the garden: a brief photo essay for lou
i'm cat-sitting at the moment. while it's a very relaxing activity, and kyle makes for a pleasant enough companion (when he's not sound asleep), it does lend itself to occasional periods of ennui.
this afternoon, i was a little bored, so i grabbed my camera and, in a fit of lou-inspired photography, decided to snap some shots of my parents' and sister's gardens as they begin to bloom for spring. right now, there's not too much to look at, but the few flowers that have sprung forth are like little explosions of colour in a sea of post-winter brown.
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OMG, "not much to look at"?? LOOK at those bleeding hearts and tulips! Those are gorgeous blooms, and when I see tulips like that I am reminded of Johnson's caution about counting the stripes on the tulip. Love your stamens. :)
lou, when the garden is in FULL bloom...well, trixie could host tours. right now, it's just a smattering of flowers here and there.
glad you liked the photos!
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btw, counting the stripes on a tulip? huh? i know not of what you speak. :-|
HOLY CRAP!
That last one reminds of looking through one of those kaleidoscopes, as a child!
I misspoke--it's "numbering the steaks of the tulip." Samuel Johnson used that image to caution the poet against too close attention to unrelated particulars.
are "unrelated particulars" the same thing as "distracting details"?
Not exactly, because sometimes the meaning is in the detail.
i feel confused.
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