can you paint bamboo & make a fence?

Bamboo is plentiful in Birmingham, Alabama. Can you believe that?! I lived in a house that was near unclaimed woods with all kinds of trees…and grass, like Bamboo. My children & i would wrestle dead bamboo out of the ground & drag it home (not drag, carry without effort, as it weighed nothing). I wanted…

Wavy windows

Downtown Birmingham, Alabama…it is a pretty good looking mix of old & new architecture…and what-were-they-thinking buildings. My favorite is the old stuff, that seems to be where the love is. God is in the details. I think, with architecture, love is in the details. Older buildings, was a time when the craftsmen showed people what…

2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 110,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that…