Adriatic beauty spot has reinvented itself as a five-star holiday destination for super wealthy yacht owners In Tivat, the 287 million Euro Porto Montenegro, 80-foot megayachts moor for up to 40,000 per year But there is plenty for everyone with four national parks, peaceful lakes, glorious beaches and a fascinating history

By Emily Payne for MailOnline

Published: 09:16 EST, 15 January 2015 | Updated: 12:13 EST, 15 January 2015

For Radovan Peric and his family, real life is in the mountain, with their forty goats.

'This is the way my ancestors lived, it's my fate,' he tells me, liberally sloshing more home-distilled grappa into shot glasses.

In the thirty years he has lived with his wife, and later his daughters and granddaughter, in this simple home perched on the hillside above the Kotor old town and the bow-tie shaped southern part of the bay, he has seen cataclysmic change, the landscape pushed and pulled by tradition versus progression.

Once, communist-owned factories chugged below; now, ecology is thriving, Peric grows all his own food and only descends for beer, coffee and sugar.

A view over Kotor Bay from the home of Radovan Peric and his family, who live the simple life away from the modernisation of Montenegro

Apart from the odd horror during the Eurovision Song Contest I knew little about Montenegro, except that it sounded green, but somehow moody and grey, in the shadow of huge mountains and of course, that lots of millionaires live there.

Now, daring to dip a toe into the world of multi-generational holiday, I'm here with my mother, and I see that I was right. But of course, that's just the tip of the post-soviet iceberg.

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Emily Zaengle took the reins as the new executive director of Stone Quarry Hill Art Park on Jan. 5 Photo by Jason Emerson.

Cazenovia After more than one year of being run by an interim director, the Stone Quarry Hill Art Park Board of Directors last week announced the hiring of a permanent executive director for the park Emily Gates Zaengle.

Zaengle, 27, a native if Unadilla Forks, holds advanced degrees in both landscape architecture and museum studies and during the past three years has served as both an intern and a volunteer at the art park.

Im really excited. I dont know if its a post made for me or me for it, but it fits, Zaengle said. It will be a challenge, but I love challenges and creative problem solving. Im up for the challenge because I believe in it. And I have a great board of directors that support me and believe in this place.

I cant tell you how thrilled we are, said SQHAP Board of Directors President John Hunt. We felt we needed that long-term look at the future, and one of our five-year goals was to get someone in that executive director position and allow them to take the park through our 24th and 25th years and onward finish out our first quarter century.

Stone Quarry Hill Art Park will host a day of winter fun from noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 24, at the Winner Gallery. Visitors will have the opportunity to meet the new executive director, Emily Zaengle, as well as to sit back with a cup of free hot chocolate and participate in arts and crafts and whatever outdoor activities the weather will allow. The event is free and open to the public, and does not require any reservations. For more information call the park at 655-3196.

Stone Quarry Hill Art Park is one of the first outdoor sculpture parks in the country. The park , which consists of 104 acres of land and more than four miles of hiking trails, showcases the works of emerging and established artists in natural and gallery settings, and offers public programs and educational outreach including exhibitions, lecture-demonstrations, workshops and classes.

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Raleigh, North Carolina (PRWEB) January 19, 2015

Timmons Group, a civil engineering, landscape architecture and surveying firm, announced their merger with Mitchell Environmental. Led by Scott Mitchell, Mitchell Environmental specializes in environmental and soil sciences, primarily for land development and infrastructure improvement projects. Mitchell Environmental has operated in Raleigh for over 10 years. The merge will bring additional environmental engineering expertise to Timmons Groups practices throughout the state while simultaneously expanding the capabilities and services of Mitchell Environmentals clients.

When the opportunity presented itself to merge with Mitchell Environmental we looked at it from our clients perspective, said Keith Roberts, Group Leader of Timmons Groups Raleigh office. This merger will allow both firms to provide an even wider array of expertise to clients, and with faster response times. We are excited to bring Scott and his staff onboard, knowing that our clients will enjoy working with them as much as we do.

Timmons Group has four offices located in North Carolina: Raleigh, Charlotte, Greensboro, and Fayetteville. Notable projects in North Carolina include the Tanger Outlet Center in Mebane, FORSCOM/USARC Combined Headquarters in Fort Bragg, and the award-winning Northside Elementary School in Chapel Hill.

