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“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
I confess I don’t like gardening as much as I like the result: beauty and flowers all around me. My mom likes the act of gardening, I believe, more than I do. I have, however, inherited her love of flowers and nature.
I have an artistic love for beauty and this drives my desire to garden. The Secret Garden influenced a love for a sacred, silent spot that leaves me undisturbed by others and L. M. Montgomery’s descriptions of nature in Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon led me to look up and love old-fashioned flowers like Love-in-a-Mist and Bachelor Buttons.
After reading my friend Christie’s garden tour post earlier this year I realized I’d not captured my garden at this house with my camera. With my iphone, yes, but not with my actual camera. And so I made a note to myself to do just that.
And so this is what I share with you today. A mid-summer evening in my garden. I hope you enjoy the tour.
Lovely pic’s, vivid colors, good idea to document plants through seasons and years. I do enjoy putzing, the work of gardening. It’s as if I loose myself, loose all track of time, try and create a beautiful picture. I so delight in seeing you garden and seeing little Sophia picking up the "gloves and spade" too!
So very pretty! I do like the act of gardening, but not in the dead of the summer. Ha! Though I do very much enjoy seeing the fruits of my labor. What a wonderful idea to do a tour through pictures, I need to do this!
I agree, in August the weeds take over! 🙂