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Designing Your Dream Garden: Creating an Outdoor Paradise

english wildflower garden photo by gail worley
Wildflower Garden Attracts Pollinators (All Photos By Gail)

A well-designed garden is a sanctuary where you can escape the hustle and bustle of daily life, connect with nature, and enjoy the beauty of the outdoors. Whether you have a spacious backyard or a compact urban space, creating your dream garden is an achievable and rewarding endeavor.
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How to Design and Create a Modern Garden

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Are you looking to create a space where you can spend time during warm summer evenings? A modern garden might be an ideal addition to your backyard, since it adds form, function, comfort, and beauty to your property.

Whether you want to infuse a modern look and feel or give your existing garden the much-needed TLC, you are in the right place. There are plenty of ways you can create your garden or bring it up-to-date by incorporating the latest trends in the world of gardening, landscaping, and home design.
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4 Tips For Having Fun at Home

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Whether you’re trying to scale back your expenses, simplify your lifestyle, or make the most of your property, it’s likely that you’re spending a lot of your time at home. This shouldn’t feel like a compromise. Instead, it should feel like a fabulous opportunity to try new experiences, have fun with your loved ones, and embrace a positive mindset. If you are struggling to see the joys in spending your time at home, you’ll need to work your way through the following four tips. They will help you to get the most out of your living space and will save you from looking back in regret.
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Pink Thing Of The Day: Pink Flamingo Pool Statue

Flamingo Pool Statue
All Photos By Gail

Ah, California at Christmastime is a singular experience, filled with visions of kidney-shaped swimming pools and, of course, oversized Pink Flamingo statues.
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GoldenBoy By Jeff Bark at Hasted Kraeutler

GoldenBoy Car
Let the Homoeroticism Begin! (All Photos By Gail)

Jeff Bark’s newest body of work, an exhibition of new photographs he calls GOLDENBOY (now at Hasted Kraeutler), instantly appealed to both Geoffrey and me, but for entirely different reasons. Geoffrey was wildly smitten by the bare-chested hottie who is the subject of half of the photos in the exhibit.

I was more intrigued, however, by the moody, lost-weekend vibe of the yellow-hued still life scenes, and the recreation of what I correctly took to be a southern California backyard – mostly because it reminded me so much of the backyard of my own childhood home located in Orange County.
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