Add file to book
November 29, 2009 by Doug
Filed under Internet, publishing
So here’s an interesting tidbit I learned this week:
1) You can find almost any book on the Net (for free) by entering the book title followed by the word “file” into a google search. They’ll come up as a torrent for downloading.
2) Am thinking what this means for writers and I’m coming into [...]
Garden Bench and Flower
I forget where I saw this combination (a public garden but memory fails and the slide wasn’t labelled) but I rather liked the audacity of the garden sculpture combined with the bench. I’m now rethinking the whimsy in my own garden as well as the garden sculptural elements I intend to install.
A little picture [...]
Post Thanksgiving Resolutions
Post-Thanksgiving dinner notes to self.
Say thanks to and for the Princess – (check)
Resolve never to eat that much again. (check)
Resolve to forget the above resolve (check)
Don’t talk about what you’re going to do – just do it (Check)
Don’t write about stuff that doesn’t interest you because somebody else wants you to (Ongoing and agreed)
Write [...]
Color Combinations
I always liked this slide and color combination and when it was scanned the other day, I was delighted to see it again. Part of the pleasure is remembering the garden (and the gardeners) of Anstace and Larry Esmonde-White. Two fine gardeners and people, they were former hosts on PBS “From A Country [...]
Social Media for Garden Centers
I know there are a great many people telling independent gc’s that they must be on facebook, they must be on twitter and linkedin and … well, you know you just have to be everywhere to connect with your customers.
What they don’t understand is that a good garden center already owns the most powerful bit [...]
Not Your Basic Bird House
I love simple, home-made birdhouses with character. But I also love ‘em when they have a touch of class to ‘em. Here’s one I saw few years ago and just scanned from my slide collection.
November is the Cruelest Month
With apologies to T.S. Eliot, let me celebrate November.
I’ve been doing biz-planning in November for over 30 years now. When I had the nursery, it was a time to decipher the hastily scribbled notes on tags, notebooks etc that accumulated about sell-out dates for varieties, improvements needed and noted in the heat of sales [...]
