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the area, as well as making remounting the horse much easier. Visitors passing through the gate are enticed to pause and enjoy the view from two stone benches, believed to be reclaimed rooftop cap pieces from a multistory "old school" house in Southern Ohio. Their unique shape is reminiscent of a warm loaf of bread coming out of the oven; their heavy scale anchors the area and brings permanence to a new landscape. A hand-carved bird bath and pedestal with an antique metal bird is nestled into a bed of Mazus albiflorus across the walk from the benches. A tall piece of quarried sandstone with a lot of natural character was used as an obelisk to signify the transition from a brick walk to a gravel and stepping stone path that leads up to the home. The main pavement functions as a gathering area, a walkway and a tranquil spot to pause and soak in the beauty of the day. The attempt was not to have the area look like a driveway or parking area, but allow for emergency parking when the roads flood. The material we chose was reclaimed granite cobbles, believed to have originated in Belgium and then served as ballast on ships crossing the Atlantic to American shores. Once the cobbles were no longer needed for ballast they went to pave city streets in Cleveland at the turn of the 20th century. After countless years of use and multiple changes in the types of vehicular traffic, the cobbles were retired from street duty and became available for creative projects like ours. Soft lighting effects emulate the glow radiating from the house perched up on the hill, thus giving the site a warm and inviting Top The stone columns are uplit with KLV360 low-voltage well lights with FMW (wide flood) 36-watt MR-16 lamps (Kim Lighting). The uplighting under the stone bench is the same well lights, but with 20-watt MR16s with a 40° beam angle. The down lighting on the walls is 8.5-watt wedge base LEDs (1L6.XXX from Integral Lighting). Behind the wall the Japanese maple is uplit with 20-watt MR16s with a 60° spread (Kim KLV205), and the other mature trees, Norway spruce, white pine and oaks, with PAR 38 90-watt lamps (KIM EL220). The lighting was by Donavin Baumgartner of Vanderwist of Northeast Ohio. February 2013 45