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		<description><![CDATA[I first met Karen Schwartz at a job site on a cold January afternoon.  She and her husband were contemplating a renovation to their home in Atlanta and something about the progress of a project of mine that she drove past everyday had intrigued her. Very happily, I won the commission and a successful collaboration [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rossdes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14542250&amp;post=861&amp;subd=rossdes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was having lunch with a interior designer friend of mine the other day. While we were discussing what was going on in our lives and businesses, she brought up her upcoming trip to Serenbe.  For readers not familiar, Serenbe is a planned development south of Atlanta based on new urbanist concepts combined with sustainability. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rossdes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14542250&amp;post=828&amp;subd=rossdes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A lost view</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tend to tuck things a way. I was reorganizing some books and came across a photo album from long ago and far away. Glancing through the pages, I found my self reliving events that had fallen far away from my active memory. One of these memories centered around the Fourth of July weekend of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rossdes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14542250&amp;post=792&amp;subd=rossdes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the season of the spider</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons I love Georgia is that it is about as far South as you can go (north of the equator) and still have 4 distinctly different seasons. I find seasonal rhythms important. They help mark the passage of time. A few years ago I termed August the season of the spider. In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rossdes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14542250&amp;post=779&amp;subd=rossdes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Descent into the future&#8230;..</title>
		<link>http://rossdes.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/descent-into-the-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I was &#8220;stumbling&#8221; through my weekly Stumble-on suggestions, I hit upon this photoblog from the Denver Post. Entitled Captured: The Ruins of Detroit, it is a photo essay taken from a much larger book  by French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre. They have very successfully  captured a moment in the decline of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rossdes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14542250&amp;post=743&amp;subd=rossdes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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