dinner is served.

you know you are old when your friends start having babies. marriage is one thing, but now kids too? okay, i realize that "old" is very relative here. i typically define myself as a college kid. now that i graduated college 3 1/2 years ago, i guess that isn't exactly accurate. so janelle, a long time friend from school, college, and now post-college, was the first of my friends to have a baby. the entire pregnancy, i thought it was a boy. then suddenly the night that i knew she was in hospital in labor, as i lay in bed, i suddenly changed and knew it would be a girl. very strange feeling. probably merely coincidental. but sure enough - avery minn peters. what a beautiful girl.

three months at my new job and it is in the past two weeks that i have become quite busy with actual landscape jobs. i was involved mostly in the building (houses) part of the business during the warm months. now that it's planting season again, i've been getting my hands dirty. (not really...i am no longer a "laborer" as i told my sister tonight). i've been especially involved in a client out in pine brook, nj. (montville township) they've been so enjoyable to work with - very easy going and excited at just having some simple planting. since it is fall, they didn't want to go crazy with planting but just get some foundation landscape, and then get rid of the awful junipers they despised for so long. a few pictures:

don't judge me by this. i don't feel that the conditions were optimum for creativity - they wanted a low-medium quantity of plants so it remained pretty basic. stay tuned, however, for additions to my portfolio.