- Doris Dodd maneuvers her wheelchair from the kitchen, through the garage and into the side yard of her home in Williamsburg, Va. - If you loved the blooms in the home tour of Susan Baten's home, thank Doniphan Moore. Here are some D.I.Y. floral tips from the up-and-coming Dallas interiors stylist. - Drivers routinely slow to admire the blue-roofed manor at the corner of a busy intersection in Dallas. - Sandy Abilovitz found renewed strength in home-grown vegetables. - Part science and part sculpture, Bob Crum's fruit trees look like delicate relatives of their cousins in nearby orchards. - The greenest house in Lewis County, Ky., is a pleasant shade of blue - and a model for future low-income housing. - Dear Angie: - Justin Armour is home. - It seems as though actress Scarlett Johansson had no sooner sold her old place in the Hollywood Hills than she and her husband, actor Ryan Reynolds, closed on a house in Los Feliz, Calif., for $2.9 million. - Nearly nine months after a devastating earthquake, an estimated 1.3 million Haitians are still living in temporary shelters while the country struggles with reconstruction and rebuilding a government, the United Nations said Thursday in an updated report. - Q: Years ago, we were given a very large window fan by my husband's grandparents. It is screwed onto the window frame in our attic, and in the summer, all we need to do at night is open our bedroom window, turn the fan on exhaust, and enjoy the cool night air. - A new exhibit that tickles your taste buds and makes you feel good all over is now part of the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, D.C. - Q&A: DAHLIAS CAN LAST AS CUT FLOWERS - America has had a love affair with plastic pink flamingoes ever since their debut in the late 1950's. Don Featherstone is credited with their creation and proud collectors will show you his signature on their authentic birds. This love fest however has now spread to pink flamingoes of metal, wood and any other composite material you could imagine. - Julia Russell has had the great fortune to live out her passion: treading ever more lightly on the planet, making her home a laboratory and herself an example.
