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The Halls Hill Labyrinth The Fourth Circuit, Mars
Mars, the Red Planet is the 4th furthest from the sun. Â It looks red, even to the naked eye in the night sky. Â In 2014 it was closest to the Earth and at its brightest on April 14, as I was writing...
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The Halls Hill Labyrinth, The 3rd Circuit, Earth, the Community Circuit
Earth is the 3rd closest planet to the sun after Mercury and Venus. Â It is the only planet not named after a Roman or Greek God. Â The name Earth is derived for an Anglo Saxon word Erde which has...
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The Halls Hill Labyrinth, The 2nd Circuit, Venus, Love
VenusThe Second circuit in the Labyrinth is dedicated to the Planet Venus, and the Goddess of Love, beauty, Â pleasure, and procreation. Â This is the second shortest circuit in the Labyrinth. Â Venus is...
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The First Circuit, Mercury
Mercury has a surface similar to our moonParian Marble statue of Hermes, 1st Century BC, found in the Antikithira Shipwreck excavation, National Museum of  Archaeology, Athens.  Only the part of the...
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The Halls Hill Labyrinth, The Sun
An incredible solar flare arcs far from the surface of the SunThe Sun is the star around which the planets in our solar system orbit. Â It's made of "hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields" that...
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Bainbridge Community Broadcast Podcast Interview about the Labyrinth
This is a podcast radio interview I did with Bainbridge Island resident Kayla Black about the Labyrinth I built there. Â Its a good one if I say so myself, surprising me as I usually don't like hearing...
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101 Photos from Burning Man 2014, Caravansary
The view from inside the Lost Nomad's of VulcaniaI wasn't going to go this year…really.  But then at the last minute somebody I had never met generously gifted me a ticket and vehicle pass.  Apparently...
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Two Drought and Heat Tolerant Gardens
A blend of drought tolerant plants in the Coray GardenEven though I am best known for my stone mosaic work, my first love in gardening is working with plants. Â I aced my tests in Plant Materials in the...
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Angels with dirty faces; Cimitero monumentale di Staglieno.
Add captionAngel with a malletThe Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno in Genoa, Italy is the largest repository of Italian funereal art in the country and one of the largest in Europe. Â When I visited...
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Pebble mosaics of the Palazzo Reale, Genoa, Italy
A fountain of a mermaid holding an urn graces the terrace above the Court of Honor at the Palazzo RealeI spent the winter in Italy this year, mostly in the north of the country. Â One of my favorite...
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Portraits of Fishing Nets
A creature emerges from the patterns formed by a pile of colored fishing nets in Naoussa on the Island of Paros in GreeceFloats keep the nets aloft in the waterA cascade of gold filigree in Naoussa, on...
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The Halls Hill Labyrinth, Jupiter
A beautifully enhanced image of the planet Jupiter showing a swirling cloud layer of ammonia crystalsIt is Spring and I am back on Bainbridge Island to resume work on the Halls Hill Labyrinth. Â Last...
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Camas
Camassia quamash, CamusSpringtime in the Willamette Valley of Oregon is a lush, glorious floral extravaganza. Â At the southern end of the valley around my childhood home of Eugene are green pastures...
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That which inspires me: Nature
These are some of the places that have inspired me to do what I do when I build gardens. Â Nature is foremost for me always but sometimes humans do a pretty knockout job too. Â Here I will show some of...
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That which inspires me; The World of Man
Temple 1, Tikal, GuatemalaI recently posted a series of photos highlighting places from the Natural World I've encountered in my travels that have inspired me in my life and work. Â Nature for me is the...
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The Labyrinth Project, the beginning
Setting stone in the outer ring of the LabyrinthThe Labyrinth Project is an installation I am building in Hall's Hill Lookout Park, a beautiful site on Bainbridge Island in Washington State, due west...
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The Hall's Hill Labyrinth Project: The Mala Circuit
This is the second essay about the Halls Hill Labyrinth Project. Â If you haven't read the first, scroll down past this one and you will find the first one. Â Thanks, Jeffrey"If we really wished, if we...
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The Halls Hill Labyrinth: Pluto and the Four Elements
October 17: Â This is the third installment in a series on the making of the Halls Hill Labyrinth. Â If you haven't read the first two I recommend scrolling down past this one to see those.I'm getting...
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Halls Hill Labyrinth, The Neptune Circuit
The Labyrinth at Lands End, San FranciscoI had decided to dedicate the inner 9 circuits in the Labyrinth to the planets in our solar system when I was finishing the 10th circuit. Â Pluto, the ninth...
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The Halls Hill Labyrinth, The 7th Circuit, Uranus, God of the Sky
"Show not what has been done, but what can be. Â How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths."Â Umberto Eco, The Name of the RoseSaint Colomba's Bay, Iona,...
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