Seeing into - Seeing around
I thought I might try to write about the way one sees in a garden. Literally and metaphorically. I also want to address the elephant/solar panel in the room: The giant panels that block the primary view of our garden from the road. And then there's the question of who cares? Who is the garden for? For me? For my family? For others? For tours? Or for the frogs and foxes and ravens? the veggie garden a few years ago Seeing into the space is a complex concept with some very simple basic issues. Our garden sits adjacent to a rural road, where for the most part, people drive by as quickly as they can. Other than the spot that our house occupies (close to the road) and the driveway, the rest of the visible part of our property is our fenced in garden. Everything surrounding that perimeter is essentially wooded or at the very least a line of trees. All of our neighbors are within a few hundred feet. Across the road from us is a forty acre field, rented out for farming and ...