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| ABOUT A DAY IN THE GARDEN
SERIES Growing things is as much a part
of me as the color of my eyes. Maybe
I’m learning a few things as a gardener.
Maybe I just like to play in the dirt.
I can recall only one place I’ve ever lived that I didn’t make
some kind of garden.
In any case, I thought of
these little paintings as a chronicle of the small moments in my garden.
Looking down into the tangled pea vines where the newest tendril
has just grabbed a pole. Finding
a baby squash just beginning to show enough leaf to cast a shadow.
One brief twilight glimpse of the moonflower in bloom.
An incredible moment of a red dragonfly balancing on a stalk.
This particular garden I’ve recently left behind after twenty
years of soil-building. No
problem. I’ll just go make
more, with the greatest of pleasure, and have new gardens to paint. new
moments to treasure.
"The
Moon, the dried weeds
and
the Pleiades -
Seven
feet tall
the
dark, dried weedstalks
make
a part of the night
a
red lace
on
the milky blue sky"
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Julia O'Reilly |