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Tree climbers name trees that they climb especially Coastal Redwoods, Sequoia sempervirens.  I don’t think I will ever get the chance to climb these trees at Blake Garden but wanted to honor them in some way. Anita is probably the biggest and the oldest redwood in the garden and it made sense that Mabel, her sister would be beside her. Both women were the original designers and gardeners at Blake.  I measured the diameter of the trees and traced the outline of the trunk with a contour tool. The results seem to be reminiscent of a landform, a heartbeat or the sound wave of a song.

Video Montage:

On May 21, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning (UC Berkeley) held it’s awards ceremony at Blake Garden. This timelapse was recorded from the roof of the Blake House garage looking south-west towards the event lawn.

On May 16th, the Conservation Resource Studies (UC Berkeley) held it’s graduation at Blake Garden. This timelapse records the reception in the formal garden.

This timelapse was recorded from “midnight to midnight” on May 14 from Blake Garden in Kensington, Ca. The view is to the east across San Francisco Bay. Albany Hill is in the middle right part of the frame, and behind it is the Albany Bulb.

A time-lapse of the Blake Garden formal garden reflection pool and grotto taken from 8:47am to 4:42pm on Friday (02/20/09). Capture was set to 1 frame every 30 seconds. Sequence rendered at 12fps  (frames per second).

On January 27, 2009 the Weed Warriors spent a couple of hours eradicating thorn-less blackberries along the upper side of the creek in Blake Garden. Their fantastic efforts were captured using timelapse photography:

Last year I finished working installing the bamboo irrigation system in the Blake Gartden greenhouse, and over Xmas break shot some video of it in operation. Water flows into the greenhouse from a cistern that collects rainwater from the roof of the headhouse. The goal is to water the tropical section of the greenhouse via the aqueduct during the rainy season.