“Gardeners and artists have faith in transformation, in return for which we receive the gift of seeing a little more today than we did yesterday.” A quote by Christine Walker who was a local California artist when we lived there. From her book, A Painter’s Garden- Cultivating the Creative Life. The photo is a snippet of my backyard garden at its height this summer. Being able to have a lush garden once again has been one of the joys of living in Oregon.
The poem is called, “Shade Loving” by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. You can receive a daily poem from her in your email. Her site is called wordwoman.com. The photograph was taken in Lucca, Italy when I stayed there with a friend on an art trip in 2016.