naturalisyic

To me, designing and building ponds and streams is the best job in the world:  It offers the professional rare opportunities to shape beautiful compositions that mimic nature and bring joy to those who spend time near the water's edge.  It's hard work both physically and mentally, but ultimately, it's profoundly satisfying.   I backed into this business while doing lawn and landscape maintenance work during high school.  What I observed on that end of the market was a level of competition so intense that I soon recognized I'd need a specialty if I were to have any chance of pursuing a good career at it.   In surveying the market, I noted that a number of landscaping firms were getting into naturalistic waterfeatures - and that the outcomes frequently looked terrible, even from my novice's perspective.  To get in and out quickly, too many of these operators created systems that bore no resemblance to nature at all:  From the rockwork to the way streams cut through spaces, what I saw just didn't square with what I'd seen in the real world. These shortcomings spelled opportunity, of course, but I also knew that to stand apart from the rest, I'd need to develop my own skills and deliver work that reached a much higher level than just about

To me, designing and building ponds and streams is the best job in the world:  It offers the professional rare opportunities to shape beautiful compositions that mimic nature and bring joy to those who spend time near the water's edge.  It's hard work both physically and mentally, but ultimately, it's profoundly satisfying.   I backed into this business while doing lawn and landscape maintenance work during high school.  What I observed on that end of the market was a level of competition so intense that I soon recognized I'd need a specialty if I were to have any chance of pursuing a good career at it.   In surveying the market, I noted that a number of landscaping firms were getting into naturalistic waterfeatures - and that the outcomes frequently looked terrible, even from my novice's perspective.  To get in and out quickly, too many of these operators created systems that bore no resemblance to nature at all:  From the rockwork to the way streams cut through spaces, what I saw just didn't square with what I'd seen in the real world. These shortcomings spelled opportunity, of course, but I also knew that to stand apart from the rest, I'd need to develop my own skills and deliver work that reached a much higher level than just about