April 24, 2013
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Back Yard Art
Here’s an unedited picture of my backyard taken through the window screen. I am sitting in the chair at one end of the kitchen table and gazing at our *garden of eden.*
On the far right is a 50-year-old flame-colored azalea that I hope to propagate, since it’s from the landscape where I grew up. On the deck is a container with cora bells and a butterfly bush. On the treads of the stairs leading up to the deck are pots of pansies that have given color all winter. In the upper left-hand corner is a tell-tale sign of the magnolia we planted only 2 years ago. Other hard woods on our half-acre are tulip poplars, oak, and blank. Leaves should be raked up by the end of the month and the centipede grass will take off.
This post is related to online book club discussion of Edith Schaeffer’s Hidden Art of Homemaking.
Link to my review of Chapter 1: The First Artist.
