Bamboo rake bought for aesthetics.
A neighbor, retired NAVY, taught me how to do the rake/gravel thing.
A new pleasure, dragging a bamboo rake thru gravel. Aaaah, the sound, the feel of rake thru gravel, new body movements, making swirls, curves, lines, intersections, mindlessness; but not. .
Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
4 comments:
You make raking sound like a symphony!
~janet
ps - Did the post on my vanishing threshold. Check it out!
Wonderful observation. The raking of gravel, as you describe, is a form of "soft fascination" which engages the mind in a gentle way, like watching the clouds go by on a summer day. Soft fascination is a wonderful element to include in a design.
P.S. I just googled "soft fascination" to see if it would turn up the right concept and was led to a wonderful article by/about Rachel and Stephen Kaplan about the concept. They wrote "With People in Mind: Design and Management of Everyday Nature", the landscape version of "A Pattern Language". A great resource for anyone who loves to make gardens that touch people's lives. Gardens do have the ability to change people's lives which your blog reminds me each time I read it. Thanks for all you share.
I love the cat and your vignette with the rake. Now I need some gravel so I can explore some "rock dancing" ;)
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