bath design ideas

found these in bath section of heath ceramics installations

front yard fence?? Trellis Stix

these are really fun and look nicely made, many choices and also trellises and arbors, gates etc... wow. I like them so much that I will need to be careful to not make our house look like some tea garden woodworking shop...

see  http://www.latticestix.com/product_info.php?cPath=468_476_482&products_id=867

Barn Owls sighting in backyard!

I walked outside  tonight after hearing the "grow to love it sound" of our "eat the rats"  friends- the screeches of the  Barn owls. 15 feet into our backyard, perched in a  short bushy pine tree was the beautiful white disc face - staring at me and doing that funny head dance they do while feeling curiously threatened. Sky dark indigo, glowing owl face within a jump of me- so awesome. It was probably the male (smaller and whiter than the female- and less busy tending the screaming hungry babies). He  looked at me for nearly 15 minutes before growing bored and going hunting...When we moved into our house, they were nesting directly across the street in neighbors  huge palm tree. My first painting party before we moved in  involved 6 mommies  from my hospital nursing group, 2 gallons of Ben Moore no VOC robins egg blue, an MP3 player,  3 Extreme pizzas and lots of good wine- albeit in plastic cups. It was a good time and we DID get the room painted. Shortly after the kid room was painted and the party had disbanded, I pulled up a rickety left behind painting chair from the sellers, placed it out in the atrium and had some more wine to toast our new home. It was dark with no lighting in atrium, past midnight, and I was not driving anytime soon. I leaned back , looked into the stars above and saw a flash of silent white bird belly float overhead, then the screeches and strange racket began. They screeched for nearly 2 hours. I love them. The constant night sounds give me a  feeling of inclusion and balance-  the natural world is here even with the cars and phones  and hectic human activities.

http://www.hungryowl.org/:

great local folks dedicated to helping owls, building nesting boxes, live web cams etc...  check out their site!

  I hadn't heard them for some  6 months now and had grown worried that a  neighbor had ignorantly set out rodenticides or round-up.   ( It is illegal to disturb their nests and using poisons near their nesting areas is just stupid).   I am so excited to know that they are back. The local rodents are not. now... should I make an owl box? 

another landscapiung rampage

look at:   (their site was down earlier...) http://www.orangestreetstudio.com/project-index/residential/bubalo/

pics from awesomeness:

corten steel walkway with underlights...

http://www.acochran.com/

more landscape design .. obsessing finally a hill solution

http://www.robsteinergardens.com/gardens_main.htm

All charms fly

All charms fly
Originally uploaded by pragyakothari

just love this

roomba gets stuck in living room

yes, embarrassing- we got one. the white floors are gracefully attracting the outdoors in... as the house was intended- it does bring the outdoors inside, grass, mud prints from little feet etc.  So our new  clean bot started out doing well, but when I checked on it 1 hour later, it had traveled into kitchen area from living room (after leaving half of living room in disarray), and then promptly gave up on kitchen( who wouldn't?) and went straight back to cleaning the very same area of LR that it had already done. Bot had a  brawl with my laptop cord and it finally won, yanking it under the sofa. I finally picked the thing up and smacked it down in the place where I WANTED it to clean. it still made a mad dash for the area it had previously cleaned twice. I think it has a bad case of OCD and I will not be able to  rely on a  compulsive Robot to clean my  disordered floors in a  frenzy when I am expecting company within 2 hours- its still all me baby. ( I will torture it with the dustbunnies under the beds on a  regular basis) this is where the Bot shines! it does need some  sort of  happy face decal  on it soon.

kitchen in need of party seating and side table

http://www.nooddesign.com/p-664-costa-del-sol.aspx

http://www.nooddesign.com/p-849-xl-platter-with-legs.aspx

finally! the DWR wallpaper link...

I fell in love with the pages, then couldn't find the source- now I have it, gotta get me some...

http://www.cole-and-son.com/collection_detail.asp?CollectionID=13

http://www.cole-and-son.com/collection_detail.asp?CollectionID=13

http://www.cole-and-son.com/collection_detail.asp?CollectionID=13


http://www.cole-and-son.com/collection_detail.asp?CollectionID=13

http://www.cole-and-son.com/collection_detail.asp?CollectionID=13

http://www.cole-and-son.com/collection_detail.asp?CollectionID=113

atrium has cactii and rocks

oh finally some river rock and cactus, Iris for temporary experimental fun ( how much su n do they need??)  and some curly Q grass that gets curlier as it grows and it loves clay heavy poorly draining soil- now what plants can you say that you have heard can handle that!

 oh... and there IS a COPPER water pipe just 2 inches buried (original  c@ 1959 copper water lead for  spicket/ faucet in atrium) in E-11 its just below corner last 2 mistlite panels near atrium bedroom/office corner along long atrium planter run below mistlites. easy to hit with shovel, digger beware!!!

nice plants for patio

http://www.houzz.com/photos/38566/Avila-Valley-Estate-mediterranean-landscape-other-metros