New Book: "In Love with a Hillside Garden"

Our good friends Ann and Daniel Streissguth, with the help of their son Ben, have been working on a book about their spectacular hillside garden in Seattle and it has now been published by the University of Washington Press. They were so kind as to let me practice my garden photography there over the years and several of my images were used in the book. To me it is really a love story- love between Daniel and Ann, and also love of gardening, of nature and of architecture/design.

From the introduction-

"It all began when architect Daniel, then a bachelor, built his own house on a wild hillside lot, developing his garden as next-door-neighbor, Ann, was developing a garden around natural springs in her backyard. We married, and together with our growing son, Benjamin, continued these gardens as we also fought through blackberries, horsetails, and morning glories to push intersecting paths through the adjacent two-lot wilderness we later purchased, creating a little park which we planted and nurtured and ultimately gave to the City of Seattle in 1996, with our promise to maintain it through our lifetimes."




It is also available at Amazon.