The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 3,100 times in 2010. That’s about 7 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 17 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 66 posts. There were 88 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 139mb. That’s about 2 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was September 5th with 102 views. The most popular post that day was Cultivate-LA.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were WordPress Dashboard, phillipsgarden.wordpress.com, facebook.com, mail.yahoo.com, and en.wordpress.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for conservatory, landscape architecture, haiti reconstruction, como conservatory, and europe landscape.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

Cultivate-LA January 2009

Projects January 2009
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St. Paul Conservatory February 2009

About Me January 2009

Organizations Call for Design Professionals to Aid in Haiti Reconstruction January 2010

Bing Thom’s Sensuous, Tactile Arena Stage « The Dirt

October 13, 2010 By Thomas Kerby in Landscape Architecture Leave a comment

Bing Thom’s Sensuous, Tactile Arena Stage

10/07/2010 by asladirt

Bing Thom’s Sensuous, Tactile Arena Stage « The Dirt.

Popular Mechanics – The World’s Strangest Gardens

September 5, 2010 By Thomas Kerby in Landscape Architecture Leave a comment

The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is the brainchild of architect and architectural critic Charles Jencks and his late wife Maggie Keswick, an expert on Asian garden design. Open to the public only once a year, the 30-acre garden is on Jencks’s private estate in Scotland. It took nearly two decades to complete.

Why It’s Unique: It is not unusual for science to inspire artists, but when that inspiration takes shape as spiraling landforms, double-helix staircases and intricate floral arrangements, the results are outstanding. Pyramid-like landscapes reflecting in a still pond elicit thoughts of parallel universes and swirling mounds of earth look like grassy black holes. Bridges, streams, fences and other installations divide the garden into several areas and link them together. Jencks’s interest in exploring modern physics is not limited to the Garden of Cosmic Speculation, as many of his landscapes morph space and perspective.

: Image via Wikipedia

: Image via Wikipedia

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Oil Spill Having Catastrophic Impact on Ocean Ecosystems

July 7, 2010 By Thomas Kerby in Landscape Inspirations Leave a comment

Source: The Dirt

The TEDx conference on the Oil Spill in Washington, D.C. featured a full-day of world renowned speakers on oil science, conservation, and the future of energy. During the day’s discussions, one powerful statement seemed to come through: the decision to use oil dispersants, which are themselves highly toxic derivatives of oil, may have been misguided. While the dispersants helped break up some oil and may have prevented oil from slicking some wetland and other important coastal ecosystems, they are also creating a toxic ocean soup that can’t be separated into disparate parts. The oil, dispersants and sea in areas of the Gulf of Mexico are now like permanently mixed salad dressing. As a result, oil now can’t be manually scooped out, and the dispersants and oil mix will be absorbed into all nodes of the ocean ecosystems, creating catastrophic impacts for ocean wildlife.