WaterShapes World
This edition of my blog is a bit of an out-of-body experience. I usually write these essays no more than a few hours before each WaterShapes newsletter is released - probably a vestige of my time at Pool & Spa News, where I put off writing my every-issue column until the very last minute so it would
It's that time of year again: I've started organizing the things I'll be bringing to Orlando for the 2014 International Pool|Spa|Patio Expo, and I'm getting close to hopping on the plane and fly to what I've long seen as an odd sort of family reunion. I haven't been to Orlando in quite a while, so I'm taking an extra day while I'm there to get out and about. As I mentioned in a recent Travelogue, I plan on a return visit to
When I come across headlines about technological breakthroughs, I generally decide about reading further based upon the subject's relevance to what I do either as a private person or as a professional - and I have to say that, most times, I never get past the bold print. A couple weeks back, however, I was intrigued enough by
Back in 2007, I helped a friend through part of the process of updating the exterior of his five-unit horseshoe of courtyard apartments. I was mostly there for moral support as he reviewed drawings and sought feedback on features for the common space. He had a vision - a small bowl fountain toward the back, a large
I have the great pleasure of announcing that another major service for users of the WaterShapes.com web site is now fully up and running in streamlined digital form: The WaterShapes Resource Directory, which we last published as a printed document in December 2010 and have been updating
As I announced in the last WaterShapes World blog, this edition of the newsletter carries a new/old name: WaterShapes. It's a proud title, and I'm happy to bring it back knowing we have so much more to accomplish. *** Our mission isn't much changed since we started out in
I was juggling the content of the newsletter you have before you the other day when something hit me: When it first appeared in May 2010, it made perfect sense to call this digital entity "WaterShapes EXTRA" because that was what it was - a bonus package of information designed to
The news media have landed a few blows to watershaping's chin in recent weeks. First there were stories about the fact that peeing in swimming pools is a really bad thing, basically because you shouldn't breathe the gas that rises from the water as
I have a couple things to point out about the newsletter surrounding this blog: [ ] This edition includes the introductory text for - and a link to - the twenty-first and final video in Eric Triplett's amazing "PondCraft 101" series. Eric originally prepared these videos as a means of letting interested consumers know
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