2022-10-18 10:24
The Machine Jack Built Is In Working OrderIn 1957, Owensboro’s incredible Eastern Little League All Star Team continued its dominance in the state by winning its second consecutive sta… Read More
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Steve takes a visual and textual trip through landscape designs from a 30 year career in landscaping. He describes design and installation problems and successes throughout entire projects.
2022-10-17 08:37
As mentioned previously, Jack’s introduction to organized coaching really began at the American Legion level. Yes, he did squire the Little Leaguers to a state championship in 1952, bu… Read More
2022-10-14 10:11
Beauty on the couch:
“…Consider the interesting case in which happiness in life is predominantly sought in the enjoyment of beauty, wherever beauty presents itself to our senses… Read More
2022-10-09 05:45
Jack was absolutely devastated by his sudden rude unemployment. He faced not just the crippling vacuum of obligation into and from local influence in business, Jaycees and Sportscenter pheno… Read More
2022-10-05 14:30
The role of baseball in Owensboro at this time perfectly mirrored that of baseball throughout the United States. Adults and kids from small towns all over America tuned into The Mutual Broad… Read More
2022-10-04 11:45
A Boy’s View – 1960The muggy atmosphere was redolent with the comforting Owensboro-specific scents of of sour mash bourbon, the slight odor of Sulphur from a steel mill nearby… Read More
2022-10-04 11:27
Rainey Bethea was not an intelligent man. As Jack says, “Today, he may well not have gotten the death penalty under the modern concept of mental retardation.” What was most note… Read More
2022-10-03 19:20
The 50’s
There is a singularly very correct statement in writing about another person’s life: “Biography is also history.”A story about the real life of Jack H… Read More
2020-05-10 14:22
Feeling a bit random, my current urge is to go through some old files and reminisce a bit about discoveries made in the world of plants, flowers, design and installation. My first design ent… Read More
2019-05-21 04:51
As the systems and machinery involved in landscaping have evolved, we have become better able to do more with elements long-overlooked but readily available for use. Rocks and their large co… Read More
2019-03-27 05:00
Interestingly, this was written in 2009, revised in 2011 and left untouched. I kind of feel no need the change anything – even the cold part, lol.
I’m on a small story-telling be… Read More
2018-12-07 16:34
With this title, this could probably be one heck of a long series. Just the same, as I sit mending from my medical misadventures of recent vintage, “recollection” – history… Read More
2018-05-20 15:17
Which do I prefer? Renovating an existing place or working with new homes, set on earth and nothing else? In landscaping, it’s almost a tossup. Going in and facing this totally blank… Read More
2018-04-13 14:28
Finally, I arrive at the nuts and bolts in my semi-autobiographical rendition of a life in the landscaping business. I apologize for taking such a long break in posting, but – hey &nda&hell…Read More
2018-03-30 09:53
“Pavers”, in the sense we refer to here are compressed concrete bricks, perfectly formed to interlock initmately, forming a non-moveable structurally road strength surface. The … Read More
2018-03-02 15:42
There is something nearly Supernatural about this splendid forest, located about 25 miles outside of Louisville, Kentucky, bearing south on I-65. Bernheim Forest can give you its own set of… Read More
2018-02-28 10:31
In late May of 1966, Owensboro Senior High School hooked up with a crackerjack Shelby County team in the semifinals of the Kentucky Boys State Baseball Tournament for what would end up being… Read More
2017-11-13 23:56
What an intense and artful revelation this guy is. Azuma works in flowers and succulents and he takes flower arrangements to what I feel to be one of entirely fresh new levels of… Read More
2017-06-12 06:54
A gorgeous day made my Sunday morning sabbatical in Beckly Creek Park an absolute pleasure. The wildflowers show I missed. in earlier Spring carries some regret, but I’m somewhat on t… Read More
2017-06-04 12:49
The Parkands of Floyd’s Fork is a gorgeous conglomeration of other parks: Beckly Creek Park, at the entry on Shelbyville Road, begins a park-touring Odyssey designed for all 4 se… Read More
2017-05-09 21:21
The term “radical” stems from the original Latin radicalis – “of roots” and from Latin radix “root”. Whereas, this term ironical… Read More
2017-02-27 05:15
