by Earl | Jan 24, 2017 | Adventures, Building the Quompound
I took these on my solo trip out to our property in mid-January 2017. I’m no expert on night sky photography, I just set a long exposure and high ISO, and propped my Nikon D90 up on the bed of my pickup truck. Not bad for an amateur! They remind me of this quote...
by Earl | Jan 21, 2017 | Building the Quompound
I’m back from my second visit to the property, which was my first (finally!) since we closed on the purchase at the end of October. Between us being sick, or snow/ice/rain in Arizona, or our other work & life schedules, we’ve repeatedly had to put off...
by Earl | Jan 12, 2017 | Building the Quompound
When we were searching for our dream property, we ended up finding it by way of the parcel next door. For some reason that property was the one that came up in the listings our realtor sent us, and it was the reason I went down this dead-end cinder paved country road...
by Earl | Jan 10, 2017 | Building the Quompound
It’s interesting how a dream can evolve. A few years ago, I got to design a house for a twenty-plus acre site outside Austin, Texas. It was an exciting opportunity, and the client embraced my ideas in a way that produced a wonderful synergy between us as the...
