- My name is Randy McCabe.
I am a sculptor and I exercise my efforts
in this wonderful arena called nature,
and here we are.
(upbeat guitar plucking)
It's an acre that looks like five acres.
The borderline has trees from my neighbor
so we have that expansive visual.
And I came upon this property in 1996,
it was just on a whim to see what it was like,
because a friend of mine knew the owner
and the last thing she said to me was,
"By the way, it's for sale."
When I walked in, within 50 feet, I said,
"This is it, done, I'm buying it."
And so from then on it was just, I'm here.
Everybody's looking for home,
this is my place.
The whole property is lined pretty much with oleanders,
and I did say not have them, but they're here.
There's about 100 trees.
The mangos and the avocados, the golden shower trees,
and a lot of the citrus, those are fun to own.
This is a South-Asian banyan tree,
it's called an Altissima,
and it basically grows 70-feet high, 240-feet in diameter
and as you see here, these are the air roots.
These will eventually grow down
and support themselves in the ground, and when they do,
they also support the branch that it's hanging from,
to continue further.
To try to grow a garden out here in the middle of the desert
is not easy but the irrigation helps.
I'm actually on the north side of the most southern canal.
Literally it's right in back of my fence,
and everybody south of me, all the way up to South Mountain,
is desert and so it's really nice to have that.
And then a little hand-watering on off days,
that's just the way it is.
And of course there's about, maybe 80% shade here,
and that's a lot.
Over the years, you take down something,
you put something in.
So it's where it is right now and I'm not done.
This is how I trim my trees.
All of them are topped,
it's just a matter of climbing up.
It was for sale, some painter decided
he didn't want to paint anymore,
and I got 'em for a pretty good price.
But as you see, I have a lot of good access to the tops,
not all tops, but you need something,
it would be very expensive to have a tree trimmer
come out every time something happens so.
And the Point Sienna looks amazing from up here.
When the trees got really big,
I decided I've gotta do something,
so now I need another section higher,
and as the trees get higher, this thing gets higher.
And it get more dangerous
but you gotta watch what you're doing.
I always liked the element of nature, plants,
and landscape architecture but I never had a format.
And I always wanted to have a large property,
but I never even considered it.
Even when I was driving out here to look at this place.
I had no idea it was perfect,
and so now I've kind of run with it.
I've done concrete ever since I was a teenager,
yeah my dad showed me how to do it.
And the rebar idea, why you need it,
and how to mix it, you know, the strength,
and how long it takes and cure time,
and what you can and can't do with it.
Concrete's great, concrete is beautiful.
So, I do a lot of it.
When you find a place that hits all the points,
you stay.
'Cause you can travel anywhere.
I'll probably be doing this 'til the day I drop.
I'm not leavin'.
Maybe someday,
but I'm not leavin' as yet.