Stylish Solutions
Every year it's the same thing. The suburban holiday season starts in Lamorinda grocery stores with the first corn stalk display out front, and lasts over four months through the New Year's Day football party at your home.
 By Ann McDonald
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Pooling Water
Jeff and Kathleen Johnson seem to like holes in the ground filled with water. When they bought their house 15 years ago, the backyard featured a 30,000-gallon swimming pool, which served their family of four well for a number of years. Jeff Johnson said both ...By Cathy Dausman
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Digging Deep - Gardening with Cynthia Brian
Everyone seems to love the birds. After reading my previous month's column, "For the Birds," many people contacted me with stories of the birds in their gardens including hardwood floor installer and refinisher, Tom Gieryng. He sent me photos and asked me to come see ...By Cynthia Brian
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Feng Shui
The Self Knowledge, Self-Cultivation and Wisdom area of a home or office is often overlooked but connected to our success in all aspects of our busy lives. The beginning of the school year is a great time to make adjustments in this area of your home, especially in ...By Michele Duffy
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On the Offense for Defensible Space
Four years into the latest California drought, wildland fires present a nearly year-round threat. The same vegetation that allows Lamorinda to call itself "semi-rural" is now bone dry.
By Cathy Dausman
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Cynthia Brian's Gardening Guide for September
"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy" - Henry Ward Beecher
We have definitely experienced ample sunshine this season and as summer simmers ...By Cynthia Brian
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Drought Fells Orinda Cottonwood
The California drought has claimed yet another victim - this one a decades-old 65-foot-tall cottonwood tree in a south Orinda yard. Richard Osborne and Leeann Brady were preparing to remove the tree, realizing that it had rotted from the inside out, when it suddenly ...
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Stylish Solutions
Most of us would love lives that are picture perfect - happy families with kids nicely dressed enjoying family activities with mom and dad; good meaningful conversations happening in a beautiful room - but life is not a magazine shoot, even if we can orchestrate the ...By Ann McDonald
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Growing Vines, and More, In Time of Drought
For Sal Captain, minimizing water usage is a culturally ingrained characteristic. "In the house in England where I was raised, you had to put in shillings to get hot water," he remembered fondly. Captain trained his kids to save water; if the kids showered too long, ...By Sophie Braccini
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Digging Deep - Gardening with Cynthia Brian
"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs." - Joseph Addison, essayist and poet (1672-1719)
Are you ...
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Kitchen Feng Shui
Good kitchen feng shui is especially important to fuel all of our passionate adventures of exploring in life. Good feng shui for the kitchen begins with clean and tidy counters, floors, the refrigerator and especially the stove to prepare your foodie masterpieces. ...By Michele Duffy
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Giving Away the Store - Without the Store
Just when you find you have too many salt shakers, the disposable ones left over from the camping trip that you added to the ones you recently unpacked from mama's nice antique things to the ordinary ones you had already, you find, well, you have too many salt shakers. ...By Chris Lavin
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Cynthia Brian's Gardening Guide For August
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
August is nearly upon us, the most traveled month of the ...By Cynthia Brian
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Lamorinda Landscapers Earn Beautification Awards
Twelve local landscapers were recently honored with beautification awards "for excellence in landscape installation and maintenance," said the East Bay chapter of the California Landscape Contractors Association. A total of 25 awards were presented in 15 categories ...By Cathy Dausman
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Stylish Solutions
It's summer and that means people all over are cleaning out, dusting off and remodeling. Even businesses take time during the slower summer months to clear out storage areas, and tidy up. How do I know? We get called for design solutions during the summer months. It ...By Ann McDonald
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Lamorinda Weekly, Moraga CA