Gardens as art

I have been busily finishing up the last page of illustration for my book. But each day must include a few moments away from brushes and paint pots to walk my gardens.

  I've always thought that planting a garden is a bit like creating a painting.

 You start with a blank canvas, then apply colors, shapes. designs and images in a pleasing

manner.

  Hopefully, when you are finished, you will have something quite glorious.

 It is interesting to note how often the paintings in this current book, reflect the "paintings in my garden"

 For example, my fence is almost identical to Mamsey Bears..

    But hers is whitewashed.

We have a little pump suspiciously similar to this one.

As tomatoes grow up a trellis...

Beans grow into a "tree", In the Potager.

Flowers spontaneously "combust"!

 
 In joyous confusion!
Culinary delights please the eye,

   AND the palate

Wisteria and honeysuckle sensuously twist and tangle their way to the tops of trees and rooftops

 

  and pathways are lined in the color BLUE.

 and purple too.

 Gardens exist for everyone to enjoy.

Just like storybooks and art.

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   Is it possible to love ones  gardens  as much as one loves books and stories and music?

  I think so.

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All the sections of illustration are from my book "Mamsey Bear and Mopkin"

and I am merely brush strokes away from finishing the Book Jacket, that is the last piece I usually do.

Next, I have just a few odds and ends to "tie up". Soon, off to editing and then to the printer.