet we live on is an extraordinary place. There are so many beautiful landscapes to behold around the world, and some...
The business district spread out along Oxford Street in the Paddington neighborhood. I spent the winter of 2022-23 in New Zealand and Australia. At the end of my trip I stayed for 9 wonderf...
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A variety of ferns inside the Fernery New Zealand is a land of ferns. They cover the floors of lush forests and scramble up the trunks of trees. Or they can be trees themselves growing 30...
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Setting a marble disk in a pebble mosaic I've been building stone mosaics for about 30 years now. My style is very much influenced by the stones that I am working with, integrated with eve...
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Steep topography in the gardens overlooking the Columbia River One of the Twin Pools when the pink Phlox bloom in Spring in the 1970's This is an essay about a very special garden in Cent...
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The central section of the mural, with the Skeleton Catrina holding Diego Rivera's hand, as a boy, with Frida Kahlo standing behind him holding a yang yin symbol. On her right she hooks arms wi...
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A mandala offering to the New Year, 2021. Isaac Hale State Beach, the Big Island of Hawaii Its the beginning of the New Year, one that many hope is a reprieve from the previous one. I've ...
Local basalt and river stones mortared together to make stepping stones between two houses I've been building gardens for over 30 years now. Most of my work has been residential and ofte...
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Warning: liberal political content Art on the boarded up door to Tiffany and Company, 2 blocks from the Federal Courthouse The reason I am writing this is that astrologically I have a lot of p...
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The Dragon attacked by Lions in the Sacro Bosco North of Rome there is a lovely walled city called Viterbo in the region of Tuscia, which can be used as a base to visit three of Italy's most...
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A stepped rill drops in a series of cascades in the Generelife section of the garden. Barcelona is one of the greatest cities of Europe. Best known for its Modernismo style architecture, c...
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For all of my traveling life I have been an avid photographer and documentarian of the places I've visited. I do it in part because I know that if I live to a ripe old age I will not necess...
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Tile panel of a lizard on a monumental wall in the Oficina Francisco Brennand Brazil is a vast country, the 5th largest in the world, covering 3.2 million square miles in area (8.5 mil...
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A sidewalk in the center of Lisbon, Portugal In the mid 1980's I made my first journey to Europe. I flew to Madrid, and then took a bus to Lisbon, Portugal to meet up with a friend. I ar...
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A strangler fig draped over lava stones on the trail leading to the Pyramid This winter I was making a somewhat epic overland journey from Paris to the Island of Crete in Greece. Just befo...
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Beautifully rendered columns of the Temple of Nature on the east facade of the Palais Ideal Many years ago I purchased a wonderful book called Gardens of Revelation by John Beardsley, which ...
http://jeffreygardens.blogspot.com/2019/12/facteur-chevals-incredible-endeavor.html
Papyrus and Cypress Trees, Temple of Horus, Edfu This past winter (December 2018-February 2019) I decided that it was time to visit Egypt. I've been exploring the Mediterranean region for ...
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A section of the Driftwood Wall mosaic in the Humboldt Room of the Homestead Building at Camp Glenorchy This is another essay about one of the many projects I worked on while I was at Camp G...
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A pink Piemontite and Green Schist whirlpool twists through the gap between beautiful stones Geology is a word derived from Ancient Greek; Geo, meaning Earth, and ology meaning the study of....
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An aerial view of braiding in the Dart River I took from a helicopter Sitting on the completed polished Braided River mosaic in the Greenstone Room In the Autumn of 2015 and Spring of 20...
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A fine specimen of Cordyline, the Cabbage Tree I flew up to Wellington for a week to get away from my project at Camp Glenorchy after 5 months with barely any time off. I wanted to have ...
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The Four Elements Mosaic panels set in front of the Potting Shed I've just returned to the USA after working for 5 1/2 months on a project on the south island of New Zealand, in the small to...
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A marvelous skull shaped rock covered in paprika and grey colored lichens on the banks for the Bucklerburn River I've been working with stone for over 30 years, and I have to admit it is som...
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Agave guiengola plants bloom in the Jardin Ethnobotanico de Oaxaca Oaxaca is one of the most historic and beautiful cities in Mexico. I hadn't been there for 30 years was amazed by how muc...
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Water, Origin of Life on Earth I recently spent 3 months traveling in Mexico, including 2 1/2 weeks in Mexico City, one of the world's largest. I've been told that there are at least 24 mi...
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