Haiku and Photos

2005

Picturetrail/Green Thumb Reunion

2004

The World is so empty if one thinks only of the mountains, rivers, and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I've moved to a new gardening Zone 6 in Tennessee. My new home is already beautifully landscaped. I'm looking forward to adding some of my favorites from MS. I've always admired northern gardener's Peonies. Now I can have them also. It has rained almost everyday since we arrived. It's like a rainforest. It seems a little unusual for July. The grass is growing so fast it needs mowing every few days. With woods close by there are so many birds. I especially love the hummingbirds and bluebirds.

Picturetrail/New TN Home

2003

Early mornings are wonderful magical times. The horses are out in the east pasture waiting for me to let them in to the west pasture for some grazing. The cats follow me around on my walk to the gates and through the gardens. Then comes the afternoons, I love lazy summer days in the afternoons when there is a soft breeze blowing, and the sky is filled with those huge billowy clouds. There is the wonderful smell of freshly mown lawn (only surpassed by freshly mown hay). And then comes twilight, with the lightening bugs glittering down in the hosta gardens, moving their way up the drive to the other perennial beds. Then there is night, with the strong clear moonlight dancing through the yards.. And this is only summer, there are the three other season that offer their own enchantment.. Each one to be savored. It really makes life special.
Diann
Iowa Z5a
Garden Web Forums

4th Of July

Hibiscus and Crape Myrtle

Hibiscus Moy Grande

Hibiscus Unfurling

Jazz/Caribbean Nights

Penshurst Gardens

Picturetrail/July

Temple of Flora by Robert John Thornton

Timberlake Gallery

Twenty Third Psalm