winter
January 31
"In the apparently dull months of Winter, we have all the pleasures which expectation and the conception of infinite possibilities can give." Harry Roberts The Chronicles of a Cornish Garden 1901
from: Martin Hoyles "The Gardener's Perpetual Almanack; a book of days." Thames & Hudson 1997
I bought it way back in 2002, mail order as it was then.
I'm not sure but I think I did read it daily that first year, or as close to daily as I could manage back then. What with two small boys, painting in the studio, a house and large garden to run.....These days the almanack is in the downstairs loo and I forget about it until I don't and start reading. I love today's quote for it sums up my ideal garden which has never materialised but is always on the verge of happening. Especially in Winter which to me holds so much promise. I have come to love and appreciate all the seasons since moving to the countryside.
fiddling, playing, working on new stuff (not showing here yet) for exhibition in April.....
Comments
To finding the young girl/woman in all of us. I left a comment on Dee's latest blog post: It was about the protests that we are attending in America. Dee had commented on graduating from high school in 1975. I noted that I had graduated in 1965 a time of conflict and protest. 61 years later, again we find ourselves in a time of conflict and protest. The last words of my comment were these: "In the moment before I returned to my car, I was not the old, gray scraggly-haired green hatted, jacketed crone marching for Democracy but the long haired green mini skirt wearing young woman, protesting from 1965...".
something has to be done
snow has disappeared, the world is green, grey and brown again, subtle shades that hold their own tales