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Brookville, Ohio USA Brookville, Ohio, Clay Township, City of Brookville, Abe Lincoln, truth about enzyte Abraham Lincoln, oldmanlincoln, popslinc, President Lincoln's Cousin, Writes for Greenville Advocate, Arcanum Times, Brookville Star, Dayton Daily News, Over the Back Fence magazine, Bears Mill, cool illustrations, photography, blog writing, wildlife, photography, journalism, writing you're here > http://brookvilledailyphoto.blogspot.com/ Honeysuckle hug I thought this was a touching moment for the yew and for the honeysuckle. I know it was for me. The vine needed support so it could grow, bloom and feed hummingbirds. The tree gave that and more. The vine responded and fed a lot of hummingbirds over the summer. Posted by Abraham Lincoln at 12:01 AM 6 comments Some more recent books that I wrote About my books Books. The new theme is about books. And guess who forgot to sign up? Me. What a time to forget something. Oh well, I have written a lot of books. I have more copyrights on books than anything else. Some are more interesting than others while others are not interesting at all. Here is a collection that I could find in a hurry. Only two of these are still available. The rest are out of print. If you are interested > Click here. Posted by Abraham Lincoln at 12:01 AM 53 comments Court House in Greenville, Ohio HORRIBLE DISCOVERY Posted by Abraham Lincoln at 12:01 AM 43 comments
When I came back to the United States from Japan in 1956 I began to think about the things I saw there that made an impression on me. At many temples in Japan, there is a kind of virtual lake made out of raked gravel with stones to simulate islands and dwarf trees. Sometimes there were things that I didn't understand, but I knew that I liked what I saw in Matsushima and in Tokyo and almost everywhere I went. So, one of the first patios I built was this one with the slats on top instead of a roof. It was a nightmare to paint bright red but I did it.The cast shadows were just like that raked gravel in Japan at the temples. I really liked the idea of a plain and simple pond of real water and I created that at the end of this patio. It can be seen but is very small in this small photo. That red wooden fence eventually went half way along the backyard before stopping under a willow tree.
This is a radical departure from the scene above. A moss green colored patio that no longer cast shadows like raked gravel. It was a giant pocket for snow to gather in the winter. It was a beautiful place to spend time in the summer but it got very hot and the heat just couldn't escape. In the end, I took this patio cover down and gave up on the idea of a covered patio. I also had many Japanese inspired ponds. Some with islands and small pine trees. Some had red, arched, bridges. All had running water from one end, under the bridge into the larger pond. In those days there were no molded ponds, and no pond liners, and no Little Giant pumps. To pump water I used washing machine pumps; and they did suck some pretty gold fish through leaving my pond covered with fish scales.
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