Another year and a few more changes- lots of plans and slowly they emerge. 

Instead of making pots during the summer months 2009 I worked with stone- started building a garden folly - a little gothic grotto which will have  a fountain in it.  It faes East  with one other side open to the south so sun will fill it much ot the day, even in winter.   A  serpentine staircase windis around behind it to the top of a steep slope of stones and earth which will become a rock garden.  Some of the stone looks like Manhattan Schist - it is dressed stone from cellar walls where a door goes to my new office; the other stone came from More than 200 post holes we dug for the fence- and is al roundl river stone of wonderfully diverse origins, gathered by glaciers and deposited as terminal moraine of which Long Island (including Brooklyn) is made.

David constructed the start of a terrace covering roots of a large tree in a neighbor's yard.  With that in place the shady eastern end of that side is now complete.  My construction of the folly interfered with his work to build the sitting terrace at the Western end near my kiln shd -  which will be the focus of the shade garden.  The terrace project awaits spring 2010. 

You are welcome to visit the garden at any time.  Just call when you know what times are possible so we can welcome you.