Discover landscape architecture while studying sculpture and music at the University of Illinois in 1980.

Choose Saihoji, the Moss Temple Garden in Kyoto, as the subject of art history paper.

Awestruck at walls of books on landscape on first visit to L.A. library: tiny gardens to planned cities.

Decide to study landscape architecture in next lifetime.

Next lifetime arrives in 1988, working in Boulder on ideas for art in public places.

Begin graduate study at CU Denver, to better understand sculpture’s context:

natural and built environment; space itself and how people move through it.

Discipline takes root.

Open landscape design/build practice in 1991.

    I am a bliss-follower

     A fortunate individual

     making straybeat acoustic songwriter-sounds

     that thread through my other pursuits of sculpture and landscape design

     Aiming to help build the beautiful new world

     with various accomplices

     that have included a number of Colorado's passionate musical geniuses

     from diverse genres: jazz, prog rock, world beat &

     unaffiliated

     Who have heard in this music the big gesture of what I am trying to do

     and lent it the grace of their incredible aural 'view'

     spreading out from deep roots in the present moment.