Macro vs. Micro Design: Fail at Micro & Macro is Gone

Freshman year, 1st semester, a professor continually referenced margarine.  

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Stubborn, (skipped my senior year of high school) weeks passed before asking a classmate what was going on in class.

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Professor's fast/thick accent was saying, 'Margin'.  Economics 101, truly.  This one incident taught me, 'Wake up baby girl it's sink or swim.'

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This delightful man also used, macro/micro teaching methods.  Blessedly, got that immediately!

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Micro design, below.  Susanne Hudson's new porch.

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Seemingly insignificant, every detail, above, screams, "Pay attention to me-me-me !"

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The porch, perfect too, is macro.

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How important is macro vs. micro?

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  Without macro/micro, design (art) is incomplete.

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Landscape design is all about trees, hedges, paths first.  Then flowers.

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Human DNA loves flowers.  But, of course.  It's all about pollination.  Providence is divinely serious, with an obvious sense of beauty & humor.

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Driving in the car, too much, to appointments I cannot abide talking on the phone.  Not for safety reasons, my mind is lost in music & gardens & happy.

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Last week, Bonnie Raitt has been blasting her hedges in my car!  Repeat button on Thing Called Love.

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Once the epiphany about macro/micro arrived in Garden Design it arrived in Art Understanding.

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After listening dozens of time to, Thing Called Love, I still can't decide if it's the band or voice attracting me.

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Then I realize it's a good garden, her macro & micro are out of the ballpark with both.

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(Thinking in metaphor is the norm, you too?)

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Some weeks it's Cole Porter or Sinatra or Patsy Cline or Willie or Norah Jones or Mozart or AC/DC or Foghat or Bob Seger or John Williams or Elaine Stritch or......

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They get their macro/macro.

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Garden & Be Well,    XO Tara 

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Pic taken yesterday at Susanne Hudson's.  Bonnie Raitt's pic from NPR.

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Treat yourself to Elaine if you don't know her, chose Ladies Who Lunch !  Remember, it's Broadway when it was truly Broadway.    

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Don't believe in spoon feeding anyone.  Label 3 elements of macro garden design.  Label at least 1 element of micro garden design.  Answers, above.

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