About Me
Ever since I can remember, I have loved building structures, messing around in the garden growing fruits and vegetables and creating inviting outdoor spaces for the co-mergence of humans, plants, birds and anything else that crawls, walks or flies around my backyard.
When I lived in my first Seattle apartment back in 1986, I took the drawers from an old dresser, filled them with soil and put them on the asphalt driveway behind my place. There I had a view outside my kitchen window of bright smiling pansies and daffodils in the spring followed by tomato plants and some variety of greens. Since that time, I have nurtured a much larger plot of land around my home and gained a lot of experience and knowledge about plant habits, interesting combinations and what makes a garden unique and inviting as well as developing carpentry skills to build structures that define vertical and horizontal space and support plant material.
Combining my career as a professional musician with a passion for gardening and hard work, I have a penchant for seeking out beauty in many forms and disciplines. I have developed a reverence for how nature and humans can thrive when there is environmental harmony in the outer landscape in terms of balance, symmetry, quietude, appreciation for the smallest winged insect to noticing the change of light as well as the change of seasons. This supports the nurturing of one’s soul and inner landscape while maintaining a sense of humility and awe for what is truly most important as we live and share this land with our neighbors on our one earth.
