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gardens of revelation, part 1b

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This is the second post on Howard Finster’s amazing Paradise Garden.  Inspired to start building in the 1960’s, Howard explained his motivation this way: “…it just come to me that the world started with a beautiful garden, so why not let it end with a beautiful garden?” Please see the […]

gardens of revelation, part 1 4

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At the end of last year, my brothers were thinking of prematurely selling Mom’s home of three decades in Santa Fe.  What could I do?  I decided to drive out to see her colonial home, perhaps for the last time, and take an inventory of her many paintings.  But what […]