Hi Scott I dicover many things while attending Korean temple and reading Sutras. since I have no guidance to reading sutra. I may not understand sutras fully. small portion of words in sutra is some how relate to Japanese garden. I found why willow tree is used around pond also found why willow tree is symbol of long life in book of divination . old photo of Ginkakuji had lotus in the pond , but there is no water liliy now ,and planting of tree and shurb in peninsula are much different than today. planting of willow/ choice of willow came from sutra . silver of Ginkakuji temple and gold of Kinkaji also written in Sutra. I thought "sama" at end of name is pure Japanese word, but now I know it was ancent Korean custom to call Monk. Samma is the way Korean write and pronanceation a little different than today's Japanese. And now I see Chinese temple has stone lanterns, according my a Japanese stone lantern book, Chinese temple's stone lanterns are not exist many. It may be true statement, may be what I saw in photo of Chinese temple could be replica of old stone lanterns since China had many domestic wars thousand years. I see different between Korean and Chinese stone lanterns . and Japanese stone lanters are different than Chinese and Korean. Tanyou sho VS Tagyo sho : now I know which book made miss take and when. It was not Dr MIcheal Dirr. It was more 100 year ago . ( I have to save this part for my future book ) If I did not study sutras my self, I would not understand many parts of Japanese garden and it's history. It took me hundreds of hours and reading lot's more than 100 books. once I can reach to some point to understand buddhism and history, then I have to go back to designe and horticulture of Gardening again. About edzard : He is faceing serious wild annimal problem. Bear dameged his truck already. now trying to get his horses. wolf and coyote as well. He is spending sleep less nights quite some time. Please give him time. I was going to make joke about bear but seriousness of problem , It is not good time for joking. As we get old ( I am talking to you, heheheh ) we gaind experience and read more books and contacted many knowgeble peoples and gained more information from them , and we get stone head/ stubborness ( now I am talking about my self ;)... ) Edzard is well educated, soft spoken man. much different than writting when I talk to him. once I settele in Salem Mass , I am going invited edzard to our home . since your are not very far from Salem, we can get togather face to face, we can know each other well. If I send smell of a good Cuban ciger to INky , He may visit too. while you give edzard time to cacth up, you will find many intresting things in the sutras. If you want to take shout cut and want to know what sutra and where in sutra relate to Japanese garden . I will show you secretly... (I should not tell to every one whole story of Movie, right ? ) Oh ,,Well, it's about time to go to bed..... mike

I have been looking at these floorplans as well and have the same idea as cpartist on the exterior changes. I love the simple, more traditional look of removing the shutters an the extra garage bump out. I love the interior layouts of all of them as well, but am trying to cut corners (literally) to lessen the amount of bump outs in hopes that we can make it work with our budget. There are about 4 floor plans from the same designer that have a similar layout and range from 2000-2600 sqft. Here's the smallest of the floorplans

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