Categories for the Whispering Crane Institute Blog:
- animals (4)
- Ascension (5) The large stone sculptural element I built for the city of Columbia, SC.
- Associations (19)
- axonometric (1)
- China (3) new information from China, and/or post about my trip to China in 2004.
- color rendering (42)
- conceptual drawing (33)
- Construction in-progress (12)
Design Principles has a high number because their are so many variables involved when trying to decide how to tag a post. Sometimes a post on waterfeatures will also be tagged design principles because of a particular point I make in the post about putting the project together-using some sort of (dp) to make it work.
- design principles (75)
- drawings (13)
- Einstein (3) Quotes by the great one.
- equipment (2)
- hardscape design (23)
- hardscapes (23)
- hot tub (2)
- nature (32)
- pergola (10)
- plan-vew drawing (16)
- plant material (19)
- presentation drawing (3)
- quotes (10) Sometimes the post is about landscaping, but other times nature, the World, or funny, or just something that strikes me as worthy of passing on.
- renderings (12)
- sectional drawings (3)
- sketchbook (12) These are post on renderings, doodles, drawings, straight out of one of my sketchbooks, journals, field books that I have kept since 1987.
- South Carolina (6) Post mostly on projects that I have installed in South Carolina, with an occasional tid-bit on travel, or some such.
- steps (1)
- stone (45)
- streams (2)
- stuff (97)
- terrace (4)
- Uncategorized (5) Who knows . . .
- waterfalls (1)
- waterfeatures (21)
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Great website, thanks
Rick,
I’ve spent quite a bit of time this afternoon looking over your blog. Thanks so much for all of the helpful information! I am trained in interior design but am coming into a family which owns a nursery, so it looks like I will be switching over to EXTERIOR design. I am trying to teach myself everything I can about landscape design. Starting in Feb. I will start our university’s Landscape Design Program. It is a non-credit program, but many designers around here have the certificate and are doing well with it. So far my favorite thing about landscape as opposed to interior design is the fact that you have so much more freedom and most times if you are “off” a few inches it isn’t as earth shattering.
Anyway, I just wanted to take the time to drop you a line. Thank you so much for all the helpful information. I will be coming back often.
Missy