LOOKING AT LANDSCAPE

I look for patterns in landscape: for a combination of overall structural pattern in the physiography or topography as well as in the patterns of where plants are and how human settlement--the paths, boundaries, buildings, and particularly the infrastructure--relates to the structure of landform and plant communities.

And then I look for anomalies, things that stick out as different from an overall pattern.

This leads me to ask a series of questions: Why is a particular pattern the way it is? What accounts for the anomalies?

Noticing something makes me see something I hadn't seen, helps me discover what cannot be seen directly or only at a different scale, from another point of view. Which prompts me to question further, seek answers, and find connections among what is seemingly unrelated.