plants in the hood

today's plant has got to be the snowdrop! here's the flower: where's the snow? not here, i am happy to report! last year at this time we had over 2 feet of snow on the ground and the snowmagedon was just about to happen. this year: not so much and i am thrilled this winter has been so bearable! i don't want to curse things though because the farmer's almanac is predicting a blizzard for the last two days of this month: yikes!

making lemonade

as i walk around my neighborhood after snowmagedon 2.0 i cant help but notice the vast amounts of fallen brush and branches caused by last week's heavy snow/ice combo...

many of the piles have been tagged as "too large" by our sanitation engineers, so they are laying all over the place.

why not recycle some of it into something fantastic?

canadian design group urban tree salvage showed off some of their inspired pieces at the 2011 toronto design show last week.

they need to get some trucks down here stat!