GARDEN ROOMS

"So impertinent -- yet the house "did," for it was the home of people who loved their surroundings honestly."
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My garden is tiny. The gable, below, crowning my head while I type. Crepe myrtles for shade, fragrant tea olive crenellations along the cleyera hedge. (No grass it's my neighbor's frontyard!) "Italy is heroic, but Greece is godlike or devilish -- I am not sure which, and in either case absolutely out of our suburban focus."

My gate, below, delicately tucked into the hedge, always open.

A chair, below, just past the gate

in my potager. A room within a room. Studying in Europe many times yet, I travel farthest in my garden.

Near the chair an altar, above.

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"Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome "nerves" or any other shibboleth that will cloak our personal desire. She loved Cecil; George made her nervous; will the reader explain to her that the phrases should have been reversed?"

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LOL, it is my garden explaining these things to me.

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Once, my garden informed me about a thorny topic, Tara dear your confidence is a masquerade for fear. A changed perspective allowing me to make a better choice and leave the fear behind.

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I'm never bored in the rooms of my garden.

My office window, above, overlooking a garden room. Do you think I ever see my neighborhood?

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I set out to create garden rooms and instead created a world.

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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara

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Quotes from A Room with a View by E.M. Forster