Julie Larah Moore posted this on her Facebook, and I wanted to share it here. It must have been very expensive, and very level.
Bedroom found on Jamie Meares’ Flickr Photostream
House near Santa Cruz, Fine Homebuilding, 1982.
Outdoor room found on flickr, sourced back to tumblr.
The Crow’s Nest at Black Bear Ranch, a commune in northern California founded in 1968 and still active today.
From House Beautiful, a tiny cottage on Long Island.
The driveway at the farmhouse that was built in 1910 by Dr. Elliot P. Joslin, pioneer in the control of diabetes.
"An 18-page letter to Dr. Joslin from John C. Olmsted, dated October 19, 1910, illustrates the considerable thought that was put into design of the entry drive and the character of the plantings around the house…
Olmsted wrote:
“Considering that it is your conception to treat the place primarily as a farm and to reduce the landscape gardening treatment that would require expense for maintenance irksome to a farmer at a minimum, it seems best that the approach drive…should be on a straight line so as to be obviously convenient and farmlike….
It will perhaps seem almost too utilitarian to have the drive without any shade trees so the hayfield would need to be sacrificed slightly in that regard.”
-Heritage Landscape Inventory, Oxford Reconnaissance Survey
I’d hardly call that a sacrifice.
I went to Troy Village Cemetery this past fall.
It might be fun for my girls to make something like this this summer! I’m always looking for good woodworking projects for the younger ones. This was found in OldNewAgain's Etsy shop.
This lamp is for sale for $70 on Etsy. It is the lamp that was on the writing desks in each bedroom of a cabin where my family goes every summer in New England.
Building with whole trees
Cretaceous crocodiliform discovered—
article in Portuguese here
A place to spend the night, in Hawaii
photo by Hiding_Underwater on Flickr