I began this series about my Mother with some trepidation. I was concerned about the reflected glory issue: “How utterly selfish!”, I thought. And then I found myself stricken wi… Read More
2017-01-01 13:42
A “chaw” of tobacco is the nasty lump of brown ruffage hillbillies and baseball players chuck inside their cheeks for a variety of reasons which never include addiction. The larg… Read More
2016-11-07 07:17
It is almost embarrassing to live in Louisville, Kentucky owing to the current weather trends. In mid-November we have yet to experience below freezing temperatures. The entire year has been… Read More
2016-10-16 10:19
Yes, this is another recycled post from about 3 years ago which I feel good enough to re-post with a couple of additions. Inasmuch as I am officially a “retired landscaper”, we w… Read More
2016-10-04 19:31
Strictly eye candy – hopefully enough to keep everyone entertained………
I am running extremely whimsical with this. In a way, I am just showing pictures from my Mig… Read More
2016-08-03 16:54
In August of this year, my high school graduating class reluctantly faces it’s 50th Reunion. I’ll qualify “reluctant” by saying not all are hoping it never happens. F… Read More
2016-07-26 16:07
Once again I have opened up the archival Vault of Uselessness in this blog to give another look at some of the things I like most. As is the case in any blog, the selfish interest of the aut… Read More
2016-07-09 19:57
This is an installation perspective on Portland, Oregon’s Chinese Garden which last saw the light of day 8 years ago. I’ve edited and added a few things for this iteration, but t… Read More
2016-06-05 19:18
It’s been a while – 2008 – since I began this series on Portland’s Chinese Garden. In the meantime, as is the case with any garden, much has occurred. A very few plan… Read More
2016-04-29 15:33
Make no mistake, this post – more than perhaps any I have ever posted in this blog – is strictly personal. But it is also highly celebratory – another avenue to express my… Read More
2016-04-02 02:07
This is another of those posts I went and added onto substantially, having originally produced it in 2010.
As everyone should understand by now, I am a huge fan of brick paver surfaces. I ha… Read More
2016-01-25 23:06
A recent picture-taking jag dating back to my visit to the warm climes of San Diego as it rained in tropical Monsoon-style back in Louisville – where it was also warmer, lol – le… Read More
2016-01-23 16:28
I’ve never given up this space for guests, being as selfish and eccentric as I suppose I am, although I have been asked to do so by some interesting people. Well, I’m changi… Read More
2016-01-17 03:35
Jack passed away this morning, September 29th. I’ll recirculate this for another round in case someone out there has not yet read it. I have grown so close to him.
How many of us have… Read More
2015-10-28 15:27
This is an old favorite post of mine I thought I might recirculate. The subject matter – shaping rocks – is about as old as prehistory – and we know that is some really, re… Read More
2015-10-05 18:18
As I progressed in landscaping as a career – and especially in my own projects – I came to realize how vital “finishing” can be. As the business owner who had a &ldqu&hell…Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Click all images to enlarge Pebble Pathways are a specialty. I have done just a couple in my day but I have so enjoyed looking at those done by others, I’m actually late in speaking of… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
(excerpts from my book project about Jack Hicks) The season began as usual during the Spring break in early April with games scheduled daily. Owensboro Senior High School baseball opened wit… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Patric Blanc’s exterior vertical landscape at the Caixa Forum: A more modern and late-seasonal look at Patrick Blanc’s seminal Vertical Wall at the Caixa Forum in Madrid, Spain… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I’m recirculating this post from a few years ago in order to provide some glimpses in my next post, of how things have evolved in the Vertical Wall field since. A minor industry has ta… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
As a pageant, football has few rivals. And high school football has its very own style, especially in growing small towns still large enough to have 3 other major rival high schools. Ba… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
In a way this is a story of extreme local interest to the denizens of Owensboro, Kentucky and almost no one else. My hometown, Owensboro is a sports-mad town with a legacy in the state… Read More
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