Spirit of a place

I have not noticed such a beautiful park only three minutes walk from my flat!!
This is Fishpond Park managed by Kingston Council. There are many old trees making a sense of place, and the pond is seems to be a valuable habitat for birds.

The Landscape Institute

I went to Landscape Institute Library to find some material for landscape management essay.
There were lots of leaflets and journals about nature reserve over my expectation. Furthermore, the staff of library kindly helped me to find out some articles about critical points of resent landscape management. It was so useful to overview landscape management from different view points.
When I went out from the library, Oxford street was crowded by people enjoying Christmas shopping.

VectorWorks

I drew FD for an exercise of VectorWorks, though no one use this kind of disk in these days. How fast the development of technology is!!

Serpentine Gallery

Workday

On sunday, I participated in workday at Fishpond Wood & Beverley Meads (LNR). The volunteer work of that time was tree planting to create a shrub hedge! As it was second time for me to join this groupe, I could be relax and enjoy this activity. The process of planting is as follows:

1. Dig a hole which is deep enough to cover a roots ofsapling
2. Plant a sapling and cover its roots by soil
3. Cover the sapling by tree-cover to protect from mammal such as rabbits and deers
4. Cover the ground around the sapling with mould

Then, I tried to even cutting tree by the meadow to let in light into woods. The strategy is simple: leave big unique shaped trees and cut young trees obstructing the view to the meadow.
These activities were a good opportunity to learn landscape management, so I would like to continue joinning this monthly workday.