1900 Farmhouse

For about a week, Portland got it's share of the winter blast that the rest of the country went through. Though it's a bit of a pain...

A couple of years ago, I had the guts to hang icicle lights from my gables, 20'+ from the ground. It looked so cool and I really wanted ...

My original piece from Chris Dahlquist back from Labor Day 2007 finally got some friends. And just in the nick of time. These are created ...

This picture was done by a friend of mine, a fellow fiddle player, upon her trip to Scotland. She was in a pub in Skye on a pretty dark dism...

The long awaited chore of painting the picket fence has finally happened. It's only been about 10 years since it's needed a painting...

The last and easiest part of the rock wall project. Planting. I went to Portland Nursery which I knew was fairly spendy but figured it'd...

A friend on mine has a raspberry bush that's growing pretty frantically and offered some cuttings of it to me. Since I'm a huge fan ...

After getting the rock wall established, the next step is to create a foreground which is mostly as a mowing separation from the grass to th...

There's a house up on the east slope of Mt Tabor (a few blocks from me) that inspired me to take on this summer project of recreating th...

Having a somewhat decent garden in front, with a crazy chocolate labrador retriever that likes to tear it up from time to time with Sophie f...

So now that I have the Rhodie out of the way, it was time to take on the towering butterfly bush. I forgot to take pictures before the move ...

In the first week of June, I decided it was time to get back to work on the house. The first project to take on was making the landscape in ...

As I mentioned before in an earlier post, I travelled to St. Louis where my family is based. My mom had gotten this clock when I was just a...

This rainy and cold afternoon in Portland was spent outside chopping wood to smaller more usable firewood for the woodstove . After being on...

On Saturday morning I woke to a fairly large puddle in the downstairs bathroom. Such a drag. Fortunately, I didn't have any solid plans ...