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It's Wild, Man...
Back to Los Osos, friends! My pals and I stumbled across this amazing wildflower garden, growing in what seemed to be a vacant lot.
What beauty! These photos don't do the garden justice ... it was so incredibly colorful, textural, playful - butterflies were having traffic jams over certain patches of flowers. Somebody owns this land and pays a man to do occaisional watering and mulching. What a wonderful thing to do with your empty space! Think about all the lots that sit, languishing - collecting tires and trash. What if whoever owns these voids let them become wildflower meadows? I'll bet anything there would be volunteer wildflower armies popping up all over the country, wherever there was an empty lot with a benificent owner.
These gardens are like fireworks - they are brilliant and exciting - and short lived. Come the heat of the summer, these flowers will go to seed, and the meadow will need to be mowed down - usually native grasses take their place.
But while they are in bloom, nothing is more enchanting...
California Poppies! Oh man, that takes me back to West Coast summers...
I sent you two e-mails but from my main account (full name@gmail.com instead of initial and name @...) so I don't know if you got them! This is all very complicated!
Wow, that is one of the most beautiful gifts in the whole world. What a nice person.
Katef! I'm so sorry - I did get them... I can't believe I didn't reply with profuse thanks!!! I apologize for my rudeness - I'm struggling through a hideous summer cold (aren't those the worst?) and my brain is half offline. The pictures are great! It truly looks like a monster guarding the building. Once My brain works again, I'll share them with everybody...
ps - will you come over and orgnize my pantry? I'll bake cookies for you...
Scrapp, my dear - my sentiments exactly. If you have the means, or even just the space, why not add to the beauty?
Oh good! I just wanted to make sure they'd gone through--I already besieged poor Scrappy with them and am such a pest but seem to have unending technical problems...
Re. that garden, btw, it makes me think of the children's book Miss Rumphius, which you must look up. It's a lovely story about a woman who plants lupine seeds all over the place.
Katef - That in turn reminds me of a bit of garden-lore : there was a woman in Victorian England who loved gardening so much she spent her entire fortune on making her gardens, and when she was poor she still had to spread the garden spirit, so she went around sowing the seeds of her favorite flower everywhere she went. That flower camed to be called 'Miss Wilmott's Ghost', which I think is the best name ever for a flower.