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From Sweet Home Alabama to Sweet Home Chicago I am an artist, garden designer and avid gardener blogging about the things I love. Carolyn Choi

June 2, 2010

PICTURE THIS PHOTO CONTEST FOR JUNE

Gardening Gone Wild is asking garden bloggers to enter their favorite work of art for this month's photo contest.  This is much harder than it sounds .  Picking just one of my many hundreds of garden shots is no easy task.


I've always been a big fan of Mother Nature's gardens - wild meadows that I ran in as a young child, fields of wildflowers growing without the touch of a human hand, their lovely heads bobbing in the wind.


I usually carry my camera with me on long walks in my neighborhood.  One day I happened upon a parkway planting that took my breath away.  The gardener no doubt had done nothing more complicated than sprinkling the wildflowers seeds on the ground, watered them and watched them grow.   Mother Nature yielded her brush and a lovelier painting would be difficult to find.




 
                                

Written by Carolyngail at Sweet Home and Garden Chicago All rights reserved

June 1, 2010

GARDEN BLOGGERS' MUSE DAY






 Wisteria woke me this morning,

And there was all June in the garden;

I felt them, early, warning

Lest I miss any part of the day.



Straight I walked to the trellis vine.

Wisteria touched a lifted nostril:

Feelings of beauty diffused, to entwine

My spirit with June's own aura.

-Ann McGough









Written by Carolyngail at Sweet Home and Garden Chicago All rights reserved