Thomas Wright, Arbours and Grottos

I've just walked back from the library with my latest treasure. One of the benefits of working for a university is the ability to get al...

Habit de Fontainier

Very sorry to be away so long...I've just finished 9,000 words on a seventeenth century Fontainier--fountain engineer---for publication ...

More Outsider Art in the Garden: Roadside Grottoes

Rustic, do-it-yourself garden endeavors, by untrained artists at Pluto-like distances from any traditional art milieu, seem much more common...

On Making Money out of a Rock - the Enstone Marvells of Thomas Bushell

Geoff Manaugh, author of BLDBLOG , posted recently about a Times article documenting the trend for London's nouveau riche to burrow und...