The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Last night I finished editing a video chronicle of my 2024 garden. There was so much that I hadn’t shared last year for various reasons and it seemed a good idea to create a close look at the garden throughout the blooming year. I became lost in the lovely images of flowers and the sound of birdsong while editing – I uploaded the video to YouTube and went to bed. This morning, when I stepped outside with Pixie, I was shocked to find myself back in a cold snowy frozen world! Where were the flowers? Where was the color, the warmth, the birdsong? Perhaps reality is all in the mind, the imagination. If so, the garden of my imagination and memory is my preferred reality.
I’m preparing for minor shoulder surgery this week, so this post will be shorter than usual. Until I can return to the page, please enjoy my “alternate reality” of life in the garden.
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OH! Just what I didn’t know that I needed this morning!
Thank you so much for a beautiful walk through your garden and the seasons. It brightened up this gray day. I hope all goes well with your surgery and that you’re on the mend quickly.
Wonderful video of your beautiful garden. I hope your surgery goes well and recovery is quick and full.
You have a gorgeous garden, Lynn. with a wonderful eye for design. Hope your surgery goes smoothly!
Thank you Eliza, what a lovely compliment!
Beautiful video, Lynn. Here’s hoping that surgery goes well and that the recovery is full and speedy.
Thank you Kerry, it was so much visual fun to put it together. Full and speedy sounds great to me!
I am green… and purple and pink and blue and yellow and… with envy. Your garden is beautiful!
Love that Margie! Multi-color envy, the best kind 🙂
Perhaps you were a little too assiduous in putting your shoulder to the grindstone. Glad to hear you’re only going in for minor surgery. By the time you’ve healed up, it’ll be spring.
I’m sure you’re right, Steve! Some wear and tear, supposedly easy to fix but with a much smaller grindstone. And then there is spring, can’t wait!
I hope that your surgery goes well, and you are back to gardening in a trice.
Thank you tootlepedal – I was lucky to be able to schedule it in winter so that I can get back to the garden in spring.
Good thinking.