- 1.The Philosophy of Plants ...
With the lens of a camera I am seeing parts of the garden that before were so easily overlooked ... Like the Red fountain grass having a bad hair day after the rain yet trusting that the sun will shine again.
- 2.The fennel bloom demonstrates a strangle hold on itself as if to remind us just to relax.
- 3.The way the twined vine manages to hold drops of water while finding another part of itself.
- 4.The hung over rose looking like it's had a tad too much of what it snuck from the jug.
- 5.The teeny tiny snail's shell mirrors the spiral of great galaxies. Its own antenna looking like tiny mirrors that reflect the night skies.
- 6.The itty bitty grasshopper seeming to be surprised and slightly amused by the whole thing.
- 7.The Love in a Puff vine reaching out -- for love? The seeds of love develop as it lets itself bloom.
- 8.The tiny spider, having simply snagged breakfast, is satisfied.
- 9.The hooks and the fuzz of the magnolia seed pod accepts a red straw hat to shield the sun.
- 10.'Appreciate our lime green pods' says the Arroyo sweetwood tree, 'as much as the flowers and our scented bark and leaves.'
- 11.Flowers of Arroyo sweetwood smell sweet as well.
- 12.Another tiny snail reminds that 'Blessed are the flexible for they shall not get bent out of shape'.
- 13.The polyantha rose leans on the Russian sage as if to say, 'Support one another that you all may bloom.'.
- 14.And last but not least, 'Bloom where you are planted even if it's on the hell strip.'.