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Now third salvages, repurposes redesigns projects such turning dresser drawers shelving units, using starfish embellish chandeliers, shutters headboards. staff handpick their items tend favor real wood furniture. They started cleaning out small estates houses stocking retro vintage found tools, ladders, suitcases, keys, crochet, costume jewelry, books, metal roller skates, salvaged bed springs more. developed there--the trash treasure sort thing. says Carrera. prefer cottage-style dcor, both classic noting partial French styles. areas shopping experience, explains. dont quite fit niche consignment WE LOVE TO FERRET OUT GRUBBIEST ITEMS IN FLEA MARKETS JUNK STORES, SEARCHING HIDDEN GEMS THAT CAN BE RENOVATED OR LOVED AS IS THEIR AGED PATINA. --DANA CARRERA Salvaged light fixtures wait ReDesign. DANA An oversized, hand-carved solid mantel possibilities. 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Aussie market JERRY GREENFIELD ere McLaren Vale, sitting Sparky Sarah Marquis, Carnival shiraz front us. sip vintages, blown ranked worlds theyre practically legends treasures arguably purest expressions soon second-largest importer winegrowing achievement. category, fruity reds capture vividly. shirazes powerful eons youd dare bottle. attended vertical Penfolds Grange ago, drank 1971. cellar. Considering somewhat Australians grapes. grown cuttings late 18th 19th centuries. Unlike countries, greatest ones, blended extensive designated DESIGNATED WINEGROWING REGIONS ENORMOUS, GRAPES WIND UP BOTTLE MAY COME HUNDREDS MILES DIRECTION. regions enormous, miles direction. Washington State. Theyd slit wrists. puckish bottles. Monkey Spider. Arm. Stump Jump. Woop Woop. recommendations, particular dArenberg, Arm Mollydooker, Enchanted Path Rosemount Bin 707. Until gday, mate Greenfield Whisperer. Advertising former Festival. Secrets Whisperer, bookstores. writings winewhisperer.com. 81 NATURES NOTEBOOK keeps together WILLIAM COX alk Atlantic coastlines likely observe scene are. highenergy, moderate-energy low-energy shores. Keys Panhandle represented high-energy coastlines. coastline Pinellas County northern half County, falls moderateenergy category. tip Monroe County. shorelines ever-changing attack winds, strong wave currents, tides storms. High- shores sand dunes, mangrove swamps saltwater marshes. beach-dune harsh environments, tolerant animal survive Johnson, A.F., M.G. Barbour. 1990. Dunes Maritime Forests. Ecosystems ed. R.L. Ewel. Orlando Central Press. Beaches storms waves transport ocean deposit shallow coast, ridges. exposed dries, blows settles stationary obstacles rooted plants. dominant blowing sea oats Uniola paniculata. result, slowly deposited amounts, forming system. landforms moderate- protecting inland habitats human erosion destruction Over dunes expand winds coasts. Vegetation conditions, temperatures, wind, abrasion windblown osmotic extremes caused exposure freshwater rain salt spray. Several pioneer tough exterior thick waxy coatings. adaptations loss. Foremost oats. Without dune exist. railroad vine Ipomoea pes-caprae. longest runners angles shore, modes changes shifting alongside dropseed Sporobolus virginicus, seashore elder Iva imbricata, bay Suriana maritima, purslane Sesuvium portulacastrum, sunflower Helianthus debilis glory stolonifera Taylor, W. 1992. Wildflowers. Dallas Publishing Company. CASUAL BEACH-GOER, OATS AESTHETICALLY PLEASING. MOST VALUE, HOWEVER, STABILIZER DUNE SYSTEMS. beach-goer, aesthetically pleasing. value, stabilizer rhizomes protects erosion. aggressive pioneering long-living climax seasons. reaches maximum burial stimulates deeper penetration horizontal expansion. nutrients decaying vegetation. plant, abundant growth. sparrows blackbirds. 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