Cynthia Brian's Gardening Guide for March
"Truth is rarely written in ink. It lives in nature." - Martin H. Fischer
It all started with a box of toothpicks.
By Cynthia Brian
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Savvy looks increase bookshelf interest
One of the questions I often get asked is how to style bookshelves without making them look cluttered. For the most part bookshelves are meant for books, right? But lately we are seeing a trend of having shelves look a little more stylish and less like a library. ...By Amanda Eck
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Growing their backyard garden
Sharon Metcalf's "little babies" are consigned to her backyard, and although recent nights have been frosty, her "babies" are staying nice and warm. Their nursery is a greenhouse shed on a raised platform on a Moraga hillside.
By Cathy Dausman
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Digging Deep with Cynthia Brian
In the first three months of the year, we get to be bystanders at numerous red carpet events. Hello awards season! The Golden Globes, People’s Choice, Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Grammy’s, and the Oscars are all highlights. Add the Olympics to this year’s lineup ...By Cynthia Brian
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Springtime is swarm season for honeybees
Swarming is when thousands of honeybees fly together in search of a new home. Swarming is a natural part of the honeybee lifecycle in spring and summer. Swarms fill the sky with a buzzing, swirling cloud of honeybees. Look up! A swarm is an amazing sight.
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Feng Shui
While love should fill every day and every moment of our lives - not just on the annual special occasions - these times can pointedly serve as a useful reminder to refresh and recharge certain areas of our lives and homes for the better. The feng shui of the master ...By Michele Duffy
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Piping problems
Plumbing runs largely unseen through our homes, serving to bring us comfort and cleanliness. "Plumb' is from the Latin "plumbum" for lead, because in the early days of plumbing that's the material that was used for piping. Lead was cheap, easy to form, easy to solder, ...By B. B. Kaye
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Digging Deep with Cynthia Brian
"The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man." ~Source Unknown
Completely covered by tangles of roots and vines, it is only in recent years that ...By Cynthia Brian
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At home with Amanda
February is always an odd month for me; I am still savoring the cold quiet dark evenings of winter, yet longing for the warm days of spring. So since we are still in the throes of dark chilly nights, I thought I would share my top five tips for creating a cozy and ...By Amanda Eck
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Repeat remodelers love life on the trail
When it comes to home remodeling, Courtney and Steve Love have amassed a lifetime of experience in a mere 15 years.
The Loves' serial remodeling story began in Burlingame, while living ...By Cathy Dausman
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Cynthia Brian's Gardening Guide for February
"That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet." - William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet"
Roses are red and pink, salmon, yellow, orange, purple, white, mauve, and are ...By Cynthia Brian
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The Real Estate Year in Review
It was another extremely strong year for sellers of residential real estate in Lamorinda; sales volume in 2017 rebounded as supply increased but that was matched by continued strong demand and average prices went up in Lafayette, Moraga and Orinda.
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Feng Shui
Gung Hay Fat Choy! Happy New Year!
The Chinese have a solar and lunar calendar (Lunarsolare) and as you may have realized and noted over the years, the New Year's celebrations of the ...By Michele Duffy
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Digging Deep with Cynthia Brian
"Hope and faith flower from the cheerful seeds of the old year to the sprouting garden of the New Year's dawn." ~Terri Guillemets
For the past few weeks it seems that everyone I encounter ...By Cynthia Brian
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Snap, crackle, pop: a fireside story
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius once said "a blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it." More than 1,800 years later we're still burning wood. We may be more fire conscious and slightly more environmentally friendly than decades ...By Cathy Dausman
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Lamorinda Weekly, Moraga CA