I finally wrote and sent out my amanobooks.com newsletter today. I wrote about Garden Journals. I’ve always wanted to keep one, but never have. So I’m going to give it a go this year. I have a crazy flower garden in the front of the house. I love it, but I can’t take all the credit for it. The owner of the house before us was an amazing gardener and an artist too! So I try to give it justice and add bits of myself to it slowly.
I found some good quotes for gardening today that I thought also related to art.
Gardeners , like everyone else, live second by second and minute by minute. What we see at one particular moment is then and there before us. But there is a second way of seeing. Seeing with the eye of memory, not the eye of our anatomy, calls up days and seasons past and years gone by.
~Allen Lacy, The Gardener’s Eye
These are tulips that grow on the side of the house. I am sure no one even notices them because they are so demure, especially compared to the raucous burst of color in the front garden. But I love these. They look so wistful.
Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas. ~ Elizabeth Murray
I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.
these look like naked lilies…but are they tulips?
they could be lilies! I thought they were tulips, but I could be wrong! I’m trying to learn all the names of the flowers in my garden. So it would be good for me to go look it up.
hi bri!
i love how you write and you’ve inspired me to get back to gardening again with your last comment – do you really get lots of ideas when you garden? I can imagine – i can think of many artists that garden. i need to find my way back to it…..