My Date with Mickey Meunnig
After hearing about Mickey Meunnig from Fred Stitt at San Francisco Institute of Architecture (http://www.sfia.net/), I wanted to meet the creative organic architect on the cloudy coast. I had heard […]
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Guy Trebay Writes about Luis Barragan
Guy Trebay Writes about Luis Barragan “Finding Mexico City, and Luis Barragán, Again” By GUY TREBAY Sunday, June 15, 2014 NYTimes.com This is a beautiful article about many things, but […]
Glass and Mirrors
With glass and mirrors, the river, the trees, and the sky appear to surround us. The shot I just can’t get is how it seems in the shower in the […]
I Call It “Landsculpting”
My prevailing hobby/obsession is creating a design on the land. I have a 9-acre palette and a tractor for a tool. Nothing is more empowering than heavy machinery. I ❤ […]
View from Tivy Mountain
I need to learn to photoshop because, while I look right past the phone and power lines, the camera does not.
Tuna: A Story of Life and Death
Tuna My daughter-in-law called last night from the other side of the country. Tuna had died, and she didn’t know what to do. Tuna was the wall-eyed Siamese […]
Two Arthur Dyson Houses–How These Things Start
Dennis and I were so fortunate: my grandmother owned the big ranch house on the north side of the property as well as the land on which we eventually built. […]
Windows Are for Letting in the Wind
On a night when my brain won’t rest, done with sleep and much on my mind, I pad across the bamboo floors, tight and quiet and warm on my […]
Curb Appeal
It matters what a house says by way of introduction–it answers the question: what type of a person lives in that house, made those stylistic choices? Audrey Hepburn said, “know […]
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