This is the second Raleigh firm Timmons Group has merged with in the past twelve months.

About Timmons Group Timmons Group is a multi-disciplined engineering and technology firm recognized for over twenty-five years as one of Engineering News Records (ENR) Top 500 Design Firms in the country. The firm provides economic development, civil engineering, environmental, GIS/geospatial technology, landscape architecture and surveying services to a diverse client base. Headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, Timmons Group has regional offices across the United States. For more information, visit http://www.timmons.com.

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Chandos Dodson Epley's twins aren't going to grow up with just any pastel wallpaper or Disney bedding.

In early November, the Houston interior designer and her husband Ike welcomed their babies - Ila and John Isaac Jr. - with a nursery she spent four months assembling. The babies, now nearly 11 weeks old, share the snug second-floor space in the Epleys' Tanglewood home. It's a soft, sumptuous room with a sense of sophistication, full of furniture and accessories that will be useful even when the twins get older.

Epley, who started planning the nursery in July, had a couple of challenges.

"The room itself is very small," she says. "It would have been plenty of room for one crib, but it's challenging for two."

Furthermore, Epley and her husband are building a house in Royden Oaks and plan to move about a year from now, so she didn't want to redesign the former guest room from scratch.

"I didn't want to redo knowing I'd be moving soon," she says. "The room was lavender and the window treatments were in place. I really wanted something that was going to work with those elements." Besides, the twins are a boy and a girl, and "lavender is gender-neutral."

Epley found cribs with lavender upholstery at Restoration Hardware; she had a changing table custom-made with a dozen drawers. A slipcovered glider and ottoman provide a place for feeding and rocking, and an tagre bookcase keeps books and toys tucked away.

Epley replaced the seagrass flooring with carpet and put down a "soft and dreamy" sheepskin so the twins can spend time on a soft floor.

"Even though this is a nursery, it doesn't have an overly juvenile feel to it," Epley says. "All of these pieces could go into any type of room."

The babies won't stay babies for long, and it's important to keep that in mind, Epley says: "Spend wisely and put your money into things like the art, the chest of drawers, the bookcase, the things that can move into another setting."

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The home at 620 N. Fourth sits next to an alley, which gives the home off-street parking and a one-car garage. The home also has photo-voltaic solar panels on the roof, which translate into $49 utility bills, regardless of the season.

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The McAdoo home had been on the real estate for sale list for too long when Kathy Cooney of Quakake told her siblings she planned to donate the family homestead instead.

She gave the North Kennedy Drive residence to Hazleton Area Habitat for Humanity in the hopes that a new family would be able to create their own wonderful memories inside the single home with a yard, as she and her siblings did over the years.

Sunday, Hazleton Area Habitat for Humanity held an open house at the home to officially welcome the new owners two adults and two young children who nestled into it around Thanksgiving. A television in the living room played a cartoon as Habitat volunteers, the former owners of the home and the new homeowners mingled over cake and coffee. One of the two young children crawled on the floor, giggling as guests mingled inside, while his sister and mother stayed close by.

Habitat for Humanity completely renovated the entire building after obtaining it about two years ago, Hazleton Area Habitat for Humanity President Tony Sulkevich said.

The homeowners declined to give their names, but said they were grateful to have a new, safe place for their family to live and said the home has changed their lives for the better. They were given a Bible from Habitat and also a gift basket containing bread so that the house would never know hunger, salt so that their life would always have flavor and wine so that they would always find joy and prosperity in their home.

The dedication proved just as moving for the donors as it did for the new homeowners. Two of the three siblings that grew up in the home were present during the dedication.

Cooney said after finding no luck selling the home, she decided to donate it to Habitat for Humanity and on Sunday she said she could easily see she made the right call.

Im just thrilled, Cooney said. It looks beautiful, as tears welled up in her eyes.

Her brother, Bill Minor, also of Quakake, said the home contained many memories for he and his two sisters and seeing the home go to a new family that will have their own memories inside provided his family with closure. For Minor, he remembered having coffee with his father at 5 a.m. in the home before his dad went to work and big Thanksgiving dinners in the living room.

Cooney recalled all the pets the children enjoyed in the home. She said the siblings would always come home with a stray and their mother would always tell them it could stay the night. And 10 years later, we still had a cat, she said, laughing as she wiped away the tears in her eyes.

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