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Look what Dan found!  City Woods...in Syracuse!  

"He knows every detail of the more than 50 locally milled trees in his shop. Each has its own story. There's a tree from Thornden Park here. One from Tipp Hill there. The black walnut that's his pride and joy came from Redfield Ave.

"When a tree is blocking a power line or needs to be removed, the city hires contractors to cut them down," he says. "Usually they get made into mulch or wood chips. So I'll pay or finagle to get them instead."

He mills the trees in the "Bone Yard" behind the factory and then brings them to his shop to dry and fashion. It takes about one year for every inch of thickness for a piece of wood to dry."

Anthropologist Geertz suggests that "thin description is an unadorned, first-order account of behavior.  But thick description adds many layers of cultural significance; it confronts a multiplicity of complex conceptual structures, many of them superimposed upon or knotted into one another, which a researcher must contrive somehow to grasp and then to render.  Landscape researchers and designers must also examine, decipher, and appreciate the complex structures and processes that constitute a given landscape or site through reading, writing, and drawing, and eventually through design and site transformation."

"What then are the means and methods that determine thick readings of landscape architectural projects, and what do thick drawings look like?"