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Dunkin Donuts

National Doughnut Day

June 7, 2013by Rick Anderson Leave a comment

Girls, Donuts and a Scion tooling around on National Donut Day. June 7th, 2013

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landscape design
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Warren Buffet, on your Chosen Profession

January 4, 2012by Rick Anderson Leave a comment

This quote from Warren Buffet seems to make a lot of great sense to me, I mean how hard is it to become a expert in one field, let alone […]

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Associations, Einstein, landscape design, quotes
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2011 in review

January 2, 2012by Rick Anderson Leave a comment

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about […]

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Blogroll, Einstein, landscape design, pergola
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2012

December 30, 2011by Rick Anderson Leave a comment

Well what’s going to happen this year? The housing market seems to be recovering in a few areas but most areas the market is still depressed and most folks see […]

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gardendesign, landscape design, Uncategorized
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Industry Shortages Coming?

April 1, 2011by Rick Anderson 4 Comments

I always knew that the decline of the housing market was going to hurt/effect our industry for years. It’s a true game changer and there are going to be losers […]

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Associations, landscape design, plant material
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Inflation

February 15, 2011by Rick Anderson 4 Comments

Inflation is not only coming, it’s here. Look at these price increases over the last 6 months. Staggering Cotton = +125.7% Sugar = +82.6% Corn = +59.0% Coffee = +41.4% […]

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Einstein, equipment, landscape design

It Never Happened

January 6, 2010by Rick Anderson 2 Comments

This addition to the deck, a new railing and walk, new set of steps, a pond and totally new landscape plantings was an eye-opener. The Inside For the homeowners it […]

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color rendering, conceptual drawing, drawings, landscape design, renderings

Bohemiam Rhapsody, the Muppets

November 30, 2009by Rick Anderson 3 Comments

It doesn’t get any more awesome than this . . . .  

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landscape design

Russel Davis

August 19, 2009by Rick Anderson 1 Comment

Russ you are now gone . . . a place to remember . . . but you will not be forgotten. Your entire family are in our prayers and thoughts for […]

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landscape design

Pearl Fryar update, plus some Odds-n-Ends

May 18, 2009by Rick Anderson 2 Comments

Pearl Fryar After all the commotion Pearl received on the documentary shown on HGTV and the traffic this blog received when I promoted the documentary, some more news and a […]

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landscape design, stuff

Planters, pots, doors, and more

April 24, 2009by Rick Anderson 4 Comments

Very interesting set of images in a Picasa Web Album, super stuff Picasa Web Albums – Gardensia – GardensiaProducts Powered by ScribeFire.

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landscape design
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From the Sketchbook(12)

April 21, 2009by Rick Anderson 1 Comment

It’s a Oldie! About the second after I finished this page of sketches I received a phone call telling me the project went kaput. So that was that. I think […]

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conceptual drawing, drawings, landscape design, renderings, sketchbook, waterfalls

Design Principles(09)

April 7, 2009by Rick Anderson Leave a comment

In DP(08) I thought I was finished talking about color, or I thought I was finished sending you to sites that discuss all the great things concerning color. Well; as […]

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color rendering, gardendesign, landscape design
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Design Principles (08)

March 26, 2009by Rick Anderson 6 Comments

In several previous post I went through the very elemental beginnings of my take on Landscape Design Principles. The last was how I looked at design when considering motion, and […]

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color rendering, gardendesign, landscape design

Dumbarton Oaks Symposium in May

March 19, 2009by Rick Anderson Leave a comment

May 8th and 9th Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC is hosting their Spring symposium entitled: The Interlacing of Words and Things in Gardens and Landscapes: Beyond Nature and Culture There […]

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“The Knowledge is Given to the Crane from Above”

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. . . My hope is to use this site to spread some info about the art and practice of Landscape Design. It is a very misunderstood profession. I do not cut grass like the next door neighbor's cousin who carries 3 mowers and a blower in the back of his truck. I will also pass along comments on industry happenings, events, etc., and maybe a few other thoughts, musings, ramblings and adventures going on in my world. After all this is "my" blog. Thanks for stopping by and taking a look. Questions? Drop me an e-mail. wcicrane (at) gmail (dot) com

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