The Future Is Wide Open

Great New Office

Greetings from southwest Florida, my new home.  It has been a long while since I have posted on this blog, during that time I have not been landscaping but have been working on my homes getting two ready for sale and getting one ready to move into.  Might not sound like work but it has been lots of cleaning and painting, packing, selling and loads of yard work, now I have been working at my new job for two weeks and still settling into home. 

Atrium In Design Office

Lately it  looked like a hoarder lived at my house but the boxes are gradually being unpacked and new locations for their contents is found. Still a lot of painting to do and shelving to build or buy but time is my friend, no worries.

This sweet painted piggy greets customers at the design center at Hazeltine Nurseries Inc., in Venice, FL, some 1200 odd miles from Indiana where I hope to find a nest of my own for the next several years. Everything about my new digs screams first class, do it right, makes me feel at home.

Going to work for someone else is not an easy proposition for me, not a contract I would enter into lightly after having spent the last 30 or so years being my own boss.  It certainly helps if your first impressions make you feel at home.

A Visual Surprise Around Every Corner

Welcome to the Full Retail Nursery

Wow what a great environment for inspiration,  a full retail nursery, tractor trailers to deliver plants, field grown specimen palms on 90 acres next adjacent to the  pristine Myakka River, super groovy.  There is a butterfly garden display, a large green house for the more tender plants, a wide selection of stylish pots and of course the plant selection, seems like I have died and gone to landscape heaven.

Display Butterfly Garden

Yep, We Got It All

Come On In See Deb, Cheryl, Laurie and Crew

Design Ideas You Can Experience

Big changes on the horizon for this girl and family, the dogs swim every day in the pool at home, don't know who likes it best but I sure dig living here so far, like vacation every day except the working part.  Of course when you feel at home, respect the principles and love your chosen field of work it surely helps the days pass.

A Peaceful Easy Feeling

Plants, Plants, Plants

The Meaning of Life

Who knows what the future holds but life's good on my ship right now.  As Tom Petty says," the future is wide open."