This land is slated for a future annex to
the Atkinson Family Clinics, which is the 2nd floor of the yellow
building in the background. (For those who have yet to visit
The Dreamer Center, the first floor is storage and workshop space,
the 2nd floor is home to the Atkinson Family Clinics, and the 3rd
floor is the office space from which accounting, sponsors,
ServiceTeams, and computer support work from.)
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Prior to our purchasing this land, it was an
abandoned site that was used as an ad-hoc garbage dump by the local
community. During the landscaping process, the wall separating
this site from The Dreamer Center was mostly removed, several
truck-loads of garbage was taken out, 40-odd truckloads of clean
fill dirt was brought in and sloped, and grass and trees were
planted.
In the center of the annex site, a "giant flowerpot" was
built from scrap rebar from a design I took borrowed from the
grounds of the Getty Museum in Brentwood, Ca. Four different
colors of bugamvillia have been planted in the center of this
flowerpot, and will grow with intermingling colors up the center of
the flowerpot until they cascade over the outside upper edges.
It will be, to say the least, breathtaking!
The man standing in both photos to add perspective is Sixto Zuleta,
our head gardener at The Dreamer Center.
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