The garden is at its most demanding, lots of rains and some warm sunny days and the growth is staggering. So is the winter kill, it's been a rough winter on the shrubs. The peonies grew a foot in 2 days and so has the wicked weed, [Bishop's weed] where I have been waging battle for what feels like weeks. So on my hands and knees, trying to loosen the soil and not break the roots, my view of the world has changed. The tiny becomes large and the large doesn't exist, other wise the task is too daunting. It's times like this when I think the garden might be too large. And then I watch the ferns unfold.
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| Watching the fern unfold, 2014 |
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| these ferns uncurl their fonds from a tight little ball [center of the photo] amid a sea of violets, 2014 |
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| love the pattern of these leaves unfurling, 2014 |
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| detail, tightly bound leaves about to unfold, 2014 |
