Sunday, August 01, 2010

A memory book

Life is a rough biography. Memories smooth out the edges.
Terri Guillemets

Our garden is like a memory book of friends and family.  Grandma Grof's roses bloom on a trellis, year after year.  Succulent seedum....  dug from a dry, city garden of a friend, then  transplanted, grown, and divided..over and over... now fills the yard with it's Autumn joy splendor.  Daisies....several leggy blooms carried home in a paper bag, now wave across the garden, whispering 'summer's here...summer's here...." in white and yellow and green.  The volunteer Cosmos...surprising us annually, dug with a borrowed shovel on a roadside in Oregon, driven across country in an old paint bucket, watered daily at rest stops along the way....showing up in late July in brilliant oranges and yellows...a rainbow lesson in persistence and surprise!  But of all the memories that grow here, I'm a sucker for the white picket fence that shelters the phlox.  A heritage plant, faithful each year, it shows it's face in shades of purple and pink and white.  It fills the air with a scent that attracts butterflies and hummingbird moths  and little children that love to chaise them both!  An American dream itself...our  vintage white picket arose from the discards at a tree dump...sanded, painted and pounded into place by hands that made this house a home. A tradition established...a sight that celebrates summer...and heralds the arrival of fall.  This is a garden with very smooth edges!

6 comments:

kenemac47 said...

'painted pictures, light the corners of my mind, misty water-colored memories of the way we were"... your posts evoke a hazy host of yesteryears. simply... beuatiful.

Changes in the wind said...

kenemac47 pretty much covered it all....love the white background to the brillian color.

Lady Di Tn said...

Thanks for sharing this lovely scene you get to see daily in your garden. Also, the gathering and memories of each plant. Peace

shox said...

Colorful flower make our garden became more beautiful.

Kelli said...

this photo actually made me sigh with a feeling of relief. the color is so soothing. thanks for sharing this. perfect timing.. thanks.

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