My Wild Garden

 

The joy of a new camera is a new perceptive. Here are some shots of my wild garden.

  Backyard 2013

There is an underground spring winding it’s way though the back yard.  Too wet to plant a garden and the grass is always green all summer long. 

 

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The view from my back garden speckled with sparrows in queue for a morning bit. 

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The critters sharing the sun but not the chair in the back patio.  The patio is a foundling that was covered with an inch of turf when we moved in. 

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Spiders are plentiful here.  We use no pesticides nor blanket herbicides. They can rebuild the web in less than an hour. 

 

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The deer freely use my neighbors yard as a dinner table.  It works for them as the fawns are growing.

 

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Expansion

Austerity is about expansion.

We live our lives like the spider building a web.  We start precariously at the edges, making points to cross back and forth, jumping huge empty spaces . Next we add the big out side line,  connecting though huge leaps of faith the gossamer threads to lines above and around our points. 

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And on it goes.  Till, at the center we are finished.  Then we wait. 

 

Now, my idea of Austerity is expansion.  Moving beyond the wait we can build, create and dream with out the burden of someone else’s idea of what “it” needs to be. 

Austerity is about being in the moment, your moment and you can take it outside the web created for you by “it”.

 

“it”, buy the way, can have any meaning that is important to you.