Apocalyptic Sky

This was the sky last weekend. One of the more amazing sunsets in recent memory.

Straw Bale Troika

I find it odd that I can walk to two other straw bale houses:
and drive to 2 more within 10 minutes. Not to mention the proliferation of straw bale wineries.

• Dubost Winery
• Claiborne Churchill

Since straw bale is not the most obvious choice for building it is kinda cool.

Landsnaking...

The majority of the landscaping is complete. The design is fairly close to what was designed.

Here is the almost finished product:
for the visually astute, there is a visitor from a previous blog posting in the picture above...

in the lower left corner in the picture above, is the snake from my April 19th, 2009 post.

Here is a closer look:
and here:
This snake is not camera shy...