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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For a beautiful garden & home filling you with joy, become my client, local/on-line.
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Award winning speaker, hire me for your group, local/out-of-state.
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Books by Tara Dillard, Amazon
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Tara Dillard & Associates Design: farm to city pied-a-terre.
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Construction by Award Winning:
Shaefer Heard Construction, licensed home-builder, renovation - new construction. Heard's Landscaping a unit of SHC. 3 decades of service.
Bonnie's hair always kills me. It might be the prettiest head of red hair ever.
ReplyDeleteSo much wisdom so early on a foggy-head Monday morning. Woke me up a bit.
ReplyDeleteSaw a quote the other day ... never underestimate the therapeutic qualities of listening to loud music while driving. My most recent tunes are from Maroon 5 and Rathkeltair (http://www.rathkeltair.com/), sometimes Eminem and Lady Gaga added for spice.
must . meet . Susanne !
As an artist I get this. I can't tell you how often a small, little detail is what really gets someone's attention when they are looking at one of my pottery pieces. It's the part that makes them fall in love.
ReplyDeletei don't love country music but, for some reason, patsy cline is my go-to gardening music :)!
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