Design Sample

I finished a CAD drawing today for a client. No more hand-drafted designs - I'm a terrible drawer. I'd like to add some color to these designs in the future.

The Darkness

Not the band, just the moniker for the Pacific Northwest for the next 5 or so months. I am working a couple days a week again at Life + Limb, and I watch Burnside Street through the big window all day. At exactly 4.30 pm, the light begins to fade and the traffic and noise begins to rise. As I ride my bike home, I realize that the rain makes the black asphalt much blacker. The wet, soggy piles of leaves on the sides of the streets? They are just covering up the treacherous potholes that might lay underneath, adding to the "darkness". My senses are left to the memory of the streets that I have ridden on so many times, and to that sixth sense that comes only with Jedi Training that goes something like, "Don't think,...feel". (My mantra when mountain biking too.)

I also feel the need to go to bed at 7.30 pm because it has been dark for 3 hours and that must mean that it is about 11pm.

In landscaping news, I am completing a design for a contemporary remodel of a front yard in Lake Oswego. The concrete was poured this week for the front walkway (did you know you can make concrete underwater?), and the new front deck is going to be built soon. The plan is to get the plants in the ground before Winter. Maybe I'll have something to show in a few weeks.