Each to her element

    "My mother in her garden. Trowel in hand planting Darwin tulips by the hundred. Secateurs in hand snipping at roses. Crouched down, weeding, weeding, weeding. Pouring jugs of hot water over the ants. Exhorting Tasker to ever greater efforts. Teaching me the names of the flowers - lovely names like salpiglossis and spiraea Anthony Waterer, difficult names like eschscholtzia which were fun to spell. But mostly I remember her just quietly, happily, brooding over it all, alone in the half dark."

    Christopher Milne, The Enchanted Places; there's another snippet here.

    The painting is Roses by James Stuart Park.

Comments

[Val]

That is a rather enchanting quote to read on a cool evening. Thank you!

[pamela]

Beautiful.