Healing Landscapes

Here’s a good resource for anyone interested in healthcare garden design: Healing Landscapes.org.

The website is setup as a database to provide information on landscapes that promote health and well-being. Naomi Sachs, a landscape architect with an MLA from the University of California, Berkeley, is the Founder and Director of the Therapeutic [...]

Book Review: Last Child in the Woods

Last Child in the Woods Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder

By Richard Louv

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006

Over the last 30 years the relationship that children have with the natural world has changed dramatically. The divide that has formed between children and the outdoors and the environmental, social, psychological, and spiritual [...]

The Love of Dirt

The Love of Dirt

The love of dirt is among the earliest

of passions, as it is the latest.

Mudpies gratify one of our first and best

instincts.  So long as we are dirty,

we are pure.  Fondness for the ground

comes back to a man after he has run

the round of [...]

Using Historical Photographs to Inform Design

If you haven’t already seen it, take just a few moments to check out this online collection of historical photographs.  It really does help ground one in the memory of the place and how we ended up where we are today.

For many locations in Colorado you can just type [...]

Sand Art

Another real-time animation technique:  Watch sand artist  Ilana Yahav create beautiful animations as her fingers draw with sand on a glass table. She takes finger painting to a whole new level.