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wednesday morning in the garden

Posted on March 30, 2016 by thirdstoryies

Unfolding.

F said that first. She knows more words than I can keep track of, and is eloquent between her frequent moments of belligerence. I taught her “tendrils”; they seemed to go well with “unfolding”, and they distracted her from using her new favorite word, “nauseating”. The smell in the Ottoman Garden was a bit nauseating, but we chalked it up to rich, organic matter spread amongst the burgeoning tulips. I’ll take “nauseating” over the alternatives any day. I’ll take language over anything. We force feed her words at every pause in our day in the hopes that she’ll have the ones she needs at her disposal to describe the tempests, or calm them on occasion.

“The garden is unfolding,” she boldly announces as she crosses the threshold, and that is enough to carry me through our walk while dodging her walking-stick-turned-metal-detector that she has threaded into the end of her scarf and has now turned into a bow and arrow. She tests me as she wields this weapon through the Wednesday morning walkers. They are not amused, except for one. That lady sees it too. The garden is unfolding, and the observant can see it, and the poets can name it, and the walking sticks are plentiful, covered in spent magnolia and pungent earth.

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3 thoughts on “wednesday morning in the garden”

  1. Brooke says:
    March 30, 2016 at 9:13 pm

    Oh, those flowers are so perfect! Of course I love the one of Eliza’s magnolia tree blooms. We need to get to the garden ASAP.

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  2. Jen says:
    March 31, 2016 at 9:14 am

    Beautiful! I have been craving a visit to the garden so badly, I hope to be able to make it tomorrow morning!

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  3. sue j. says:
    March 31, 2016 at 9:44 am

    yellow trillium! who knew? your shots are all fabulous. we barely have daffodils up here, some scilla. but the va bluebells are 4-5 inches up, so there is progress. here’s to it.

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