Papacqua Fountain | Garden Stone Water Fountain

Indoors: Whereas many homes in Arizona are on a single level, taking advantage of the large amount of available land, this house is on two levels and incorporates a north-facing glass wall in the great room that frames an arresting mountain view. The main floor includes, on one side, the 1,000-square-foot great room, with its 25-foot ceiling, and a pair of bedrooms sharing a Jack-and-Jill bathroom. Down several steps on the other side are a dining room, kitchen, family room, bedroom suite and laundry room. A curving stairway from the living room leads to a partial second floor with a 900-square-foot master suite opening to a private outdoor deck.

Three new luxury properties — The Setai Tel Aviv (in a former Ottoman prison with Crusader-era origins); The Jaffa (an Aby Rosen recreation of a former hospice for malaria victims) and The Drisco, a revival of Jaffa’s first luxury hotel, shuttered since 1940) — opened last year, within spitting distance of each other. And that’s not all: Add to the mix of this major makeover a new lush Japanese spa, a bustling night life district and a flea market packed with restaurants led by major Israeli chefs.

In the South Bed, glowing Japanese celebration lanterns hang over a waterfall amid a collection of intricately designed pottery. Decorated with lush green, pink and blue lentils, the color palette of the vases evokes the signature hues of spring. Four-foot-tall lanterns are suspended overhead, glowing over the graceful koi swimming in the pond below.

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“The more native plants, the better,” she added. “Native trees provide more caterpillars, and caterpillars are basically food for baby birds.”

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is reminding people that now is the time to look around your yard and put away anything that could attract bears to your property.

Bergh noted that Levi’s jeans had been a symbol of American culture for more than a century, and young people behind the iron curtain clamored for them after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989.

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Midwest Tropical recommends using distilled water in its features because it’s free of dissolved solids, so there is no potential for scale or lime buildup. It also suggests nonchemical ultraviolet sterilization.

Here’s the logic. When settlers were piling up those stones along the boundaries of their plots, they were using property lines that had been laid out according to the surveyors’ compass readings. Using LiDAR images, the bearings of those stone walls could be determined with respect to true north and compared with the surveyors’ magnetic bearings. The difference is the magnetic declination at the time of the original survey. For example, the original surveys divided New Hampshire’s Stoddard township into hundreds of lots with boundaries with magnetic compass-bearings of N80 degrees W and N14 degrees E in 1768. As the land was cleared for farming, owners built stone walls along and within those 1768 surveyed boundaries.

The amount of work spent on the gardens was reflected in every aspect of the display. Mannarino’s garden housed a large wooden structure with flowing white curtains, candles, cushions, and a Tibetan singing bowl. While the show-stopping meditative scene and bubbling waterfall captured the attention of admirers, the details of stone placement and patches of moss tied the whole piece together.

House sparrows visit feeders at the Burgess-Shadbush Nature Center in Shelby Township this winter. Bird feeders are one way to make a yard attractive to birds.