Re: Oklahoma City GWAA Meeting/ An Illustration

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Alexander" <tom@growingedge.com>
snip....
> We all know that electronic media and electronic play things like
> Play Station, Nintendo, and MySpace are taking away eyeballs from
> both television and print media. It is just the way things are
> evolving. And since we of the "elder" age were brought up on both
> television and print media, it is hard for us to accept this change.
> But that is the way things are going, like it or not. ..snip...
    Believe I have a good illustration of approaches used by different 
generations.
    We are designing and having installed two rain gardens. I got out my 
graph paper, pencils and pens and made some concept sketches and final 
drawings for discussion. Found an landscape architect by chance at a 
symposium where he was speaking. He came out to our home, walked and talked 
with us, looked at my drawings, took some digital photos, a few measurements 
and went home.
    In my email a week later I received his concept of one of the rain 
gardens. We received a 25 second movie as opposed to the drawings I was 
expecting. It began as a satellite photo our 5 acres, rotated and zoomed in 
on the structure where the rain garden was to originate. Then moved in 
closer so one could see the details of the building, the new path with a 
"person" on it for scale, front of the building and downspout, his drawing 
overlaying the scene and 3-D labels for the structure of the new garden and 
plants.
    We were so wowed by the tech it took us another day to go back and 
actually see the reason we had hired the man.
    Yep, times are a changin'.... but, then, they always have.
Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
www.munchkinnursery.com
genebush@munchkinnursery.com
Zone 6/5  Southern Indiana 


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