Garden Delight

This year my wife and I decided to cleanup and transform our backyard. Throughout the spring and part of the summer we worked on our gardens in the backyard. We were so ambitious in our transformation of the backyard, my wife Misce nicknamed it "The Park". We did all the planning and all the work ourselves. I mainly did the layout, digging and building the frames for the beds. She planned what to plant as well doing most of the actual planting. Yes, we both got our hands dirty. Our garden has that signature of two minds and sets of hands working on it. In the spacing and layout of the beds and plantings, you can clearly see my fascination for geometry, symmetry, and visual rhythm. In the mixture and abundance of color, exuberance of blooms, shape of foliage my wife's sense of composition is clearly evident. We, the whole family, like the backyard garden. We managed to transform an ordinary backyard that we liked but didn't think about much into a place we fully enjoy. My wife and I've taken to sitting on a pair of Adirondack chairs at sunset and dusk watching the changing colors of the sky, waiting for humming birds, finches, and what ever else might come or fly by. That time sitting and relaxing in the garden is great for catching up with each other's lives as well as just spending time together. At those times when I feel the calm of our garden, I'm glad that we made the effort to build ourselves this place. The calm feeling, the sights of the garden, and the sights and sounds of the animals it attracts make all the effort we put into it worthwhile. It is our special place.