Muscles and Joints

It’s all about balance.  Those guy wires imitate how the muscles work to keep your bones and joints in good placement.  Most muscles are attached to  different bones on each end (like the ropes are attached to the ground and the tree) and when they contract, that action pulls one bone closer to the other. That’s how joints move.  When one muscle shortens, its partner muscle is stretched and a joint moves.

 Take your elbow for example. The muscles that control the elbow in flexion/extension (bending/straightening) are the biceps and triceps. Most of you are familiar with these muscles. The biceps is the muscle in the front part of your upper arm, and the triceps is in the back of the arm. When the biceps contracts and shortens, the arm bends at the elbow and the triceps muscle

Good Bones = the Hardscape = Human Posture

My computer fried last week just as I had taken a week off from work to do so much writing and organization. C'est la vie!  But I'm able to limp along with some auxillary tech help, so here we go......

Overall structural design is what gives a garden its ‘bones’ or framework. When we say a garden has ‘good bones’ we are usually referring to an engaging placement of the solid, more permanent landscaping features.  A successful hardscape of pathways, fences, arbors, water features, trees, or shrubs provides the armature upon which you build and shape the garden with your plantings. These are the things that remain constant even through the dormant seasons.  They define your little paradise, providing interest and contour, until they are utilized again in the spring to function as support for the movement of the garden when those creeping phlox spill over the walls and wisteria climbs up over the arbors.

Just as the garden benefits from having a good structural design, the human body also needs to have a solid and well-placed framework upon which to