The eco-complex concept is so unique, we don't know if it exists anywhere else. All of these pieces haven't been brought together in any one location that we know of.

I like to break down vistas and allow them to be stitched back together in the mind's eye. The pond was the diva and had to remain, but the paths allow us to look at it from different angles now. I always try to edit the view in this way. A fence, a hedge or a low wall can make you feel that you are secure in a garden and these trees serve the same purpose.

Before I did that, there was no way to contain your vision. That's why I created a pond 'room' in which the imagination could dwell.

He said that was the prettiest sight he'd seen in his life. So they decided to stay in Baker Valley.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

Me and my dad talked and he wanted me to go out for a sport. I was too short (5-foot-6) for basketball and too small for football. Wrestling just seemed like the right one to try.