With the Covid-19 pandemic and ‘lock down’ I have been retreating into the garden where I need not distance myself from the emerging green shoots of life.
I have recently added this Latin phrase above the doorway to our garden:
It translates as “it is by living we learn” and was the ‘motto’ of the social maverick Patrick Geddes.
I find that in the garden I can let my thoughts wander, to naturally muse.
It is now late March and camelias and daffodils are bringing colour:
I like to read in the garden and have ‘brought’ some of the words of others into the open:
Our garden leads out to Nineveh Fountain – an ancient reminder that the world is local:
Frogs have been busy in our pond (doing what they do at this time of year):
And the ducks returned early, but just for a few days. No doubt they will return – they always do:
Our dear neighbour Crawford is well. We often chat from garden to garden and I spotted his gardener return for the new season with his barrow:
