trees Archives | Ouno Design https://ounodesign.com/tag/trees/ Tue, 29 Dec 2015 23:58:37 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 The rainforest, long may it last https://ounodesign.com/2015/12/29/temperate-rainforest-british-columbia/ https://ounodesign.com/2015/12/29/temperate-rainforest-british-columbia/#respond Tue, 29 Dec 2015 23:58:37 +0000 https://ounodesign.com/?p=18900

Trees on Boxing Day 2015, Vancouver Island. Our new summer droughts haven’t killed the rainforest yet! Happy New Year, everyone.

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The two cones at left are young and old cones from the same pine tree (I forget the variety); same with the ones on the right, but from a blue atlas cedar.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2015/08/30/weather/feed/ 0 Concrete planters. What happened? Whither minimalism? Whither design? https://ounodesign.com/2011/04/01/concrete-planters/ https://ounodesign.com/2011/04/01/concrete-planters/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:23:50 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=11619

Whatever happened to planters like these two? They may still be in production, but wherever they are still available, and that’s nearly nowhere, they’re civic-sized, weigh 500-1000 pounds, and are out of scale for people’s home gardens.

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I hope that whichever winter festival you celebrate, it is happy. Here in Vancouver we will remain buried under three unheard-of feet of snow, waiting helplessly for the thaw and staying clear of the roads, since Vancouverites don’t know how to drive in it.

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