I’m going to do one more post from my trip to the Arboretum and then move on to something else. But don’t fear, I will circle back and there will be lots more dahlias featured. I didn’t attempt a tremendous amount of soft focus images on this trip, because they tend to be pretty time consuming and I didn’t want to bore my mom to tears while I fussed with my camera.
I actually prefer to get more abstract these days, but as I’ve mentioned (repeatedly) it’s hard to find subject matter that works and I didn’t see anything at the Arb that seemed appropriate. How do I define the truly abstract? Basically, if I can’t identify what’s in the image, then it’s abstract. These three photos clearly fail that test.
I promised to focus on the positive (for now) when it comes to our new home construction. While the stucco is way behind, they did get another round of small framing changes done while we were gone. They also boarded up the opening for the front door and installed doors with locks between the garages and the main house, so we can start securing the interior. All good things.
But the biggest win by far was finding out that we no longer have to install an underground catchment system to manage the storm water on our property. The new engineering firm we hired came up with a plan that not only gives us a big flat area of artificial grass, it also replaces the huge pipes with two large fields of rock for filtration. One is under the “grass” and the other is under our gravel overflow parking area. This change will save a significant amount of money and eliminate annual maintenance. The plans were just submitted to the watershed district, but they are pretty confident we will get an approval. I can’t even begin to express how happy that makes me.