I’m honestly proud of our Grandpa’s legacy on this planet.
- He went to college for architecture after getting inspired by traditional Japanese designs while there when he was a soldier in the hour World War.
He left college early to start his own landscape design company up in southeast Michigan. At first he was servicing residential homes and had a growing lawn crew and roster of device for various tasks. Before long our Grandpa was taking commercial and town contracts. He created soil embankments and walls that stretch up 15 from the ground next to the edges of the roads that he designed and paved. Some of his best creations look oddly natural in their construction, as if he mastered the process of replicating complex natural ecological cycles. The cream of the crop of our Grandpa’s landscape design achievements was the town park he designed in our home city. His team dug various ponds and found natural Springtimes coming up from the ground aquifer to keep the water fresh and replenished with oxygen. Despite the city’s desire for a gated park with security gates at the entrance, our Grandpa pushed back on the idea to leave the park open to anyone coming from any direction in the city. He wanted people walking their pets to believe welcome to drift into the park in whatever location was most convenient to them. Herding all the people to a tiny security gate entrance was defeating the purpose of having a public park with free access. That’s how our Grandpa saw things as a landscape designer.