Landscaping Gone Bad

I often ride my bike past this building in Montlcair.  I wonder what the story is?

At first glance, I thought it was a sculpture.  It would be great cast in bronze and attached to a modernist  tower in midtown.

Merry Christmas

This little tabletop trough came about when I was casting a few large troughs earlier this fall.  As often happens, I had a bit of the mix left over when I'd finished the larger ones.  Sometimes I'll cast small pots, just to use up the mixture, but this time I cast a tiny trough over a piece of scrap foam.

The ornaments are thrift store finds from years ago. 

Winter Heatwave

Monday.

Sunday.

What the hell?

Tableau

Before the storm, a tapestry.

Hypertufa Bench

Crosshatching of winter shadows across the hypertufa bench.

Accidental Still Life

One of my hypertufa planters on the deck has become a landing spot for items collected by the kids on their adventures.

They have good taste.

Late November Color

Kind of a memento mori for the miscanthus...staring at the compost heap, knowing it will join it in the spring?

 This combo of calamagrostis brachytricha and cotoneaster franchetii keeps on giving.

Oak leaf hydrangeas carry on with business despite being planted under a huge maple with greedy roots.

More of that cotoneaster, mmmm....

Angelina sedum

Lonicera foliage and one of the last blooms

The hellebore nursery under a hydrangea contains seedlings from my favorite purple hellebore.  They need 2-3 more years to bloom.

Arum italicum 

 The last rose?

I have troughs in the basement, sealed in plastic, fully cured and ready to come outside, but I couldn't bring myself to put them out tonight for the predicted 17 degrees.  They can wait.  After all, it's winter.  I need to learn to wait again.