A dynamic garden

I like to liken visiting our garden to reading a book that Katy and I are writing.  If you visit once you would read one of the, say, ten chapters of the book.  Jo was home in June and again about two weeks ago when Janice and Joy came home.  Janice said the chapter (I would say Chapter 8) she read was the most exciting one—the climax of the story of the garden.  Jo read both Chapter 4 and 8 and the difference of which can be appreciated by these two photos.

6/24/12

The first photo was taken 6/24/12 in Section 5N where Jo was planting marigolds whereas the second was taken (also Section 5N) on 8/17/12, four days after Janice and Joy left.

Our garden is dynamic, the scenery changed as time went by.  So if one wants to know the whole story of our garden, read the entire book and come to see us often.

8/17/12

In a letter to her brother, Austin, Emily Dickinson wrote a poem that ends with,

Prithee, my brother

Into my garden come!

“Prithee” comes from “pray thee” which is used to express a wish or request for something to be done; something like “please”.  Let me paraphrase her,

Prithee, my [Facebook] friends,

Into my garden come!