Fall is a great time to start planting and making plans for your yard, and the American Society of Landscape Architects site is a great place to find inspiring images. I love to look through all of the awards, whether they are large ecological projects, small residential projects, or student work. Click here to find them. In the meantime, here is an image from a winning project from Rumsey Farber in Southampton:

It was such a treat to read the buzz about Rue Magazine’s premiere issue yesterday and then to peruse it. I know I am going to back and pore over it for hours. It was so much fun to see so many of our favorite bloggers and designers featured (I’m not even going to name them because I know I’ll inadvertently leave one out – there are SO MANY!).

When I first started blogging, one of the very first blogs and the first photo we ever feel in love with on Flickr were both from Victoria, a.k.a. sfgirlbybay. It’s been so much fun to watch her blog grow and to watch her switch up her home, especially after she moved! Let this photo serve as a teaser, then, if you haven’t already, hop on over to Rue and check out the entire issue. My only wish is that I could buy this baby in print and add it to the very special magazine issues I keep permanently:

The folks over at DwellStudio are some of the best at styling their products, but I think they would likely agree that this one is a superb example of styling their Chinoiserie Pearl bedding!

image from Rue, shot by Tinywater Photography

So I admit it, I couldn’t help watching The Apprentice last night. Like everything else Trump does, the show is seriously bloated and should definitely be edited down to one hour, but it was a fascinating drama regardless. The teams, divided into men and women, had to design and build an office space in Soho. The offices they were given were full of light and totally open. Somehow, both teams managed to make them look terrible. They threw the word “modern” around and seemed to think that all that  meant was adding a bunch of flat screen TVs, and they seemed to think that “green” meant installing a bunch of plants. There was no attention paid to scale, which was made most apparent by the rugs both teams chose that were thrown willy-nilly around the spaces.

Anyway, did anyone else watch this show? What did you think? By the way, if you want to make a drinking game out of it, drink every time someone says “at the end of the day” or “threw me under the bus.”

Here are a few more shots I snagged at The Ace Hotel Palm Springs this past weekend. It’s such a perfect desert hangout, and again, I cannot recommend breakfast enough, though I must say, I felt about at least ten years older than the average guest at this joint.

I’m not sure I could have asked anyone to place these scooters in a more perfect spot for this shot!

This mid-century modern roofline is just so California to me. I love its relationship to the range beyond it.

No detail was overlooked. There are kitschy tchotchkes and vintage books in the lobby.

This shelf unit above was copied by one of my favorite bloggers, The Brick House, in her home as a D.I.Y. project. Check it out here.

The lobby has this fun natural history museum on ecstasy display.

Love this tile pattern by the pool.

This weekend in Palm Springs I kept finding myself at The Ace Hotel’s King’s Highway for breakfast. Not only is the breakfast divine, but the awesome take on macrame kept cracking me up. From the outside, you get a big clue of what the lobby has in store for you:

Even the globe lights’ cords were wrapped in rope. It’s a small detail that really catches the eye.

I didn’t get too many great shots, but I’ll try to share some more with you later!