Spring in Brussels!

How Amazing...a vast carpet made of flowers! It really is breathtaking. Spring is about renewal - it's nature's celebration after the darkness of winter, where it bursts into flower and birds into song. With all the earth changes, the tragic natural disasters that have recently devastated Japan, Haiti, New Orleans and Chile (they recently had an earthquake) we can count on the Spring and know that all is well and where the cold and snow stripped the flowers and the leaves and made things seemingly dead, they were only sleeping and now they are awakening again for a new start.

LEED Platinum

The Design-Build team (of which I am a part) at Habitat For Humanity are very proud and honored by this certificate. We have created beautiful, energy efficient homes for hard-working, low income people. This house that was awarded Platinum in the LEED Certification still has a credit on their energy bill of $50.00 after nine months of living in the house - and full use of the heat and air during the summer and winter months!

Hey Look! Sunset just came out with a new soft cover book. It's in grocery stores and on the newsstands until May. It recaps a lot of great ideas from the last few years - from vertical gardens, creating herb beds and before and afters...and they included both of my previous articles. One is of my house and getting rid of the lawn and the other is about a side yard renovation. It's $10.00. Check it out!