Plants!

This was a great week on site. There were several issues still awaiting resolution including general landscaping, retention pond plantings, and lighting on the site. After much discussion with folks at the town and some of the neighbors those issues have all been solved and we have begun to purchase the plants for the site. We are buying them from a great nursery called Taylor's Nursery in Raleigh. The folks there are going out into the field this week to tag our plants where they grow. They will be deliver mid-November and then we will be doing the installation as a community. If you have any expertise in landscaping or planting and would like to help out with the planning we would love to hear from you soon.

Glimpse: We are beginning to consider the paint effects that we will use throughout the school. Because our children see the world from angles that we as adults don't usually, it is really important that our decorating encompasses the whole space and not just the standard four
walls. For instance, what will the children see when they are being changed? How will we use the ceiling spaces to inspire the children, and or to educate them? Our younger children may spend an hour a day being changed. How can we use the building in that case to enrich that time? Because our building has to have dropped in ceiling tiles in order to meet code we have thousands of squares waiting for us to be creative enough to turn them into murals. What will it all look like?

We are beginning to dream about that now. In the dining room, for instance, we think that the ceiling should look like the sky- maybe as seen through a cracked ceiling??? Or with acoustical tile clouds hanging down at different lengths to diffuse the dropped in lights?

And how about the floors? A standard vinyl tile floor can easily be painted to become the most beautiful and fanciful carpet in a matter of hours. Or a garden? Or a bridge? There is no limit to the wonder that we can create with the building if we see it as a learning tool- and we do!

If you are an artist and you would like to be a part of the planning or the execution of the painting, or if you, like us, are not artists per se, but great artistic support, and you would like to be involved on the painting days we would love to speak to you soon.