Pario-from the field...

Here is a photograph of a span-of-control illustration, from an impromptu discussion about organizational change in real estate development…...

About half painted here. In addition to this painting which is a name for a family home , there is a pen and ink drawing that is scanned to ...

I transfered the original drawing to another canvas in order to further play with the layout and a potential design for the name.  There...

The Local Government Commission , along with the City of Encinitas, conducted a workshop to educate citizens, municipalities, and private se...

Overnight, a foot of blufftop land can collapse onto the beach, and be quickly eroded by a high tide.

This plaza, essentially a bulb-out, was carved from parts of Fir and India Streets in 2004. Fir Street became one way and parking parallel ...

Here is an initial lay-in sketch for a painting intended to be a name for a home.  It is a sea horse but I intend to make it an identity for...

Here is a neighborhood shrine in early stages of painting. You can see the outside two doors, which open to expose a tryptic (more detail wi...

Today a visitor to San Diego was killed when Torrey Pines bluffs collapsed on him .  Warning signs are prominent , and lifeguards regularly ...

Patagonia in Cardiff was removing their window display theme 'activism takes many forms.' I walked by when ism remained.

Though the California State Parks have wanted to replace rip rap that protects the San Elijo Campgrounds and bluffs, there has been no permi...

Non native plants are becoming the focus of new policy in Encinitas.  In a North County Times article , San Elijo Conservancy Executive Dire...

Are these acupuncture needles or voodoo pins?

At Swami's beach park the City of Encinitas has intalled a solar trash compactor that is supposed to "save time, fuel and trucking ...

...There was another street and one more block of land in town plots west of 5th Street in Encinitas, according to W.H. Berger in his book W...

Quality foreground buildings of this character are rarely proposed these days, and it seems like people often find reason to object to them ...

In his book Walk Along the Ocean , W.H. Berger says that cliffs erode about a foot per one hundred years on average, but they can often go m...

Last night's high tide assaulted the bluffs on the south side of San Elijo State Beach in Cardiff. In January the State applied for per...

Joseph Chilton Pearce says that if we raise children in a nourishing, loving, and skill building manner, most of society's problems can ...

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