Making and the Foundation Pyramid
 

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Every successful working artisan I have known conducts their business in surprisingly similar ways and that practice is what I call “The Foundation Pyramid”…

 Supplies
 

The Metaphor of the pyramid’s stable base is supported by more than one leg geometrically & whether its 3 or 4 sided, those aspects, when combined, add up to more than the sum of the parts…

 Result of the Muse...
 

A 3 sided pyramid suits my ideas of symmetry.
Making, Teaching & Selling Supplies keep me busy and constitute the example that I share with aspiring Artisans…

Classes for the Aspiring Artisan...

Cosmic Irony: The Most Difficult Photo

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As a dedicated practitioner of Luminous Landscape style photography, long hours are spent sighting, framing, planning and travel for a photographic window that lasts for about 15 minutes at dawn and dusk

Photographic Hunting Ground...

 

The photo taken at mesa arch captures the holy grail of desert photography, Lemon, Orange and Purple in lurid grandeur… The 50 other photographers at the location that morning left the experience something less than satisfying.  38.388007,-109.864537

Mesa Arch at Mid Summer Sunrise

 

Best and favorite though are not the same. 37.937378,-107.811756…Humor in a photo, especially Irony is an exceptionally difficult assignment …I found what they hide in Telluride quite by accident…Neither gold, nor herbs, but a little dog next to a sign…Of the tens of thousands of photos taken over decades, this is one of my favorites.

Layers of Irony...

 

Natural History Study: Swallowtail Butterflies

Open the Pages of Wonder

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If you have a budding naturalist or want to create one, I know of no better way to start than with the Bronze Fennel Plant. I have kept them as Garden Sentinels for 3 decades

Hiding Among the Fronds

 

Their foliage alone deserves garden space, but they hold a secret treasure: They are an integral part of the metamorphosis cycle of the Swallowtail Butterfly.

 

Fennel & Butterflies...

The giant fliers lay their eggs on the fennel branches and the caterpillars will consume much of the plant in a good butterfly year. The plant always recovers from this service to Gaia in no time.

 

Intricate Fractal Patterns

The caterpillars grow with amazing speed then go off to hide to await the final transformation into the most amazing and beautiful butterfly.

 

The Moss Rose

 

Bronze Fennel is perennial and once started will spread by seed & are easy to dig and share with others

 

Rosa Mundi

Old World Own Root Roses, Garlic Chives & Bronze Fennel are the three primary legs of my Companion Garden Pyramid.