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  1. Your garden is lovely even as it fades to winter. I love to garden too, and also to visit gardens when I travel. I seek their sancturay at all times of the year as their beauty and hues change from vibrant colors to neutrals. In DC, I love the Bishop’s Garden at the National Cathedral as well as Dumbarton Oaks formal gardens owned by Harvard, and the Gardens at Mt. Vernon. There seems to be a peace in such places and a sense of sanctury not found in many other parts of a big city.

  2. Nice garden photos. And I love the way each stanza of rhyme and meter in Frost’s poem brings to mind’s eye images of leaves loosening, spiraling, descending, and finally resting on the earth.

    Thanks.

  3. Moved from where gardening is possible to the desert, where calling a monumental challenge is an understatement.

    I’m in withdrawals.

    Nice garden; damn, I’m jealous.

  4. Very nice garden. Gardens take a lot of work. I do some work in our yard (not the same thing), mostly weeding; that sort of thing. This time of the year I will have to spend about 20 hours bagging up all the leaves. I go out with the dogs and pretty soon the cats start coming by, one by one. It’s a pleasant way to spend an hour or two; not 2-3 days 8 hours a day, which is the usual mid-November regimen.

    Key element is that I generally avoid gardening, because, like the poem, I was raised to always be doing something, and something “meaningful”, like reading or writing or planning or dubbing recordings, not to be doing something seemingly Sysiphean like gardening. But the process is itself, and afterwards, you’re calmer, and put the traffic in words into a better perspective. Sleep better, enjoy things better.

    I never thought leaves were a metaphor of anything, except that, as a child, when I saw leaves covered with frost, I always thought of Corn Flakes.

  5. Lovely post!
    While The Husband usually takes care of our garden, this year I planted four lavender plants and they are still doing fantastic. They take full sun and do well in the summer heat, but they are sturdy enough to outlast the mums. And they attract butterflies, too.
    I think I’ll get 4 more next year.

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