On the View From Your Picture Window

On the View From Your Picture Window

Jan 24, 2015 | Design

Where do you really want to put that perfect view?  It’s why you bought your property, isn’t it?  And it might even be what makes your property more valuable than the properties on either side of you.  So why wouldn’t you want to put your house right on top of that...

A Homage to the Digger Pine

Jan 24, 2015 | Nature

The Digger Pine (aka the Gray Pine, or the Ghost Pine) captured my attention when we first moved onto our five-acre homestead many years ago.  Wisping faintly above our monoculture of young, overcrowded blue and live oaks, the irregular, outstretched limbs of the...

On the Permanence of Land

Jan 20, 2015 | Conservation

I was at a gathering of the Bear Yuba Land Trust recently, listening to Joe Byrne and Marty Coleman talk about the thousands and thousands of acres of land they were putting into conservation in perpetuity and suddenly it was as if I was hearing those words for the...