Last week my mother celebrated her birthday – a good occasion for a short stay at my parent’s house. As it is a family tradition the birthday was celebrated with old friends … and with my fathers homemade pizza – made in his DIY pizza oven! … Famous all around the village! It was – like always – a delight.
My parent’s vast garden right now is in its full summer blossom, its abundance and beauty overwhelming. Veggies, flowers, berries – all of them are hitting their peak.
I used the opportunity of my stay for excessively taking pictures of the garden – to the amazement of the neighbours. Why would someone shoot close-ups of chard? Of a vegetable garden that everybody in the neighbourhood has? I guess – as so often – you really start to value things when you lack them. Besides: Don’t you think there is so much beauty in vegetables?
In between little hidden places, oases of calm.
And there are lot of things to discover – each time I come to visit some things have changed: new plants, new decoration, rearrangements … the love for the details is admirable.
Besides you can see that the garden is not only home for plants but also for animals – more and less suprising ones, I guess đŸ˜‰ …
Yet, I am not naive romantic. I’ve lived there long enough to know very well that nature doesn’t do everything on her own, that there is hard work that goes into this garden – all-season! Planting, pruning, fertilising, weeding, picking, … there’s always something to to – which makes this garden even more admirable.
This will always be my dream garden!
nadel&gabel 
What a beautiful garden, and yes, having been a gardener all my life it’s a lot of work! Love your sewing patterns, I’m hoping to make some bags and that’s how I found you. I love the way you write.
Thanks so much, Nina! I am happy to inspire.