Joe Rileys’s List

1. Give people the finest land, not the cheapest.
2. Bring the water to the community.
3. Every detail is important.
4. Create a vision, first.
5. Make pedestrian movement natural.
6. Knit the edges of each neighborhood together and connect fragmented pieces
7. Don’t forget about basic housekeeping and maintenance.
8. Maximize the natural assets.
9. Think regionally.
10. Build beauty into everything.

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Create a vision first, build beauty into everything.

moon eclipsed

Moon photographed from the Harlow house driveway 250314
I asked Grok to “generate an image of the entire sphere of the earth, western hemisphere, as seen from space in the penumbra of the earth’s shadow so that all one can see of the earth is its backlit glowing atmosphere. The atmosphere filters out the short wavelengths of the sun’s visible spectrum, the atmosphere of the earth should be a primarily reddish hue.” Grok tried.