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Repose seems to be in such short supply in today's fast paced world. It is wonderful to find a garden where one can just sit and think, remember, dream, etc.
Lovely verse and lovely photo....
I am finding much happiness in rebuilding a garden for my 99-year-old friend. It was terribly overgrown with weeds, including four different types of vines that had wrapped themselves around, and within three tall climbing rose bushes. I will have hauled and spread about twelve bags of mulch by the end of the week.
My friend is so happy to have her garden back, to enjoy instead of fret about.
Losing weight doing it has me happy, too.
A garden is a great place to enjoy on many levels, sit and think, reflect or just think about the next job that needs to be done. I am one of those that simply can't enter my garden purely to enjoy because within minute I see something that needs to be done, then and only then do I enjoy.
ky..........i wish you lived by me. how old are you? are you a youngun? i was a long and hard worker no matter the temp until i was about 52 or 4. arthritis and teenagers did me in.
'Malignant magenta'. Funny that you should ask that, Barb. Magenta got off to a bad start.
During some kind of Italian war there was the Battle of Magenta, which is a place, a location. When Magenta was victorious in battle it became a popular word. At about the same time somebody - can't remember who - was experimenting with dyes and came up with a reddish purple color, a new color at that time and because Magenta - the victor in battle - was a new word in the news, he promptly named the new color 'magenta'.
This new magenta dye was made using arsenic so people associated arsenic with magenta now. The poor color had no chance at all being associated with a battle and with arsenic.
G. Jekyll, among many others, hated it, said it was an unreal color among natures pure colors, called it all kinds of bad names, but I think mostly because it was something new and had the unlucky disadvantage of being named after negative things.
People wouldn't even use the dyed cloth to make clothes for fear of being poisoned by the arsenic laden magenta color.
well i never heard any of that. i became enamored with those people when i was in college and began to read hemingway. expatriotism was a novel idea for me. i feared they were awfully radical people and because i was enamored with them i feared for my own salvation.
It is a lovely quote. Thank you Sharon for the quote and using my photo. 
